Bergenfield High School - Bergenfield, New Jersey/NJ

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Bergenfield High School

80 S Prospect Ave, Bergenfield, NJ, 07621-1958 -

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Definition of Terms

Bergenfield High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Bergen County, NJ

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1287 students

% Male / % Female

52% / 48%

Total Classroom Teachers

71 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 325 students

Grade 10 - 352 students

Grade 11 - 309 students

Grade 12 - 301 students

This School

(NJ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:18

1:13

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(NJ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	27%	7%
% Hispanic	32%	15%
% Black	7%	17%
% White	34%	61%

Additional Student Information

This School

(NJ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

16%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(NJ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Bergenfield Boro School District

This School's Agency

(NJ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	7	5
Number of Students Managed	3,864 students	2,429 students
District Total Revenue	$52,853,000	$39,780,000
District Expenditure	$52,669,000	$39,973,000
District Revenue / Student	$13,678	$16,377
District Expenditure / Student	$13,631	$16,457
District Graduation Rates	82%	81%

Bergenfield honors wrestling legend Cascio (The Record and Herald News)
posted on June 13, 2009 at 01:43:22 pm
Sal Cascio owned his wrestling room. For 11 years he roamed that room at Bergenfield High School, yellow Whiffle ball bat in hand, taking kids he pulled out of the hallways and "out of pool halls" and turning them into some of the best wrestlers in Bergen County history.
UPDATE: Candidates await returns (The Record and Herald News)
posted on June 2, 2009 at 03:58:11 pm
Voters trickled into the polls throughout North Jersey to cast ballots in hot local races for mayor and council.
School offering students rewards for achieving (WABC-TV New York)
posted on March 19, 2009 at 08:01:26 pm
Some NJ students are getting incentives for their school performance.
Bergenfield native Villone gets shot with Mets (The Record)
posted on March 7, 2009 at 06:56:47 pm
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – After 13 years in the major leagues, Ron Villone knows his way around a baseball clubhouse. In fact, he knows his way around a lot of baseball clubhouses. That happens when you've been on 11 different major league rosters and are trying to make your record-tying 12th.

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Bergenfield High School is a four-year, comprehensive public high school serving students from Bergenfield, in Bergen County, New Jersey. A suburb of New York City, Bergenfield has a population of 28,000 people, mostly consisting of people in professional, business, and technical fields. As part of the Bergenfield Public Schools.
Bergenfield High School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the New Jersey Department of Education.
Athletics: Bergenfield High School is one of the twelve schools participating in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League (NBIL/NBIAL). It plays under the team name of the Bergenfield Bears. Alex Turnamian is Bergenfield's Athletic Director.
Most sports have Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman teams, but some only have the top one or two tiers.
Note: Sports marked with an asterisk (*) usually practice and compete with each other, but they are two separate teams and officially compete and are scored separately.
Fall sports teams: Cross Country (Boys)*, Cross Country (Girls)*, Football, Soccer (Boys), Soccer (Girls), Tennis (Girls), Volleyball.
Winter sports teams: Basketball (Boys), Basketball (Girls), Bowling (Boys)*, Bowling (Girls)*, Track (Boys)*, Track (Girls)*, Wrestling.
Spring sports teams: Baseball, Softball, Golf (Boys)*, Golf (Girls)*, Tennis (Boys), Track (Boys)*, Track (Girls)*.
Curriculum: Bergenfield High School offers a wide range of courses in the areas of art, business and marketing, English, health and physical education, industrial and technological education, mathematics, music, science, social studies, and world language. Class levels range from modified to Advanced Placement. Full-, half-, and quarter-year electives are also offered.
Advanced Placement Program (AP) Courses include AP Studio Art, AP Art History, AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Calculus, AP Computer Science, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP United States History, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Music Theory, and AP Spanish Language.
Notable alumni: Bob Gaudio of the group The Four Seasons.
Ron Villone, pitcher for the New York Yankees.
Jacklyn Zeman actress who has played Barbara "Bobbie" Spencer on General Hospital since 1977.
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