- William L. Dickinson High School is a four-year public high school located in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Jersey City Public Schools. Dickinson occupies a prominent location on Bergen Hill overlooking lower Jersey City and the New York Harbor.
- As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,991 students and 197.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.2. The largest school in Hudson County, its student population is 48% Hispanic, 23% are Asian, 16% are Black/African American and 11% are White.
- The school was the 295th-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 291st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
- History
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Originally named Jersey City High School, the property was purchased in 1904 and the new building opened on September 6, 1906, in an attempt to relieve overcrowding in the city's public school. It was the first public secondary school in the city. When the school opened, it housed a 2,000 seat auditorium that saw extensive public use, and hosted such events as a lecture by Helen Keller and political rallies for United States Presidents Taft, Wilson, and Roosevelt.
[ The oringinal school was expanded with the construction of a second building in 1912 to further industrial skills education. This building contained a foundry, print shop, and vocational classrooms. ][ In 1913, the school was renamed William L. Dickinson High School for the superintendent who had advocated for creation of the school during his term from 1872 to 1883.][ The school was expanded again in 1933 with the addition of an annex containing a swimming pool, cafeteria, and gymnasium.] - A testament to the school's age, the rear of the building is the site of a late 1800s-era cannon mount built to protect the Hudson River shoreline from early invaders. Given the location of the cannon and the associated technology of the time, its doubted that the cannon would ever have been effective as a defensive emplacement. While the cannon has since been removed, the original mounting remains and is now the site of a black-granite monument to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
- In 1946, teachers went on strike.
- Awards and recognition
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In 2002–03, students Juliet R. Girard and Roshan D. Prabhu won the team competition of the Siemens Westinghouse Competition for "Identification and High Resolution Mapping of Flowering Time Genes in Rice." The duo shared a $100,000 scholarship with their victory.
[ Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science, and Technology, accessed November 22, 2006.] - A student was recognized as a semi-finalist in the 2007 New Jersey Business Idea Competition conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University.
[ 2007 New Jersey Business Idea Competition, Fairleigh Dickinson University, accessed May 6, 2007.] - Athletics
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The William L. Dickinson High School rams compete in the Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association (HCIAA), which includes 22 private and parochial high schools in Hudson County. The league operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).
[ Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 15, 2007.] - The Dickinson High School boys basketball team won the 2000 Public Sectionals - North I, Group IV, edging Memorial High School 43-41 in the tournament final.
[ 2000 Public Sectionals - North I, Group IV, NJSIAA, accessed May 6, 2007.] - In 2008 the boys cross country team (the "Wolf Pack") placed 4th in the North Jersey Section 2, Group IV state championships. The boys soccer team went to the state tournament and lost the first game of the tournament by a score of 4&ndash3 to Elizabeth High School.
[ 2008 Boys Soccer - North II, Group IV, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 25, 2009.] The Dickinson Rams football team was given a head coach named Rich Glover who used to play as an offensive line men for the New York Giants. - The 2009 Boys Volleyball Team won the Jersey City Public Schools Championship, and went on to the North New Jersey State tournament as the 20th seed, but however lost to Bloomfield High School.
- Notable alumni
- Al Blozis (1919-1945), player for the New York Giants killed during World War II.
[Thomas, Robert McG., Jr. "Two Giants Were Heroes Far From Playing Field", The New York Times, January 26, 1991. Accessed September 25, 2009. "Blozis, who was born in Garfield, N.J., and was a star athlete at Dickinson High School in Jersey City before going to Georgetown on a track scholarship, was regarded as the strongest player in professional football and had the physique to prove it."]
- The Duprees, 60s group formed by students from the school.
[Nelson, Jennifer L. "You, Me, & The Duprees", New Jersey Monthly, January 2008. Accessed June 23, 2008.]
- Ed Franco (1915–1992), played football on the 1936 Fordham University team as one of the "Seven Blocks of Granite".
[ Ed "Devil Doll" Franco, College Football Hall of Fame. Accessed July 22, 2007. "Ed Franco came from Dickinson High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Fordham."]
- James J. Galdieri (1900-1948), served in the New Jersey General Assembly.
[Staff. "JAMES J. GALDIERI; Ex-Assemblyman From Hudson County Dies in Home at 47", The New York Times, April 28, 1944. Accessed May 20, 2009.]
- Mary Teresa Norton (1875–1959), served 13 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives, from 1925 to 1951.
[ Mary Teresa Norton, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 15, 2007.]
- Mary Philbrook (1872–1958), first female attorney in New Jersey.
[ Mary Philbrook, 1872-1958, accessed May 6, 2007. "Mary Philbrook was born in Washington, D. C. in 1872 but her family moved to Jersey City by the time she was six. She attended Public School #11 (now Martin Luther King, Jr. School) and then Jersey City High School (now Dickinson High School)."]
- Eliu Rivera, represents District 4 on the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
[ Rivera.htm Freeholder Eliu Rivera - District 4, Hudson County, New Jersey. Accessed September 25, 2009.]
- Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940), set the transcontinental air speed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930.
- Alexander Simpson (1872-1953), served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature.
[ "A. Simpson, Figure in Hall-Mills Case". The New York Times, July 21, 1953. Accessed September 25, 2009.]
- Joe Sulaitis (born 1921), running back for the New York Giants of the NFL from 1943 to 1953.
[ Joe Sulaitis, database Football. Accessed October 1, 2007.]
- Dress Code
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The school requires its students to wear school uniforms.
[" Our Uniform Policy - Dickinson High School." Jersey City Public Schools. Retrieved on March 9, 2009.] - See also
- Five Corners, Jersey City
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Hudson County, New Jersey
- External links
- William L. Dickinson High School
- Jersey City Public Schools
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- Data for William L. Dickinson High School, National Center for Education Statistics
- DHS January,1955 48th Reunion Web Site
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