St. Rose High School is a co-educational four-year Catholic high school in Belmar, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. 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 private and public 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). The school participates as the host school / lead agency in a joint ice hockey team with Donovan Catholic High School and Red Bank Catholic High School. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The school was recognized by the NJSIAA as the Group B winner of the Seventh Annual ShopRite Cup in 2009–10, based on the overall performances of the school's athletic teams which included first-place finishes in boys' cross country, boys' indoor track and field, girls' outdoor track and field and boys' outdoor track and field; second place in boys' soccer, third in girls' indoor track and field and baseball (tied), and fourth in boys' golf, plus bonus points for having no disqualifications for the fall season. The school was Group B winner of the ShopRite Cup for 2010–11, awarded for first-place finishes in girls' soccer and boys' soccer, second in boys' indoor group track and field, third in boys' cross country, girls' basketball (tied), girls' indoor group track and field, boys' outdoor track & field and boys' tennis (tied), and fourth in boys' golf plus bonus