Hoboken High School
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 Hoboken Junior Senior High School
Hoboken Junior Senior High School
Hoboken Junior Senior High School
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| 9th and Clinton Streets Hoboken, NJ 07030 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Opened | 1962 |
| School district | Hoboken Public Schools |
| Principal | Robin Piccapietra |
| Vice principal | Anna Gullo |
| Faculty | 63.5 FTEs |
| Grades | 7 - 12 |
| Enrollment | 658 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10.4:1 |
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Red and White |
| Athletics conference | Hudson County Interscholastic League |
| Team name | Redwings |
| Website | www |
Hoboken Junior Senior High School is a six-year comprehensive public high school serving students in seventh through twelfth grades, located in Hoboken, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hoboken Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928. Since the 2013-14 school year, the school has operated as a combined junior-senior high school.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 658 students and 63.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.4:1. There were 472 students (71.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 75 (11.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The current Hoboken High School was built in 1962. Prior to that time, A. J. Demarest High School, dedicated in the autumn of 1911, served as the city's high school. When the current high school was built, Demarest became a junior high school serving grades 8-9, and it is currently the site of the city's pre-K 3 and pre-K 4 program.
The school was the 274th-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 298th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 187th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 139th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 260th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. The September 2008 issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine noted Hoboken High School as the second most improved high school in the state, having jumped from 260 in 2006 to 139 in 2008. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 327th out of 367 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).
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