Toms River High School South is a comprehensive four-year public high school, and was the first high school established in Dover Township (now Toms River), Ocean County, as part of the Toms River Regional Schools. The original Toms River High School graduated its first class in 1891 and the current building opened for students in 1951. In 1969, when the high school was found to be too small, a second high school, Toms River High School North was opened and South was appended onto the school's original name, and a third high school in the district, Toms River High School East, was opened in 1979. The school day lasts six hours and 20 minutes. Toms River high schools are some of the earliest daily closing high schools in New Jersey, closing at 1:35 PM every day.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,445 students and 104.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.87:1. There were 223 students (15.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 60 (4.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school colors are maroon and White. The school has four mascots: Indian, Indian Princess, Super Maroon, and Spirit. For the 2011-12 school year, the mascots are Indian XLIV, Princess XLIII, Super Maroon XXXIV, and Spirit XIII. The mascots appear at every football game of the High School South Indians, which also feature the longtime "Voice of the Indians", P. David Correll Sr., as public address announcer.
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