Administration

Superintendent's Narrative

It is an honor to have been selected as the new Superintendent of the Red Bank Regional High School District. I genuinely look forward to working with the Board of Education and our superb staff as we serve our wonderful students. I pledge to provide positive and collaborative leadership while maintaining a student-centered approach to decision-making.

Red Bank Regional High School serves more than 1,200 students with a wide range of interests and needs. The mission of Red Bank Regional High School is to ensure the academic success and personal growth of all students while developing a passion for learning. In our efforts to accomplish our mission, we will pursue those practices that bring best results and we will be responsive to community inquiries about our work.

The Board of Education, staff and administration at RBR have been working very hard to achieve these rigorous and ever increasing standards. We maintain three award-winning four-year vocational academies in Performing & Visual Arts, Information Technologies, and Finance. We have increased the rigor of our courses (adding numerous Advanced Placement and honors offerings), recruited dynamic, well-educated teachers, provided excellent support with programs like our International Baccalaureate Program, The AVID Program, and The SOURCE, (Our School Based Youth Services Program). We have created new summer programs to better prepare students for academic challenges, and provided better transition to high school with the implementation of a Freshman Academy. Additionally, we have furthered the Freshmen Academy concept of a small learning community within a large school by creating four three-year academies in Math and Science, Humanities and Social Studies, International and Cultural Relations, Sports Medicine and Management.

Community support for education extends from a commitment to building and maintaining state-of-the art facilities, to funding and staffing the comprehensive programs that give our students ever-growing opportunities. It includes maximizing our students’ achievements in academic studies, athletic pursuits, the fine arts, extracurricular activities, internships and other applications of learning.

Community partnerships are crucial to the success of our schools. We will be focused on reaching out to area professionals, business leaders, retirees, service clubs, and other community members to form meaningful partnerships that will positively impact our students and our school.

RBR has much reason to be proud, but our efforts will continue as we look to other initiatives to raise student achievement and attract students to our diverse school. As we work together for the success of our students, I invite your participation in our school and in the decisions that affect it. Please take the time to contact me, or any of our administrators or school personnel, with your ideas, your suggestions, and your concerns.

Howard J. Lucks Ed.D.
732-842-8000