Passaic High School
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| 170 Paulison Avenue Passaic, NJ 07055 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| School district | Passaic City School District |
| Principal | Francisco Velez Jr. |
| Asst. principals | Antonio Garcia Osvaldo Matos Graciella Romero Jeannette Torres-Gomez Jennifer Welch |
| Faculty | 200.0 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,940 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 14.7:1 |
| Color(s) |
Scarlet and Navy Blue |
| Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
| Team name | Indians |
| Website | School website |
Passaic High School is a four-year community public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Passaic, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Passaic City School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,940 students and 200.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.7:1. There were 2,929 students (99.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 317th-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 282nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 313th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 312th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 310th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Passaic High School's first graduating class, in 1873, was made up of eight students, who attended the Acquackanonk District School. The first Passaic High School was constructed in 1886-87 at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Bloomfield Avenue (now Broadway). The district's second high school was built in 1910 across the street from the original building on Lafayette Avenue. The present high school on Paulison Avenue was completed in May 1957.
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