Ranney School is an independent coeducational, college preparatory day school for students from age 3 (referred to as "Beginners") through twelfth grade located in Tinton Falls in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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235 Hope Road , , 07724 | |
| Coordinates | 40°18′33″N 74°04′39″W / 40.3091°N 74.0776°W |
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| Type | Private |
| Motto | Latin: Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus (Life grants nothing to mortals without great work) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Nonsectarian |
| Established | 1960 |
| Founder | Russell G. Ranney |
| Status | Currently operational |
| CEEB code | 311336 |
| NCES School ID | 00868892[2] |
| Head of school | John Griffith[1] |
| Faculty | 76 FTEs[2] |
| Enrollment | 686 (plus 37 in PreK, as of 2021–22)[2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 9:1[2] |
| Hours in school day | 7 |
| Campus size | 60 acres (24 ha) |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue & White |
| Athletics | 29 Interscholastic teams |
| Athletics conference | Shore Conference[3] |
| Mascot | Panthers[4] |
| Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools[5] |
| SAT average | Middle 50% Reading 520–670 Math 540–670 Writing 550–690[6] |
| Publication | RSVP, The Mag, Taxi |
| Newspaper | The Torch |
| Yearbook | Horizons |
| Endowment | $462,093[7] |
| Tuition | $34,510 to $36,290 (grades 6–12 for 2021–22)[8] |
| Website | www |
History
editThe school was founded in 1960 by educator Russell G. Ranney to help improve students' college board grades.[9]
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 686 students (plus 37 in PreK) and 76 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9:1. The school's student body was 100% (686) two or more races.[2]
Tuition for the 2021–22 school year ranged from $22,000 for Grades K-5 to $32,180 for Grades 6–12.[8]
The school's third headmaster retired at the end of the 2012–2013 school year, after 20 years of service to the school. Since July 1, 2013, Dr. John W. Griffith has been the school's fourth headmaster.
Governance
editThe school is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.[10][11] The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1994 and is accredited until January 2027.[5]
Extracurricular activities
editThe school's student life programs include 20+ sports, 40+ clubs, 10+ Honor Societies, visual arts, and performing arts.
Athletics
editThe Ranney Panthers[4] compete in Division B Central of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of private and public high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore.[3][12] The conference operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[13] With 220 students in grades 10-12, NJSIAA classified the school for the 2019–20 school year as Non-Public B for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 37 to 366 students in that grade range (equivalent to Group I for public schools).[14] The school also competes against other New Jersey and New York City area private schools.
The school participates in a joint cooperative football team with Mater Dei High School as the host school/lead agency. St. John Vianney High School is the host school for a co-op ice hockey team. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.[15][16]
The school has won more than 30 individual and team championships in five years, including swimming, tennis, basketball, fencing, and more. In 2011, the Ranney boys épée team won the state championship, the school's first state title in any sport.[17][18] In 2012 and 2013, the Varsity Girls' Tennis team won the NJSIAA Non-Public B South Championship.
In its first year in the Shore Conference as a B-Central Division member, 2012–2013, Ranney received the School of the Year and Coach of the Year Awards. Ranney Athletics are present in all divisions, Lower, Middle, and Upper School, including twice-weekly swim practice, an after-school RanneyPlus program, and a weekend Panther Cubs program for younger students. The school also has a crew team and an equestrian club.
The girls' fencing team has won two individual foil titles in 2014 and 2016.[19]
The boys' basketball team won the Non-Public Group B state championship in 2019, defeating Roselle Catholic High School by a score of 56-50 in the tournament final at the RWJBarnabas Health Arena, having lost to Roselle Catholic in the Non-Public B finals a year before on a last-second basket.[20][21] Ranney came into its first Tournament of Champions as the top seed, winning against number-five seed Moorestown High School by 62-40 in the semifinals and won vs. second-seeded Bergen Catholic High School in the championship game by a score of 67-63 to finish the season with a 31-3 record.[22][23]
In 2024, Rachel Lasda, girls lacrosse coach and science teacher, joined the Latvian national lacrosse team.[24] Professionally, Lasda has competed in multiple World Championships with the Latvian Women's National Lacrosse Team as a player and assistant coach since 2013 when she first began at Ranney.
