Garfield High School (New Jersey)

For schools of the same name, see Garfield High School (disambiguation)
Garfield High School
Location
500 Palisade Avenue
Garfield, NJ 07026
Information
Type Public high school
Motto to promote success
School district Garfield Public Schools
Principal Dora D'Amico
Faculty 98.0 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 9 - 12
Enrollment 1,074[1] (as of 2013-14)
Student to teacher ratio 11.0:1[1]
Color(s)      Gold and
     Purple
Athletics conference North Jersey Interscholastic Conference
Team name Boilermakers
Vice Principals Nancy Kutsup
Steven Mucha
Website GHS Website

Garfield High School is a four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Garfield, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Garfield Public Schools.

As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,074 students and 98.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.0:1. There were 643 students (59.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 139 (12.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 307th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.[2] The school had been ranked 321st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 286th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[3] The magazine ranked the school 285th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[4] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 292nd out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 19 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[5] In 2012, Schooldigger.com ranked Garfield High School 306th out of 389 New Jersey High Schools in combined HSPA scores in the state, an increase of 10 positions from 2011.[6]

Athletics

The Garfield High School Boilermakers compete in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference (NJIC), made up of private and public high schools located in Bergen County, Hudson County and Passaic County, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[7] With 761 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014-15 school year as North I, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 754 to 1,076 students in that grade range.[8] Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Garfield was a member of the smaller Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League (BPSL).[9]

The boys baseball team won the North I Group IV state sectional championships in both 1962 and 1965.[10]

The girls volleyball team competed in the Group II state championships, falling to Tenafly High School in 1982 and Fort Lee High School in 1988. [11]

The 2015 boys soccer team defeated Dover High School by a score of 4-2 in the tournament final to win the North II Group II state sectional championship, the program's first state title since 1975.[12] The team defeated Holmdel High School by a 2-1 margin, scoring twice with a little more than two minutes remaining in the game, to win the Group II state title at Kean University to capture the program's first state championship.[13]

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:[14]

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Notable current and former faculty members include:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 School Data for Garfield High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed October 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed March 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 1, 2012.
  4. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 1, 2011.
  5. ↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed January 9, 2012.
  6. ↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2011-2012, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 4, 2013.
  7. ↑ League Memberships – 2014-2015, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 26, 2014.
  8. ↑ 2014-2015 Public Schools Group Classification: ShopRite Cup–Basketball–Baseball–Softball for North I, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of July 8, 2014. Accessed October 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association League Memberships – 2009-2010, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, backed up by the Internet Archive as of July 24, 2011. Accessed October 25, 2014.
  10. ↑ History of the NJSIAA Baseball Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 30, 2015.
  11. ↑ NJSIAA Girls Volleyball Group Champions, NJSIAA. Accessed October 30, 2015.
  12. ↑ Staff. "H.S. boys soccer: Garfield wins North 2, Group 2 state sectional championship", The Record (Bergen County), November 14, 2015. Accessed March 27, 2016. "The Garfield boys soccer team won its first state sectional championship since 1975 by beating host Dover, 4-2, in the North 2, Group 2 championship on Friday at the Dover Middle School."
  13. ↑ Olivero, Antonio. "Look back at live analysis: Garfield shocks Holmdel with 2 goals in 27 seconds, wins 1st ever G2 title", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 21, 2015. Accessed March 27, 2016.
  14. ↑ Administration, Garfield High School. Accessed October 30, 2015.
  15. ↑ Miles Austin, Cleveland Browns. Accessed October 25, 2014. "A native of Garfield, N.J., Austin was a two-year letterman as a wide receiver and defensive back at Garfield High School."
  16. ↑ Staff. "Wide Reception: NFLer Miles Austin cherishes his Garfield roots", Bergen.com, October 10, 2012. Accessed October 25, 2014.
  17. ↑ Luis Castillo player profile, National Football League Players Association. Accessed July 24, 2007. "Hometown: Garfield, N.J....SuperPrep All-America at Garfield High School in Garfield, New Jersey…first-team all-state and all-county as junior and senior by Associated Press and Newark Star-Ledger…three-time first-team all-league choice…team captain and team MVP as senior…also lettered in track and wrestling as state’s top heavyweight"
  18. ↑ Hermoso, Rafael. "GARFIELD'S CHREBET HOPES TO IMPRESS JETS", The Record (Bergen County), May 4, 1995. Accessed December 5, 2007. "Wayne Chrebet wasn't exactly overconfident when he began his football career as a sophomore at Garfield High School."
  19. ↑ "SAM SEBO". profootballarchives.com. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
  20. ↑ Dick Vitale bio, ESPN.com. Accessed June 13, 2011. "He began coaching at the high school level at Garfield High School, where he coached for one season (1963-64)."

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