Weehawken High School
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53 Liberty Place Weehawken, NJ 07086 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1940 (building) |
| School district | Weehawken School District |
| Principal | Anthony Colasurdo |
| Asst. principal | Robert Ferullo |
| Faculty | 48.3 (on FTE basis) |
| Grades | 7–12 |
| Enrollment | 480 (as of 2013-14) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 9.9:1 |
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Red and Black |
| Team name | Indians |
| Newspaper | Indian Ink |
| Yearbook | The Zenith |
| Website | School website |
Weehawken High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Weehawken, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Weehawken 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 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 480 students and 48.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.9:1. There were 225 students (46.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 53 (11.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The campus, located across the Hudson River from New York City, just west of Boulevard East atop the New Jersey Palisades, consists of a three-story brick structure located in a residential area completed in 1940. The building includes three computer labs, a STEAM lab, an ITV room, a modern library/media center, science labs, an auditorium that can accommodate 800 and a newly renovated gymnasium with a seating capacity of 1,200. The facility has been used by Hudson Theatre Works, a non-profit regional performance group based in Weehawken.
The school was the 189th-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 91st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 104th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 119th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 109th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. SchoolDigger.com ranked the school 170th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 34 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (82.5%) and language arts literacy (91.9%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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