Ranney's John Welch won the Shore Conference Boys Golf Tournament on April 24th, 2024.[25]
Campus
editThe 60-acre (24 ha) campus features assembly spaces and media centers, a music wing, two dining halls, two libraries, robotics labs, Innovation Labs (makerspaces), a finance lab featuring 12 Bloomberg terminals,[26] and athletic facilities including tennis courts, a track, two gymnasiums, an indoor 25-meter swimming pool, a 415-capacity outdoor grandstand and press box, training and conditioning facilities and fields for soccer, lacrosse, baseball, and softball.
Notable alumni
edit- Bryan Antoine (born 2000) college basketball player for the Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team.[27]
- Preet Bharara (born 1968), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.[28]
- Kirsten Dunst (born 1982), actress. (Attended through the 5th grade).[29][30]
- Vin Gopal (born 1985, class of 2003), a politician who took office in January 2018 to represent the 11th Legislative District in the New Jersey Senate.[31]
- Jacquie Lee (born 1997), a singer who finished in second place on The Voice season 5.[32]
- Scottie Lewis (born 2000), college basketball player for the Florida Gators.[33]
- Marc Lore (born 1971), entrepreneur, investor, and co-owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves.[34]
- Jessica Springsteen (born 1991), an international equestrian who is the daughter of Bruce Springsteen.[35]
References
edit- ^ Meet the Head of School, Ranney School. Accessed April 3, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e School data for Ranney School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2023.
- ^ a b Shore Conference Realignment for 2018-2019 and 2019-2020, Shore Conference. Accessed November 15, 2020.
- ^ a b Ranney School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
- ^ a b Ranney School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed December 29, 2022.
- ^ Class of 2012 Profile[permanent dead link], Ranney School. Accessed June 14, 2012.
- ^ "Form 990" (PDF). Tax Exempt Organization Search. Internal Revenue Service. 2019.
- ^ a b Tuition and Affordability, Ranney School. Accessed January 25, 2022. "Tuition ranges from: $11,200 to $19,950 for Early Childhood; $23,850 to $29,440 for Kindergarten–Fifth Grade; $32,230 for Middle School and $34,510 to $36,290 for Upper School."
- ^ A History of Ranney School[permanent dead link], Ranney School. Accessed October 7, 2007.
- ^ Ranney School Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, National Association of Independent Schools. Accessed June 15, 2011.
- ^ List of Member Schools, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. Accessed August 13, 2017.
- ^ Member Schools, Shore Conference. Accessed November 15, 2020.
- ^ League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
- ^ NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
- ^ NJSIAA Fall Cooperative Sports Programs, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 1, 2020.
- ^ NJSIAA Winter Cooperative Sports Programs, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 1, 2020.
- ^ NJSIAA History of Boys Fencing Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
- ^ Karn, Jeff. "Ranney, Hunterdon Central, Ramapo win squad fencing titles", The Star-Ledger, February 27, 2011. Accessed August 26, 2011. "Ranney won its first state title of any kind when it grabbed the épée crown, Hunterdon Central repeated as foil champion, and Ramapo continued a long tradition by winning the saber title at the NJSIAA/Bollinger Squad Championships on Sunday at North Hunterdon in Annandale."
- ^ NJSIAA History of Girls Fencing Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
- ^ Boys Basketball Championship History 1919–2024, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated March 2024. Accessed March 26, 2024.
- ^ Newman, Josh, via Asbury Park Press. "Ranney downs Roselle Catholic to claim Non-Public B, Tournament of Champions berth", USA Today High School Sports, March 10, 2019. Accessed November 29, 2020. "On Saturday night, 364 days after that soul-crusher ended Ranney's season, the Panthers got over the hump this time, leading wire-to-wire to defeat Roselle Catholic, 56-50, to claim their first Non-Public B crown in front of a standing-room-only crowd at RWJ Barnabas Health Arena on the campus of Toms River High School North."
