Brick Township High School is a four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Brick Township in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Brick Public Schools. The school is one of two secondary schools in the district, the other being Brick Memorial High School.
As of the 2024–25 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,200 students and 94.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1. There were 396 students (33.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 98 (8.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Brick Township High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 15, 2026.
History Students from Brick Township had attended Point Pleasant Beach High School for grades 9-12 as part of a sending/receiving relationship, though capacity issues in Point Pleasant Beach meant that Brick would send half of its students to Central Regional High School starting in 1956. By the 1958-59 school year, neither school would be able to accommodate students from Brick due to overcrowding."Brick Township Plans High School; Completion Date Set for Fall 1958; Referendum to Determine Site", Asbury Park Press, May 16, 1956. Accessed May 2, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Brick students attend Point Pleasant Beach High School. Because of a classroom shortage there half the township students next year will attend the Central Regional High School which is under construction in the Pinewald section of Berkley Township. After 1957-58, however, neither school will accept Brick students.""Brick Voles Tomorrow On High School", Asbury Park Press, October 29, 1956. Accessed May 2, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "A referendum on the construction of a high school will be held tomorrow. The State Board of Education has notified the local Board of Education that because of increased enrollment, Brick Township high school students will not have a school to attend within two years. They have been going to Point Pleasant High School."
Constructed at a cost of $1.6 million (equivalent to $ million in ), and designed to handle from 868 to a maximum enrollment of 1,086, the school opened in September 1958 with 1,000 students in grades 7-12."It Took 2 Years, $1 1/2 Million to Build And It's Overcrowded Before Opening", Asbury Park Press, September 7, 1958. Accessed May 2, 2022, via Newspapers.com "Brick Township used to send its pupils to Point Pleasant Beach and Berkeley Township Regional High Schools. Beginning tomorrow, Brick students will attend this new 36-room $1,600,000 high school.... It will open its 38 classrooms to almost 1,000 students tomorrow at 8 a.m., and school authorities predict the 1,086 student capacity will be exceeded in less than a year.... This year the high school will house seventh and eighth grades as a temporary measure.... The school was built for an ideal enrollment of 868."
The school underwent a $5.7 million project in 2015 that replaced the original boilers and ventilators, and added air conditioning to the school for the first time.Nee, Daniel. "Brick Township High School Getting $5.7M In Upgrades This Summer", Brick Shorebeat, July 16, 2015. Accessed December 2, 2015. "Electrical lines and boilers in Brick Township High School have never been upgraded since the school was built in 1956 – until now. The school is undergoing a $5.7 million construction project this summer, the latest portion of an overall $11 million improvement plan for the school."
Brick Memorial High School opened in September 1980 as the district's second high school, by sharing the building of Brick Township High School, with separate morning and afternoon sessions for the two schools. The building, constructed at a cost of $11.4 million, opened in January 1981 for more than 1,000 students in grades 9 to 11."First day of school a success", Asbury Park Press, January 6, 1981. Accessed April 25, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Students of Brick Township Memorial High School attended classes in their own building for the first time yesterday.... The school district has been waiting four years for the $11.4 million building on Lanes Mill Road to be constructed. The two-story structure was built to eliminate split sessions in Brick Township High School. This year, 1,069 students in grades 9 through 11 were separated from the Brick Township High School student body to enter Memorial.... Although Memorial students and staff had been attending afternoon classes this year while they shared space at Brick Township High School, yesterday they found themselves getting up early enough to start classes at 7:35 a.m."
Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 339th-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.Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014. The school had been ranked 261st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 248th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 9, 2012. The magazine ranked the school 251st in 2008 out of 316 schools.Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 12, 2011. The school was ranked 251st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state."Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 208th out of 415 public high schools statewide in its 2018 rankings (an improvement of 36 positions from the 2017 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2017-2018 , Schooldigger.com. Accessed December 26, 2018.
Athletics The Brick Township High School Green DragonsBrick Township High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in Division A South of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore.Shore Conference Realignment for 2018-2019 and 2019-2020, Shore Conference. Accessed November 15, 2020.Member Schools, Shore Conference. Accessed November 15, 2020. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. With 951 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.NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 695 to 882 students.NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2024–2026, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated September 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024. BTHS's mascot is a green dragon.
Interscholastic sports programs offered at Brick Township include baseball, basketball, bowling, cheering, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, indoor track, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, table tennis, tennis, track, volleyball and wrestling.
Brick Township won the boys Group II cross country state championships in 1959 and won the Group III titles in 1964-1967. The school's Russ Taintor was the individual champion in Group III in 1965, 1966 and 1967, making him the second of eight boys cross country runners in New Jersey to win three individual state championships. He also won three consecutive one mile outdoor state championships and added two indoor two mile championships for a total of eight individual state titles.NJSIAA Boys Cross Country State Group Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 1, 2023.