County Prep High School
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 County Prep High School
County Prep High School
County Prep High School
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| 525 Montgomery Street Jersey City, NJ 07302 |
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| Type | Magnet public high school |
| Principal | Barbara Mendolla |
| Asst. prinicpal | Kathy Young |
| Faculty | 81.8 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 708 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 8.7:1 |
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Black and Gold |
| Team name | Hurricanes |
| Website | www |
County Prep High School is a full-time public magnet high school for students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Jersey City in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Hudson County Schools of Technology.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 708 students and 81.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.7:1. There were 297 students (41.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 105 (14.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 184th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 21 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the two components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), mathematics (81.3%) and language arts literacy (91.0%).
Academic courses are aligned to the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards. Career clusters include Communications, Medicine and Science, Technological Engineering and Design, Business and the Arts. Students are involved in the plan and design of their learning path promoting a desire to explore, to be creative and to succeed.
Program choices ensure that all students participate in internships, work/study programs and community service prior to graduation.
The core courses in County Prep are:
County Prep also provides electives for students to take. The electives are:
Anatomy & Physiology, AP American History, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP English Literature and Composition, AP European History, AP Physics, Aquaculture, Astronomy, Business Law, Business Management, Choir, Computerized Accounting, Dance, Economics, Environmental Science, Film Genre, Food Service, Forensics, Geology, Internships, Introduction to Law, Investing in Your Future, Marketing, Microcomputer Applications, Multicultural Literature, Physics, Probability & Statistics, Precalculus, Psychology, Retailing, Sign Language, Sociology, Studio Art, Trigonometry, & Yoga.
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