- ^ NJSIAA Boys Basketball Tournament Of Champions History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
- ^ Newman, Josh. "Ranney wins Tournament of Champions, outlasting Bergen Catholic", Asbury Park Press, March 17, 2019. Accessed November 29, 2020. "All of that equated to this much-hyped Ranney outfit getting to the apex of high school basketball in New Jersey, defeating Bergen Catholic, 67-63, for the program's first TOC crown. Ranney (31-3) is the first Shore Conference team to win New Jersey's final game."
- ^ "Shore girls lacrosse coach preparing to play in World Championships". Asbury Park Press. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- ^ "John Welch, Ranney win Shore Conference Tournament boys golf titles". Asbury Park Press. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- ^ "Rumson, Shrewsbury Ranney students among those that excelled in Bloomberg Trading Challenge". themonmouthjournaleastern.com. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- ^ Bryan Antoine, Villanova Wildcats men's basketball. Accessed May 18, 2020. "Hometown: Tinton Falls, N.J.; High School: Ranney School"
- ^ Chang, Ailsa. "Meet Preet Bharara: New York's Highest-Profile Prosecutor" Archived April 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, WNYC, January 27, 2011. Accessed July 5, 2011. "If you want to understand Bharara, people close to him said to go back to 1986, his senior year of high school. Go back to a small, tightly run place in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, called The Ranney School, where all the boys had to wear blue blazers and gray slacks."
- ^ O'Sullivan, Eleanor. "There She Is...Kirsten Dunst; Jersey-bred actress is drop-dead talented", Asbury Park Press, July 20, 1999. Accessed May 9, 2013. "Dunst was born in Point Pleasant and attended the Ranney School in Tinton Falls until the fifth grade."
- ^ O'Sullivan, Eleanor. "The Jersey Shore's Starlet", Asbury Park Press, May 4, 2007. Accessed July 5, 2011. "Dunst, who was born in Point Pleasant, raised in Brick, and schooled for a while at the Ranney School in Tinton Falls, has achieved an acting career unlike any of her peers."
- ^ "State Senate Hopeful Vin Gopal on his Ranney Foundations", Ranney School. Accessed January 25, 2022. "The Class of 2003's Vin Gopal, a Long Branch resident, is currently running in the 2017 electoral race for the New Jersey State Senate's District 11, which includes 18 towns in Monmouth County."
- ^ Jordan, Chris; and Radel, Dan. "Jacquie Lee sparks a sensation on 'The Voice'", Asbury Park Press, December 17, 2013. Accessed December 18, 2013. "Jacquie Lee, the 16-year-old singing sensation from Colts Neck and the Ranney School, is in the finals of The Voice."
- ^ Scottie Lewis, Florida Gators men's basketball. Accessed September 29, 2020. "Hometown: Hazlet, N.J.; High School: Ranney School"
- ^ Jordan, Bob. "Marc Lore, Alex Rodriguez's partner on Minnesota Timberwolves, made first mark at Ranney School in NJ", Asbury Park Press, May 16, 2021. Accessed January 25, 2022. "Lore - who grew up in Middletown, attended Ranney School in Tinton Falls and later lived in Mountain Lakes - Rodriguez and pop star Jennifer Lopez almost became owners of the New York Mets before hedge fund leader Steve Cohen won out in the bidding."
- ^ Smith, Joan Lowell. "Concerning animals: Bruce Springsteen's daughter sits tall in the saddle", NJ.com, November 21, 2008. Accessed September 11, 2015. "Jessica Rae Springsteen may be the teenage daughter of The Boss, but when she's in the saddle, she is the boss.... The New Jersey teen, a junior at Ranney School in Tinton Falls, began riding her pony at age 4."
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