Eastside High School (Paterson, New Jersey)
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| 150 Park Avenue Paterson, NJ 07501 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1926 |
| School district | Paterson Public Schools |
| Principal | Karen A. Johnson |
| Faculty | 189 (on FTE basis) |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,738 (as of 2009-10) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 9.20:1 |
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Navy blue and orange |
| Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
| Team name | Ghosts |
| Website | School website |
Eastside High School (or EHS) is a four-year public high school in Paterson in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, that serves the eastern section of Paterson which was built on an old cemetery thus earning the name "Ghosts". EHS, which serves grades students in ninth through twelfth grades, operates as part of the Paterson Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.
The Eastside campus hosts three separate academy programs that operate independently but share a facility and athletic programs: School of Culinary Arts, Hospitality and Tourism, School of Government and Public Administration and the School of Information Technology.
Eastside High School opened on February 1, 1926. The school mascot is the Ghost.
The school was the 311th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was ranked 309th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 370th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2009-10 rankings 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).
As of the 2008-09 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,731 students and 295.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 5.9:1.
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