West Essex High School
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| 65 West Greenbrook Road North Caldwell, NJ 07006 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | "Dedicated to Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility." |
| Established | 1960 |
| Principal | Caesar Diliberto |
| Vice principals | Juliann Hoebee Damion Macioci |
| Faculty | 93.0 (on FTE basis) |
| Enrollment | 1,088 (as of 2013-14) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.7:1 |
| Campus | 100 acres (0.40 km2) |
| Color(s) |
Red white and black |
| Athletics conference | Super Essex Conference |
| Team name | Knights |
| Newspaper | Wessex Wire |
| Website | School website |
West Essex High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in North Caldwell, New Jersey in the United States. The high school is part of the West Essex Regional School District, which serves students from four municipalities in western Essex County. Communities served by the district's schools are Essex Fells, Fairfield, North Caldwell, and Roseland. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1964.Block scheduling was implemented for the 2014-2015 school year, after it was pushed upon by the Class of 2013.
As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,088 students and 93.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. There were 21 students (1.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 8 (0.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 25th-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 16th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 36th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 48th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 34th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 106th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 23 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (86.8%) and language arts literacy (95.9%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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