Hillside High School (New Jersey)
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| 1085 Liberty Avenue Hillside, NJ 07205 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1947 |
| School district | Hillside Public Schools |
| Principal | Christine Sidwa |
| Vice principals | Obinna Emenaka Victoria Gilliard Ralph Rotando |
| Faculty | 79.2 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 849 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10.7:1 |
| Color(s) |
Maroon and Gray |
| Athletics conference | Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference |
| Team name | Comets |
| Website | School website |
Hillside High School is a comprehensive community four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hillside, in Union County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hillside Public Schools.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 849 students and 79.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.7:1. There were 426 students (50.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 115 (13.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 250th-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 166th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 217th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 287th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 262nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
In 2001, students from David Brearley High School and Hillside High School collaborated to develop literary and art projects about bigotry presented at an exhibit, "Making Connections: Two Culturally Diverse Schools Address Prejudice and Hatred by Studying the Holocaust Together." The exhibit was presented at Kean University, and was viewed together with local Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.
Hillside High School on Liberty Avenue was originally constructed in 1939–40 with the first graduating class in 1941, replacing the Coe Avenue (A.P. Morris) School which became a grammar school. Additions were later added to accommodate the baby-boomers of the 1950s and 1960s. In the mid-sixties the high school held some 1,500 students.
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