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.
As of the 2024–25 school year, the school had an enrollment of 922 students and 78.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. There were 231 students (25.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 53 (5.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Delran High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 15, 2026.
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.Wolk, Mike. "State Tells Delran to Cut $7.8 Million Cost of School", Courier-Post, October 14, 1972. Accessed April 28, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Delran high school students are still being bused to Riverside High School as they have been since 1954. An agreement between the two towns allows Delran to continue busing its students to Riverside 'until the new high school opens as long as we're working on it.'"
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.Andrews, Margot. "School Merger Vote Defeated in Burlco", Courier-Post, December 1, 1971. Accessed April 28, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Voters in fast-growing Delran township indicated last night they would like to join with two neighboring towns in a regional school district. But their neighbors in more-settled Riverside and Delanco scotched the idea.... Delran undoubtedly will have to build a high school on its own, they said, and the other towns will have to build new elementary classrooms. Delanco and Delran High School pupils now attend the Riverside facility, which, according to Superintendent John Bodnarik, is overcrowded." 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."Delran High to be dedicated Sunday", Courier-Post, November 12, 1975. Accessed April 28, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "The new $6 million Delran High School, which opened this fall, will be dedicated Sunday at 2 p.m.... The school, located on Hartford Road, is the township's first public high school. Previously, township teenagers attended Riverside High School."Curran, Karen. "High schools in Delran, Evesham ready to open", Courier-Post, August 21, 1975. Accessed March 13, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "New high schools will open in both Delran and Evesham this fall, but the concepts under which each school was built are vastly different. Delran, which had been sending high school students to Riverside, will open its own $6 million high school with 864 students in grades 9 through 12.... On the other hand, if it were entirely Delran's choice, assistant superintendent Anthony Casale thinks his district might have preferred to form a region with Riverside and Delanco. In 1971, the boards of education in the three towns approved and put to the voters a referendum for a regional school district. Delran passed the referendum, but the other two districts turned it down. Since Riverside High School, Delran's receiving district, was overcrowded, the only choice left was a new high school for Delran alone."
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."Voters Approve $106 Million in School Construction", New Jersey School Boards Association, December 10, 2008. Accessed March 7, 2023. "Delran Township – Passed Additions and renovations to the Delran High and Middle schools; renovations to elementary and intermediate school Total amount – $25,858,780 Amount eligible for state reimbursement – $5,727,695"
In 2019, a new fab lab was constructed, replacing an old auto shop building.Delran Innovation 'Fab Lab' being created in high school's former auto shop, Courier-Post, December 4, 2018. Accessed March 7, 2023.
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.Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014. 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.Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 4, 2012. The magazine ranked the school 155th in 2008 out of 316 schools.Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 14, 2011. The school was ranked 112th 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.
Athletics The Delran High School BearsDelran High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. 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).League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. 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.NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020. The football team competes in the Liberty Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconferenceDelran Bears, West Jersey Football League. Accessed May 1, 2023.Home Page, West Jersey Football League. Accessed May 1, 2023. "The WJFL is a 94-school super conference that stretches from Princeton to Wildwood encompassing schools from the Colonial Valley Conference, the Burlington County Scholastic League, the Olympic Conference, the Tri-County Conference, the Colonial Conference, and the Cape Atlantic League. The WJFL is made up of sixteen divisions with divisional alignments based on school size, geography and a strength-of-program component." and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 514 to 685 students.NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2024–2026, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated September 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024. The school's mascot is the bear and school colors are brown and gold.