Delran High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Delran Township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Delran Township School District.
History
Starting in 1954 and continuing into the 1970s, students from Delran Township attended Riverside High School as part of sending/receiving relationships, along with those from Delanco Township.
To address overcrowding at Riverside High School, efforts to merge the three districts in Delanco, Delran and Riverside Townships into a combined regional K-12 system were rejected in a November 1971 referendum, with Delran Township voters in favor of the regionalization and the voters in the other two municipalities opposed. The school, constructed at a cost of $6 million (equivalent to $ million in ), opened for the 1975-76 school year with 864 students in grades 9-12.
Expansions
In 2008, a referendum was passed, which included $25.8 million in spending that included construction of a new science wing to the school as well as renovations to the existing building.
In 2019, a new fab lab was constructed, replacing an old auto shop building.
Demographics
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 911 students and 78.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.6:1. There were 114 students (12.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 41 (4.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
As of the 202122 school year, Delran High School was 73% White, 9% Black, 11% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% two or more races, 0.1% American Indian/Alaska Native, and 0% Hawaii Native/Pacific Islander.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 169th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 230th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 179th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 155th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 112th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Athletics
The Delran High School Bears compete in the Freedom Division of the Burlington County Scholastic League (BCSL) sports association, which is comprised of public and private high schools covering Burlington, Camden, Mercer and Ocean counties in Central Jersey and operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 658 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022-23 school year as South, Group 2 for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Liberty Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II South for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 480 to 674 students. The school's mascot is the bear and school colors are brown and gold.
