Timber Creek Regional High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school for students in ninth through twelfth grades located in the Erial section of Gloucester Township in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as one of the three secondary schools of the Black Horse Pike Regional School District. When the school opened on September 12, 2001, attendance zones were realigned to relieve overcrowding conditions at Highland and Triton high schools.Madhani, Aamer. "School District Changes Borders Redistricting By The Black Horse Pike Regional Board Will Mean Different Schools For A Number Of Students.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 16, 2000. Accessed June 3, 2016. Timber Creek serves students from the southern portion of Gloucester Township.District Home: Registration Info tab, Black Horse Pike Regional School District. Accessed February 6, 2017. "What school will you be attending? All Bellmawr and Runnemede residents attend Triton Regional High School. Gloucester Township residents Click Here to view the District Map."Gloucester Township High School Attendance Areas, Black Horse Pike Regional School District. Accessed February 6, 2017.
Timber Creek High School sits on and includes 32 academic classrooms, 12 laboratory classrooms, a music suite, two art classrooms, an industrial technology lab and a design-drafting classroom. In the high school itself there is an auditorium which seats 1,000 people, a cafeteria, and a library-media center which contains a television studio. The building is fully air-conditioned.
As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,137 students and 89.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1. There were 315 students (27.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 59 (5.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Timber Creek Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 2024.
History With enrollment at the two existing high schools rising from 2,800 in 1990 to almost 3,500 in 2000, the district planned a third facility. With construction underway in February 2000, the school was constructed on a site at a cost of $41.2 million (equivalent to $ million in ). The school opened the day after 9/11 with 850 students, with 1,200 students expected the following school year.Burkhart, Michael T. "New high school takes shape; New $41.2 million school should be ready by September",Courier-Post, May 14, 2001. Accessed April 5, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Timber Creek will relieve overcrowding In Highland and Triton, the district's two other schools, and bring an end to staggered classes.... Ground for the school, situated on 68 acres along Jervis Road, was broken in December 1999 and construction started in February 2000. In the 2001-02 school year, 850 students will attend the new facility, with the number climbing to 1,200 in 2002-03, Ross said.... Still, Black Horse Pike Regional grew from 2,823 students in October 1990 to 3,488 students 10 years later, Killeen said." The school holds a 9/11 anniversary event to mark the anniversary of its opening every year and on the 20th anniversary, unveiled a 9/11 memorial.
Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 182nd-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 246th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 219th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 2, 2012. The magazine ranked the school 240th in 2008 out of 316 schools.Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed March 19, 2011. The school was ranked 250th 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 as 244th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 9 positions from the 2009 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 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 12, 2012.
Athletics The Timber Creek Regional High School ChargersTimber Creek High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete as one of the member schools in the Tri-County Conference, which includes public and private high schools located in Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties.Member Schools, Tri-County Conference. Accessed November 18, 2020. The conference is overseen by 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. The school announced in 2018 that they would leave the Olympic Conference and join the Tri-County Conference for the 2020–21 school year, which would have the benefit of having all three schools in the Black Horse Pike District competing in the same athletic conference.Friedman, Josh. "Timber Creek hopes to join Tri-County Conference, leave Olympic", Courier-Post, February 21, 2018. Accessed November 18, 2020. "Timber Creek High School aims to join the Tri-County Conference for the fall of 2020. Frank Torcasio, athletic director for the Black Horse Pike Regional School District, which encompasses Timber Creek, Highland and Triton, said Wednesday the school has notified both the Olympic and Tri-County conferences of its intent." With 886 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 football team competes in the Memorial Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconferenceTimber Creek Chargers, West Jersey Football League. Accessed September 5, 2020.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 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.
The baseball team won its first South Jersey Group III title in 2008, defeating Clearview Regional High School by a score of 9–3 to take the title game.Staff. "Timber Creek 9, Clearview 3", The Star-Ledger, May 30, 2008. Accessed February 12, 2012. "J.J. Williams and Nate Floyd keyed a strong performance at the plate that powered Timber Creek to a 9-3 decision over Clearview and its first NJSIAA/Star-Ledger South Jersey, Group 3 title yesterday in Erial."2008 Baseball Tournament - South, Group III, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed August 10, 2008.
The boys spring track team won the Group III state championship in 2008–2011, 2013 and 2014.NJSIAA Boys Spring Track Summary of Group Titles, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 1, 2023. The team won Olympic Conference, South Jersey Group III championships and New Jersey Group III state championships every year from 2008 to 2011.Marrella, Richard J. "Five Things You Need to Know About ... Timber Creek Track and Field: Spring has sprung, and out of the starting blocks comes Timber Creek's highly rated track program", GloucesterTownshipPatch, April 8, 2011. Accessed February 12, 2012. "Timber Creek's boys' track team has had tremendous success in recent years, having been the Olympic Conference champions, South Jersey Group 3 champions and the New Jersey State Group 3 Champions for the last three years (2008, 2009, 2010)." In the 2008-09 winter track season the 4x4 relay team of Derrick Henry, Allen Jackson, Saliym Starkey and Damiere Byrd ran an indoor record with the time of 3:21. In the 55, Damiere Byrd was named the fastest in Group III, ran the fastest time in the state, the fastest for a sophomore and a time that ranked eighth nationally, and he won the Group II titles in the 100, 200 and 400 meters in 2010.
The boys' wrestling team won the South Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012.Boys Wrestling Championship History: 1934–2025, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated February 2026. Accessed March 1, 2026. The team won their first sectional title in 2008, defeating second-seeded Hammonton High School in a close battle coming down to the last match, making it 30–29.Staff. "S. Jersey Boys: Timber Creek tops Hammonton for mat crown", The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 16, 2008. Accessed June 5, 2011. "Trailing Hammonton by 29-25 with one bout left in the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 3 final, visiting Timber Creek managed to tie the match when Lowry decisioned Alex Zeborowski. And by virtue of having two pins to Hammonton's one, the Chargers took the meet..."
The football team won the South Jersey Group III state sectional title in 2011 and won the South Jersey Group IV title in 2012 and 2016.NJSIAA Football History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 1, 2023. The team finished 12–0 in 2011 after winning the South Jersey Group III championship game at Rowan University with a 33–7 win against Hammonton High School.Lulgjuraj, Susan. "Hammonton commits five turnovers, falls to Timber Creek in South Jersey final", The Press of Atlantic City, December 3, 2011. Accessed February 22, 2011. "Hammonton High School lost to Timber Creek 33-7 in the South Jersey Group III football title game on Saturday at Rowan University. The Blue Devils (9-3) committed five turnovers, including three that led to touchdowns for Timber Creek (12-0)." In 2016, the football team finished the season 12–0, winning the South Jersey Group IV state sectional championship by a score of 31–10 against Lenape High School in the tournament final.Evans, Bill. "Pick, finger-tip catch changed momentum for Timber Creek in comeback win", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, December 4, 2016. Accessed December 11, 2016. "The Timber Creek High School football team trailed Lenape, 10-0, but Charger wide receiver/defensive back Dante Waugh-Hill said he knew Sunday's South Jersey Group 4 final was over.... The momentum had changed and it never went back Lenape's way as Timber Creek scored the final 31 points in a 31-10 victory.... While a team might get the better of them for a while, nobody was able to do it for 48 minutes as Timber Creek finished 12-0."