St. Rose High School

St. Rose High School is a co-educational four-year Catholic high school in Belmar, in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The school operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton. The school was founded in 1923 by the Parish of St. Rose and the Sisters of St. Joseph. As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 411 students and 52 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.6:1. The school's student body was 90.5% (372) White, 4.6% (19) Hispanic 2.2% (9) Asian, 1.9% (8) Black and 0.7% (3) two or more races. St. Rose High School has been accredited by AdvancED. Athletics The St. Rose High School Purple Roses compete in Division A Central of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 339 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Non-Public B for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 37 to 366 students in that grade range (equivalent to Group II for public schools).