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Hillside High School

1085 Liberty Ave, Hillside, NJ, 07205-2526 -

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Definition of Terms

Hillside High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Union County, NJ

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1048 students

% Male / % Female

53% / 47%

Total Classroom Teachers

73 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 342 students

Grade 10 - 280 students

Grade 11 - 206 students

Grade 12 - 199 students

Grade Not Listed - 21 students

This School

(NJ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:14

1:13

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(NJ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	1%	7%
% Hispanic	19%	15%
% Black	68%	17%
% White	12%	61%

Additional Student Information

This School

(NJ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

27%

16%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

11%

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(NJ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Hillside Township School District

This School's Agency

(NJ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	6	5
Number of Students Managed	3,464 students	2,429 students
District Total Revenue	$46,980,000	$39,780,000
District Expenditure	$43,960,000	$39,973,000
District Revenue / Student	$13,562	$16,377
District Expenditure / Student	$12,691	$16,457
District Graduation Rates	77%	81%

Person of the Week: Anjanee Bell (ABC11 Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville)
posted on November 14, 2009 at 03:12:59 am
Hillside High School dance teacher changes young lives through dance
He went from bad to oh, so good (The News & Observer)
posted on November 13, 2009 at 03:52:42 am
Keijuane Hester sold drugs to earn quick cash for his family. Now his white powder gets mixed with sugar and food coloring instead of packaged into small plastic bags.
Key question in gang rape (MalaysiaNews.net)
posted on November 2, 2009 at 04:21:35 pm
(CNN) -- The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California while 10 or more witnesses, most of them students, looked on has sparked familiar ques...
Ask the right question about gang rape (CNN)
posted on November 2, 2009 at 11:41:09 am
The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl on the campus of Richmond High School in Northern California while 10 or more witnesses, most of them students, looked on has sparked familiar questions: "Why are our kids so messed up?" "Why didn't these students try to stop the crime?" "What's happening in our schools?"
Duke should get Boyette, Oghobaase back for VT (WRAL Sports Fan)
posted on October 1, 2009 at 07:15:34 pm
The Blue Devils are starting to get healthy - just in time for the start of ACC play.

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Hillside High School is a comprehensive community four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hillside, in Union County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Hillside Public Schools.
As of the 2005–06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,048 students and 73.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 14.4.
The school was the 287th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was ranked 262nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Programs
In 2001, students from David Brearley High School and Hillside High School collaborated to develop literary and art projects about bigotry presented at an exhibit, "Making Connections: Two Culturally Diverse Schools Address Prejudice and Hatred by Studying the Holocaust Together." The exhibit was presented at Kean University, and was viewed together with local Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.
History
Hillside High School on Liberty Avenue was originally constructed in 1947, replacing the Coe Avenue (A.P. Morris) School which became a grammar school. Additions were later added to accommodate the baby-boomers of the 1950s and 1960s. In the mid-sixties the high school held some 1,500 students.
Athletics
Hillside High School competes in the Mountain Valley Conference, which consists of public and parochial high schools covering Union County and Essex County in northern New Jersey. The conference operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).
In 1986, The Hillside Comets cruised to an 11-1 record and a North Jersey, Section 2, Group 2 State Championship vs. Dover High School.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
Dr. Lee D. McCaskill - Principal
Norman Crystal - Vice Principal
Ralph Rotando - Vice Principal
Notable alumni
Arthur Seale (born 1946), responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Sidney Reso, the Vice President of International Operations for Exxon on April 29, 1992.
Hela Yungst (d. 2002), Miss New Jersey 1971, representing the state in the Miss America Pageant. She changed her name to Hela Young and became the New Jersey Lottery representative on television.
Marc Leepson (born 1945, class of 1963), Journalist, historian, author of Saving Monticello, Flag: An American Biography, Desperate Engagement and other books and the editor of the Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War.
Rollie Massimino (born 1934), college basketball coach, best known for leading the Villanova Wildcats to an NCAA championship in 1985. He also was head coach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Cleveland State University. His 515 career wins (as of the end of the 2009 season)make him one of only 17 coaches in NCAA history with more than 500 career victories.
External links
Hillside High School
Hillside Public Schools
Data for the Hillside Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

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