[5] Piscataway High School received an "A" and was ranked "above average to excellent" in a recent issue of Inside Jersey Magazine, a publication of The Star-Ledger.
On March 7, 1980, a 14-year-old freshman, identified in court documents only by the initials T. L. O., was caught by a teacher smoking in a bathroom with another girl at the high school.
Choplick then began a more thorough search for the evidence of drugs, which revealed a small amount of marijuana, a pipe, empty plastic bags, a large quantity of money in $1 bills, an index card that appeared to list students who owed T. L. O. money, and two letters that implicated T. L. O. in being a drug dealer.
Using the confession and the evidence obtained by Choplick's search, the State brought delinquency charges against T. L. O. in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Middlesex County.
The newest tenured teachers, Sharon Taxman and Debra Williams, white and African-American respectively, had started working at the school on the same day.
Taxman complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying that the board had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
[21] In 1981, the team won the Central Jersey Group IV title with a 20-0 win against Middletown High School South in the finals.
[23] In 2004, the team finished with a 12-0 record after winning the North II Group IV title against Phillipsburg High School in overtime by a score of 27-26.
[23] In 2008, the team finished the season at 11-1 after winning the North II Group IV state sectional title by a score of 38-0 in the championship game against Hunterdon Central Regional High School, after losing to them in the finals in 2007.
[24] Piscataway football won the 2010 North II Group IV state sectional title by a score of 34–6 over Hunterdon Central; The Chiefs finished the season undefeated at 12-0, marking the third time the team has gone undefeated in school history, and set a program record with 412 points scored that season.
[25] In 2011, Piscataway beat Elizabeth High School 41–34 with 17 seconds left to earn the North II Group IV title for the Chiefs.
In 2016, the team won the Central Jersey Group V title with a 34–13 win against Manalapan High School in the tournament final.
In a two-year span, three Piscataway players were drafted in the first round of the NFL draft- the first high school in history with such a record.
[4] The boys' basketball team won the Group IV state title in 1994, defeating Teaneck High School by a score of 60-47 in the finals of the tournament.
[30][31] The 2008 boys' basketball team won the North II, Group IV state sectional championship with a 58–47 win over Linden High School in the tournament final.
[38] The wrestling team won the North II Group V state sectional championship in 2017[39] PHS is home to the Piscataway Superchiefs, a marching band with a very rich history.
The band has also worked for the Walt Disney Company at the Radio City Music Hall premier of Pete's Dragon and Mickey's 50th Birthday Whistlestop tour at Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan.
In the 1980s, the band garnered international acclaim, touring Ireland in 1981 and 1985 and capturing first place in the Dublin and Limerick St. Patrick's Day Parades on each trip.
They also won consecutive New York City St. Patrick's Day Parades early in the decade, and they continued to be locally successful, placing first in numerous shows around the slate.
Another first in the history of the Superchiefs, the band was invited to perform in the 2002 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which aired on NBC on November 28, 2002.