Wall High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Wall Township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Wall Township Public Schools.
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 990 students and 116.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.5:1. There were 52 students (5.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 2 (0.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
History
Constructed at a cost of $2 million (equivalent to $ million in ) and designed to accommodate up to 1,260 students, the high school opened in September 1959 for grades 7–11 with an enrollment of 900. Students in twelfth grade that year attended Manasquan High School, which had served Wall Township as part of a sending/receiving relationship that was ended due to overcrowding at the Manasquan school.
Rankings
The school was the 90th-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 137th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 155th of 322 schools listed in 2010, 127th out of 316 in 2008, and 121st out of 316 in 2006.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 153rd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 12 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above on the mathematics (84.2%) and language arts literacy (92.7%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment.
Extracurricular activities
Wall High School offers many clubs and after school activities, including the Environmental Club, Mock trial, Key Club, National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, National Music Honor Society, DECA, NNDCC: Drill & Rifle Team, S.A.D.D. and International Thespian Society.
Athletics
The Wall High School Crimson Knights compete in Division B North of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore. The conference under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 790 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III South for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 680 to 889 students.
Wall High School is known for its sports rivalry with Manasquan High School in Manasquan, with the two schools playing each other in front of crowds of 5,000 at their annual Thanksgiving Day American football game. The football rivalry with Manasquan dates back to 2001 and was listed at 10th on NJ.com's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football". Wall leads the series with an overall record of 8-7 through the 2017 season.
The school was the Group III winner of the 2019-20 Shop Rite Cup, which recognizes athletic achievement across all interscholastic sports.