Absegami High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Galloway Township, Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey The student body comes from Galloway Township.Absegami High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 26, 2017. "A most positive and strong relationship exists with the Galloway Township School District which sends students to Absegami High School thus providing a seamless transition into ninth grade." The school is one of three secondary schools operating as part of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District, which also serves students from the constituent municipalities of Egg Harbor City, Hamilton Township and Mullica Township, together with students from Port Republic and Washington Township (in Burlington County) who attend as part of sending/receiving relationships.Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District 2016 Report Card Narrative , New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 26, 2017. "The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District serves the communities of Galloway Township, Hamilton Township, Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township and participates in receiving relationships with Port Republic and Washington Township. The geographic area of the district is the largest in the state, covering 324 square miles. The student body of each of the district's three comprehensive high schools, Absegami High School, Cedar Creek High School, and Oakcrest High School, reflects the socioeconomic and ethnic diversity of this geographic area." Oakcrest High School and Cedar Creek High School are Absegami's sister schools.
As of the 2024–25 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,130 students and 100.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.2:1. There were 487 students (43.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 125 (11.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Absegami High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 15, 2026.
The school has a variety of programs designed for a diverse student body, including 'special needs', a "High School-to-Work" program, college preparatory, Advanced Placement (AP), and performing arts. The school offers 13 courses through which students earn college credits by taking AP examinations, and 89% of students planned to go on to college. In addition, the Greater Egg Harbor District offers Magnet Programs in each of their schools. These programs provide students with specialized curriculum pertaining to a specific field, across their four year educational experience. Absegami High School offers three of these programs, including the Homeland Security and Public Safety Magnet, Computer Science and Network Technology Magnet, and Culinary Arts Magnet.
History Absegami High School was established at the start of the 1972–73 school year as a school-within-a-school inside Oakcrest High School. Absegami had its own independent identity and held classes rotating afternoons, with Oakcrest meeting during yearly rotating morning sessions.Rudinger, Ardith. "Absegami High to Be Oakcrest 'Alter Ego'", The Press of Atlantic City, February 25, 1972. Accessed February 10, 2025, via Newspapers.com. "Absegami High School will be the new alma mater in September 1972 for approximately half the students attending Oakcrest High School here. The name, lifted from local Indian history and recently okayed by the Greater Egg Harbor Regional Board of Education, will be given afternoon school within the Oakcrest building, making official the split-school concept planned since last year by the board." By a three-vote margin, voters in the district approved a referendum by 1,152-1,149 to spend $11.89 million (equivalent to $ million in ) for the construction of Absegami's own building on a site in Galloway Township.McFarland, Donna. "Voters Approve $12 Million Bond Issue for New School", The Press of Atlantic City, September 14, 1979. Accessed February 10, 2025, via Newspapers.com. "By a razor thin margin of 1152-1149, voters in the Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District approved an $11.89 million bond referendum to build a high school in Galloway Township.... Galloway Township residents cast the deciding ballots in the election, voting 626-424 for the new Absegami High School, to be located on a 120-acre tract off Wrangleboro Road near the Garden State Parkway." Absegami High School opened independently in its own building in September 1982.About Absegami , Absegami High School. Accessed July 6, 2014. "For a while, Absegami and Oakcrest High Schools coexisted in the same building until Absegami's own building was completed in 1982. In June 1978, the voters approved the withdrawal of Egg Harbor Township from the Regional District. And in 1979, the voters approved a referendum to build Absegami High School in Galloway Township. In September 1982, Absegami High School opened to pupils of the Regional District."
In 1983, William F. Buckley Jr. and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski appeared at the school to record an episode of Firing Line.
In a referendum held in September 2007, voters approved by a 3,176 to 1,719 margin a plan to construct a third high school in the district, to be located in Egg Harbor City, which would help alleviate overcrowding in the two existing schools and serve students from Egg Harbor City and Mullica Township. Construction started in Fall 2008 and was completed in Summer 2010 at a total project cost of $80 million (of which $59.9 million was related to construction costs), with the new facility opening that September.Cedar Creek High School, Learning by Design Outstanding Project 2011. Accessed July 10, 2011.
Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 164th-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 260th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 238th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 12, 2012. The magazine ranked the school 230th in 2008 out of 316 schools.Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed January 31, 2011. The school was ranked 231st 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.
Programs The school's mission statement objective is to "provide each student the educational opportunity and support that will enable him or her to develop the skills necessary to function politically, economically, and socially as a responsible and contributing citizen in a democratic society." To accomplish this goal, Absegami provides a diverse range of classes designed to help students reach their full potential during their future careers in mathematics, art, wood technology, humanities, and science.
Athletics
The Absegami High School BravesAbsegami High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in the Atlantic Division of the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Gloucester counties that operates under the supervision 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 893 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022–24 school year as Group III South for most athletic competition purposes.NJSIAA General Classifications - Public Schools 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2022. The football team competes in the United Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconferenceAbsegami Braves, 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 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.
School colors are brown and Vegas gold.About, Absegami High School. Accessed December 20, 2022. "School colors are brown and vegas gold. Our mascot is the Braves" Sports offered at the school include tennis (women), lacrosse (men), lacrosse (women), baseball, track and field winter (men), tennis (men), track and field winter (women), swimming (women), golf (men), swimming (men), field hockey, soccer (women), football, soccer (men), cross country (women), softball, volleyball (women), basketball (men), wrestling (men), track and field spring (women), basketball (women), track and field spring (men), cross country (men), crew (women), crew (men).
The wrestling team won the South Jersey Group III sectional title in 1997 and the South Jersey Group IV championship in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. The team was Group IV state champion in 2001 to 2004.Boys Wrestling Championship History 1934–2024, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated October 2024. Accessed November 1, 2025.