Butler High School
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Butler High School is a four-year high school serving grades nine through 12. Butler High School was founded in 1922. Students who attend the high school live in either the Borough of Butler or the Borough of Bloomingdale. The school is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education.
- Hours: School hours: Mon - Fri, 7:30am - 3:30pm
- Handicap Accessible: Yes
- Founding Date: 1922
- Number of students: 603
- Public/Private: Public
- Grade levels: 9-12
- Boarding: No
- Special education: Yes
- Uniforms: No
- Features: Auditorium/stage, Cafeteria, Computer lab, Infirmary, Library, Science lab, Sports facilities
- Advanced placement courses: English Literature, English Language, Chemistry, Physiology, U.S. History, Psychology, Calculus, Biology, Physics
- Extracurricular activities available: Yearbook, newspaper, literary magazine
- Sports teams: There are 22 interscholastic sports teams, including football and basketball.
Butler High School was founded in the summer/autumn of 1903, first graduating class did so in the spring/summer of 1907. The school's 100th graduation took place in June 2006. Perhaps the confusion is from the cornerstone of the 1922 building containing the auditorium on Bartholdi Avenue. BHS once received students from a dozen area towns; when Pompton Lakes HS opened in 1932, Wayne and Oakland began going there until they built their own in the 1950's; in the years around 1959-1962 other schools opened such as Pequannock HS, Lakeland Regional HS (Wanaque & Ringwood), West Milford HS which I believe had Jeffferson's Oak Ridge students shifting there until their own was built a few years later, and Kinnelon HS which then caused Riverdale to shift there. BHS produced one state senate minority leader who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 1969 (Harry Sears), at least one NFL football player (Larry Hand of W Milford who was with the Detroit Lions, at least one Yale graduate who was also a member of the 1928 US Olympic swim team and then taught at BHS for 36 years (Fred Rickman). The original sections constructed as Butler's grammar school in the 1800's burned in 1963.