The boys' basketball team won the Group IV title in 1940 (against West New York Memorial High School in the finals), 1969 (vs. Perth Amboy High School) and 1974 (vs. Neptune High School), and won in Group III in 1972 (vs. Lakewood High School), 1973 (vs. Northern Burlington County Regional High School) and 1976 (vs. Woodrow Wilson High School). The 1940 team was down 23-12 at the half in the Group IV championship game and cut the deficit to a point by the end of the third period before winning the game on a list-minute basket that gave the team a 39-38 upset win against a West New York Memorial team that had come into the finals with a 24-game winning streak. With more than 13,000 spectators at Convention Hall in Atlantic City, the 1969 team defeated a Perth Amboy squad led by future NBA player Brian Taylor by a score of 74-56, winnning the Group IV state title and finishing the season with a record of 26-2.