Girls VolleyballNew Postseason Procedures and Classifications for Girls Volleyball By Bigstatesports August 20, 2026 By, Josh Wilets New to the 2026-2027 school year, the NJSIAA has updated the structure of the postseason as it pertains to sections and bracketing. In addition, school classifications based on enrollment and have also been refreshed for this season. POSTSEASON STRUCTURE: This season, there will be a large restructure as to how the NJSIAA state tournament will be set up. In the public ranks, there will no longer be Sections within a group. For instance, take group 1. Section 1 and section 2 will now be combined to form North 1. The same goes for groups 2, 3 and 4. There will no longer be a group semifinal round, which would have featured Section 1 and section 2 for the North, for instance. For group 1, 20 teams will quality in the North and 20 in the South. Four play-in games will take place, following this seeding layout: 16 vs 17, 13 vs 20, 15 vs 18 and 14 vs 19. All other groups will qualify 16 teams from each of the North and the South and will follow standard seeding procedures. For non-public schools, the structure is as follows: North group A, North group B, South group A and South group B. North A will play North B, and South A will play South B as in years past. Typically, if less than 20 (group 1) or 16 (all other groups) qualify, the highest remaining teams may receive a bye. Last season, 11 teams qualified in North non-public B. The top 5 teams received a bye round. In terms of power points, the top 17 highest power-point results for a given team will determine seeding. In the past, it has been the best 16 and has since increased starting this season. What hasn’t changed is the length of the matches. All NJSIAA state volleyball tournament matches will be played to a best-of-5 match-length. CLASSIFICATIONS: (teams in BOLD are Charter/Co-Op programs) North 1 BelovED Charter Bergen Charter Bogota Butler Caldwell Cedar Grove College Achieve Paterson Cresskill Dumont Elmwood Park Emerson Empowerment Charter Gateway Charter Glen Ridge Glen Rock Hanover Park Hasbrouck Heights Hawthorne Hoboken Charter Indian Hills Jefferson Kinnelon Midland Park Mountain Lakes Newark Lab New Milford North Arlington Palisades Park Park Ridge Passaic Charter Paterson Arts & Science Charter Paterson Charter School Science & Technology Pequannock Ramsey Ridgefield Rutherford Saddle Brook Secaucus Verona Waldwick Wallington Weehawken West Caldwell Tech Whippany Park Wood-Ridge North 2 Becton Demarest Dover Dwight-Morrow Hackettstown Harrison High Point Hoboken Lakeland Leonia Lodi Lyndhurst Madison Mahwah Manchester Regional Mendham Montville Morris Tech Newark Collegiate Paramus Parsippany Pascack Hills Pascack Valley Passaic Valley Ridgefield Park River Dell Science Park Sparta Vernon Warren Hills West Milford West Morris Central West Side Westwood North 3 Belleville Bergenfield Central Chatham Cliffside Park Cranford Ferris Fort Lee Garfield Millburn Morris Hills Morris Knolls Mount Olive North Hunterdon Northern Highlands Nutley Old Tappan Orange Parsippany Hills Payne Tech Rahway Ramapo Randolph Ridge Roxbury Scotch Plains-Fanwood Shabazz Summit Teaneck Tenafly Wayne Hills Wayne Valley West Essex North 4 Barringer Bayonne Bergen Tech Bloomfield Bridgewater-Raritan Clifton Columbia Dickinson East Orange Elizabeth Fair Lawn Hackensack Irvington Kearny Linden Livingston Memorial Montclair Morristown Newark East Side North Bergen North Star Academy Passaic Passaic Tech Paterson Eastside Paterson Kennedy Phillipsburg Plainfield Ridgewood Union Union City Watchung Hills West Orange Westfield South 1 American History Arts Asbury Park Bard Bernards Bound Brook Buena Burlington Camden Camden Eastside Cape May Tech Central Jersey College Charter College Achieve Central Charter Collingswood Dayton Delaware Valley Florence Foundation Collegiate Highland Park Johnson Keyport/Henry Hudson KIPP Cooper Norcross LEAP Academy Lindenwold Lower Cape May McNair New Providence Newark Data Science Newark Global Studies Newark Vocational Ocean Academy Charter Palmyra Point Pleasant Beach Raritan Riverside Roselle Park Shore South River Technology (Newark) Thomas Edison Energysmart Charter University Woodbury South 2 Clark Barnegat Burlington Camden Academy Charter Cedar Creek Cinnaminson Delran (Essex Tech Market Street) Governor Livingston Haddonfield Hillside Holmdel Hopewell Valley Lacey Lincoln Manasquan Manchester Township Mastery Camden Middle Township North Plainfield Oakcrest Ocean City Pennsauken Tech Pinelands Pleasantville Rumson-Fair Haven Salem Tech Seneca Snyder South Plainfield Sterling Timber Creek Voorhees Wall Weequahic South 3 Absegami Brick Memorial Brick Township Camden County Technical School at Sicklerville Carteret Central Regional Cherry Hill West Clearview Colonia Colts Neck Freehold Boro Hammonton Highland Hightstown Iselin Kennedy Lakewood Long Branch Mainland Middletown North Middletown South Montgomery Moorestown Northern Burlington Pennsauken Princeton Red Bank Regional Shawnee Toms River East Toms River South Triton Westhampton Tech West Windsor-Plainsboro North Winslow South 4 Atlantic City Atlantic Tech Cherokee Cherry Hill East East Brunswick Eastern Edison Egg Harbor Franklin Gloucester Tech Hillsborough Howell Hunterdon Central Jackson Township JP Stevens Kingsway Lenape Marlboro Monroe New Brunswick North Brunswick Old Bridge Perth Amboy Piscataway Rancocas Valley Sayreville South Brunswick Southern Toms River North Washington Township Williamstown Woodbridge Non-Public North A Dwight-Englewood Hudson Catholic Holy Angels Immaculate Heart Academy Kent Place Montclair Kimberley Morristown-Beard Mount St. Dominic Newark Academy Oak Knoll Paramus Catholic Pingry St. Elizabeth Non-Public North B Al-Ghazaly DePaul Eastern Christian Gill St. Bernard’s Golda Och Hawthorne Christian Mary Help of Christians Morris Catholic Pioneer Academy Pope John Saddle River Day St. Benedict’s St. Mary’s St. Vincent Villa Walsh Non-Public South A Camden Catholic Donovan Catholic Immaculata Mount St. Mary Notre Dame Paul VI Princeton Day Red Bank Catholic St. John Vianney St. Rose St. Thomas Aquinas Trinity Hall Union Catholic Non-Public South B Bishop Eustace Franklin School Gloucester Catholic Holy Cross Prep Mother Seton Our Lady of Mercy Roselle Catholic Rutgers Prep St. Dominic St. Joseph (Hammonton) Stuart Day Timothy Christian Wardlaw-Hartridge