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Bishop George Ahr High School, also known as Bishop Ahr or BGA, is a four-year, private, college preparatory, and coeducational Roman Catholic high school located on a campus covering 36 acres in the northern section of Edison, New Jersey. The school operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen. The school opened in 1969 as St. Thomas Aquinas High School, and was renamed for Bishop George Ahr in 1984.

As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 804 students and 70 classroom teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1 Students come from Middlesex, Union, Monmouth, and Somerset Counties in Central New Jersey.

The administration and teaching faculty are composed of Felician Sisters and lay people. All 70 faculty members hold a B.S. or B.A. degree; a significant percentage have M.A. degrees and some hold a Ph.D. Bishop George Ahr High School is overseen by the New Jersey Department of Education and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1977.

Clubs and organizations

Clubs at Bishop Ahr include:

Honor societies

Latin Honor Society, French Honor Society, National Honor Society, Chinese Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Italian Honor Society, Tri-M (Music Honor Society)

Athletics

The Bishop George Ahr High School Trojans compete in the Greater Middlesex Conference, which includes public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County area and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Sports offered for men include: baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, wrestling, and winter and spring track. Womens sports include: basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and winter and spring track. Bishop Ahr added lacrosse as a spring sport for both men and women prior to the 2013 Spring season.

For three consecutive seasons between 1984 and 1986, the football team was the Non-Public South A sectional champions. The football team was champion of the Middlesex County Blue Division in 2005, 2007, and 2008.

The wrestling team won the 2007 Non-Public South B sectional championship with a 46-27 win over Holy Cross. Their baseball team won the 1996 Greater Middlesex County Tournament with a win over rival Edison High School, and the 2006 team won the Non-Public South A sectional championship over St. Augustine, 16-15. The school's swimming team won the Greater Middlesex Conference in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2011. In gymnastics, the team captured yearly state titles from 2003 to 2007.

The softball team took the 2009 Non-Public South A Sectional title, shutting out both Holy Spirit High School and Camden Catholic High School, and won the tournament final over Gloucester Catholic High School to win the team's first sectional title for nine years. The team were runners up for the Non Public A State Tournament to Immaculate Heart Academy, losing 5-4 after IHA tied the game with three runs in the bottom of the 7th and each team scored a single run in the 10th, before IHA won the game with an 11th-inning run.

Notable alumni

• Ed Kalegi (born 1967), actor / radio personality / host / voice actor.
• Tom DeSanto (born 1968), producer of the X-Men movies and Transformers.
• Kevin Mulvey (born 1985), drafted by the New York Mets as their first pick in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft.
• Ivette Sosa (born 1976), a member of the disbanded girl group, Eden's Crush.
• Darrin Winston (1966–2008), Major League Baseball player who played two seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies.

References

1. ^ "Staff". Bishop George Ahr High School. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
2. BISHOP GEORGE AHR HIGH SCHOOL FAMILY TUITION PLAN FOR SCHOOL YEAR 2011-2012, Bishop George Ahr High School. Accessed December 24, 2011.
3. ^ Bishop George Ahr High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. Accessed October 3, 2011.
4. Bishop George Ahr High School
5. "Bishop George Ahr High School". diometuchen.org. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
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7. League Memberships – 2012-2013, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 27, 2012.
8. Bishop Ahr High School.
9. Franklin, Paul. "OVERTIME: A LOOK BACK AT THE WEEKEND GMC showed some muscle", Home News Tribune, November 24, 2003. Accessed October 3, 2011. ""Bishop Ahr director of athletics Mike Wolfthal points out that in a recent article about Middlesex County schools that have won state sectional championships over the years we forgot the parochials". So let it be noted that Bishop Ahr won South A championships in 1984, 1985 and 1986."
10. Goldberg, Jeff. NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 24, 2011.
11. Haley, John. "MIDDLESEX COUNTY FOOTBALL BLOG: All-time GMC champions chart", The Star-Ledger, November 4, 2009. Accessed October 3, 2011.
12. 2007 Team Wrestling Tournament - Non-Public, South B, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 28, 2007.
13. 2006 Baseball - Non-Public, South A, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 28, 2007.
14. Iezzi, Bill. "Plate call pulls plug on Rams' hopes", The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 3, 2009. Accessed October 3, 2011. "Ahr (24-2), the second seed, won its first sectional trophy since 2000, when its coach, Missy Magyar, was a junior playing shortstop for the Trojans.... The Trojans, who shut out Holy Spirit, 13-0, and Camden Catholic, 2-0, to advance to the final, demonstrated that they could get their bats on the ball one through nine."
15. Staff. "Immaculate Heart 5, Bishop Ahr 4", The Star-Ledger, June 7, 2009. Accessed October 3, 2011. "Carly Piccinich, who sent the game into extra innings with a steal of home in the top of the seventh, drove in the go-ahead run with a groundout in the 11th to lift IHA, No. 1 in The Star-Ledger Top 20, to a 5-4 victory over unranked Bishop Ahr in the championship game of the NJSIAA/Blue Ribbon Awards Non-Public A tournament at Toms River East."
16. Biography, Ed Kalegi. Accessed December 24, 2011. "Some years later, Ed’s acting abilities were first cultivated at Bishop George Ahr/St. Thomas High School in Edison, NJ during the early 1980s under the tutelage of Drama Director Gordon Inverno."
17. Mets sign RHP Kevin Mulvey, Major League Baseball press release dated August 9, 2007. Accessed June 12, 2007. "Mulvey, 21, is a native of Parlin, N.J., and graduated from Bishop George Ahr High School in New Jersey."
18. Junior, Chris M. "Edison native on brink of stardom", Courier News (New Jersey), March 2, 2001. Accessed March 22, 2011. "Sosa, a 1994 graduate of Edison's Bishop George Ahr High School, found out about Popstars through her agent Gary Krasny."
19. Staff. "DARRIN A. WINSTON, 42, of Clarksburg in MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP", Asbury Park Press, August 17, 2008. Accessed September 4, 2008. "Winston, who was 42, starred at Bishop Ahr High School in Edison before moving on to Rutgers. "

External links

• Bishop George Ahr High School web site
• Data for Bishop George Ahr High School, National Center for Education Statistics

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