[1] Cedar Creek High School is located in the northern section of Egg Harbor City, and educates students from Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township, Port Republic and Washington Township (in Burlington County).

[6] The facility was designed to accommodate an enrollment of 1,000 students and had two-thirds of the total cost covered by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority; Construction began in Fall 2008 and the school opened to students in September 2010 with 415 freshmen and sophomores.

The Cedar Creek High School Pirates[2] compete in the Cape-Atlantic League, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Gloucester counties, and operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.

[17] In December 2015, the football team won the program's first state sectional title when they won the South Jersey Group II state sectional championship with a 28–27 win against West Deptford High School, defeating the team that beat them 42–28 in 2012 when they faced each other at Cedar Creek's first championship game.

[18] The team won the 2019 Central Jersey Group II sectional title in 2019 with a 31–23 win against Camden High School.