North Bergen High School
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 North Bergen High School
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| 7417 Kennedy Boulevard North Bergen, NJ 07047 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| School district | North Bergen School District |
| Principal | Paschal Tennaro |
| Vice principals | Denise Arenas Patricia Brando Thomas Liggio Nicholas Sacco Edward Somick |
| Faculty | 158.8 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,587 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 16.3:1 |
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Scarlet and Gold |
| Athletics conference | Hudson County Interscholastic League |
| Team name | Bruins |
| Website | School website |
North Bergen High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade from North Bergen, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the North Bergen School District. It is the city's only high school, and its student body includes residents of both North Bergen and Guttenberg.
In terms of state aid, North Bergen High School is the most underfunded school in New Jersey, according to the Education Law Center, receiving $24 million less than the school would be entitles if it were fully funded under the formula specified by the School Funding Reform Act.
The school provides Advanced Placement course work and exams. The AP participation rate is 9%.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,587 students and 158.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.3:1. There were 1,677 students (64.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 198 (7.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Students from Guttenberg attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Guttenberg Public School District.
North Bergen High School was recognized as a "Benchmark Public High School for Academic Achievement" by the Business Coalition for Education Excellence, for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007.
The school was the 286th-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 322nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 296th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 294th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 285th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
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