Dumont High School
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| 101 New Milford Avenue Dumont, NJ 07628 |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1932 |
| School district | Dumont Public Schools |
| Principal | James Wichmann |
| Asst. principals | Ryanne Hutchinson Michael Weber |
| Faculty | 65.6 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 809 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.3:1 |
| Color(s) |
Brown Orange White |
| Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
| Team name | Huskies |
| Rivals | Bergenfield High School |
| Website | Dumont High School |
Dumont High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Dumont, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Dumont Public Schools.
The current Dumont High School opened in 1932. The original high school was founded in 1918 and located at what is now the Dumont Municipal Building. In 1961, construction on the current building yielded a new gymnasium, a library, over 20 classrooms, and a cafeteria. Another addition was added to the school in 2007. A state-of-the-art media center, modern science labs, and an elevator were part of the new construction. The school operates under the authority of the New Jersey Department of Education and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1939.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 809 students and 65.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1. There were 53 students (6.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 12 (1.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 101st-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. The school had been ranked 118th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 106th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 162nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 174th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 179th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 10 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (78.0%) and language arts literacy (95.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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