St. Rose High School is a co-educational four-year Catholic high school in Belmar, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The school operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton. The school was founded in 1923 by the Parish of St. Rose and the Sisters of St. Joseph.
As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 485 students and 36.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.2:1. The school's student body was 90.7% White, 4.5% Asian, 2.1% Hispanic, 1.7% Black, 0.2% Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander and 0.8% two or more races.
St. Rose High School has been accredited by AdvancED.
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Athletics
The St. Rose High School Purple Roses compete in the Shore Conference, an athletic conference made up of private and public high schools centered at the Northern Jersey Shore. All schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County and Ocean County. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).
The school is the host school / lead agency for a joint ice hockey program in partnership with Donovan Catholic High School, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2018-19 school year.
The school was recognized by the NJSIAA as the Group B winner of the Seventh Annual ShopRite Cup in 2009-10, based on the overall performances of the school's athletic teams which included first-place finishes in boys' cross country, boys' indoor track and field, girls' outdoor track and field and boys' outdoor track and field; second place in boys' soccer, third in girls' indoor track and field and baseball (tied), and fourth in boys' golf, plus bonus points for having no disqualifications for the fall season. The school was Group B winner of the ShopRite Cup for 2010-11, awarded for first-place finishes in in girls' soccer and boys' soccer, second in boys' indoor group track and field, third in boys' cross country, girls' basketball (tied), girls' indoor group track and field, boys' outdoor track & field and boys' tennis (tied), and fourth in boys' golf plus bonus points for having no disqualifications for the fall and spring seasons.
The girls' basketball team won the Parochial South B state sectional championship in 2000 with a 66-40 win over Sacred Heart High School in the tournament final. The 2004 won the South B state sectional title with a 47-36 win against Holy Spirit High School in the tournament final.
The 2002 boys' basketball team won the Parochial South B state sectional championship with a 67-46 win over Wildwood Catholic High School in the tournament final. The 2004 team repeated the victory in the South Parochial B state sectionals, taking the title with a 58-46 win over Wildwood Catholic.
The boys won the Non-Public Group B title in 1949 and 1962 (over Immaculate Conception High School of Montclair), in 1963 (vs. Phillipsburg Catholic High School) and in both 1966 and 1977 (against Our Lady of the Valley of Orange). The girls' basketball team won the Non-Public Group A title in 1983 (over Paramus Catholic High School), won the Group II state championship in 1976 (against Lyndhurst High School) and 1977 (vs. Union Catholic Regional High School) and the Group B titles in 1993 (against DePaul Catholic High School of Wayne) and in 1998 and 2000 (vs. Marist High School of Bayonne in both years).
The greatest boys player in school history is Bob Verga, a prolific scorer at both St. Rose and Duke University who went on to play in the now-defunct ABA and hooked on with at least one NBA team post-merger. He set a state record with 1,033 points scored during his senior year at St. Rose and led his team to consecutive state championship in 1962, when he scored the winning points in a game against Phillipsburg Catholic High School despite being triple teamed, and again in his senior year in 1963.
In 2002, the boys' soccer team took the South Parochial B state sectional championship with a 5-0 win against Wildwood Catholic High School.
The tennis team won the 2000 South B sectional state championship with a 4-1 win against Sacred Heart High School.
The 2005 baseball team won the South Jersey Non-Public B state sectional title with a 10-3 win over St. Joseph High School of Hammonton, New Jersey, with nine of the runs coming with two outs in the sixth inning. The 2005 team won the Non-Public B state championship over Morristown-Beard School by a score of 4-0, with pitcher Anthony Ranaudo throwing a complete game two-hitter and hitting a first inning three-run home run that gave St. Rose all the runs it needed.
The boys cross country team was the subject of the 2007 book God on the Starting Line: The Triumph of a Catholic School Running Team and Its Jewish Coach by Marc Bloom.
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Notable alumni
- Nicole Atkins (born 1978), singer.
- Bill Carmody (born 1951), college basketball coach.
- Marlene Lynch Ford (born 1954, class of 1972), politician, prosecutor and jurist who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1984 to 1992.
- Tim Hauser (1941-2014), founding member of pop-jazz quartet The Manhattan Transfer.
- Ken Lolla (born c. 1962, class of 1980), head coach of the Louisville Cardinals men's soccer team, author and speaker who was a 1980 High School All-American for St. Rose.
- Tom McGowan (born 1959), actor.
- Anthony Ranaudo (born 1989), MLB pitcher for the Texas Rangers.
- Bob Verga (born 1945), former professional basketball player.
- Tommy West (born 1942), record producer and singer-songwriter who co-founded The Criterions with Tim Hauser, a predecessor to The Manhattan Transfer.
References
External links
- St. Rose High School
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