Northern Highlands Regional High School - Allendale, New Jersey/NJ

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Northern Highlands Regional High School

Hillside Ave, Allendale, NJ, 07401-1499 -

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Definition of Terms

Northern Highlands Regional High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Bergen County, NJ

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1309 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

114 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 333 students

Grade 10 - 320 students

Grade 11 - 313 students

Grade 12 - 343 students

This School

(NJ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:11

1:13

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(NJ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	10%	7%
% Hispanic	4%	15%
% Black	1%	17%
% White	85%	61%

Additional Student Information

This School

(NJ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

n/a

16%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

n/a

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(NJ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Northern Highlands Regional School District

This School's Agency

(NJ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	1	5
Number of Students Managed	1,309 students	2,429 students
District Total Revenue	$22,342,000	$39,780,000
District Expenditure	$31,589,000	$39,973,000
District Revenue / Student	$17,068	$16,377
District Expenditure / Student	$24,132	$16,457
District Graduation Rates	100%	81%

Girl Scouts are golden as they help Eva's Village (The Record and Herald News)
posted on June 28, 2009 at 11:58:23 am
At Eva's Village, it's a bit like the TV show "Extreme Makeover."
Northern Highlands assistant principal promoted (The Record and Herald News)
posted on June 26, 2009 at 10:57:41 pm
As principal, Joseph Occhino will make $173,292, a jump from his currently salary of $151,752.
Northern Highlands principal promoted (The Record and Herald News)
posted on June 26, 2009 at 10:09:32 pm
If it's not broke, don't fix it. That seems to be the sentiment at Northern Highlands Regional High School, where their assistant principal becomes principal on July 1, a decision made a few weeks after the school board decided to promote their principal to superintendent.
Warren church choir director among music educators honored (Echoes-Sentinel)
posted on June 25, 2009 at 11:29:09 am
WARREN TWP. – Tom Paster, music director at Pilgrim Congregational Church, Mountain View Road, was honored at the “Symposium on Music in Schools” hosted by the Yale School of Music on June 10 and 11.
Music director at Pilgrim Congregational Church, Warren, honored by Yale School of Music (The Somerset Reporter)
posted on June 9, 2009 at 01:57:10 pm
Tom Paster WARREN -- Tom Paster, music director at Pilgrim Congregational Church in Warren, will be honored at the "Symposium on Music in Schools" hosted by the Yale School of Music this week. Paster is among 50 music education teachers...

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Northern Highlands Regional High School (NHRHS) is a regional public high school and school district in Allendale, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The high school serves students in grades 9�12 from Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Saddle River, and Upper Saddle River.
Northern Highlands Regional High School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and by the New Jersey Department of Education.
The school newspaper is called The Highland Fling.
Awards and recognition: During the 1986-87 school year, Northern Highlands Regional High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.
Northern Highlands Regional High School was the 7th ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.
Curriculum: Northern Highlands has a four-day rotating schedule; days are lettered with A through D. Students are scheduled for eight courses, six of which meet daily. This schedule provides longer segments of time (57 minute periods) to engage in higher-order thinking and performance-based learning. To receive a Northern Highlands Regional High School diploma, all students must pass the New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), and earn a minimum of 125 credits including: 4 years of English and a freshman writing course for one semester; 1 year of World History / Cultures; 2 years of United States History; 3 years of Mathematics; 3 years of Science; 2 years of World Languages; 2 years of Career Education & Consumer, Family, and Life Skills, one semester of which is Computer Applications; 2 years of Visual and Performing Arts; and a year of Physical Education and/or Health for each year a student is in attendance at Northern Highlands.
Elective offerings in Visual and Performing Arts include: all art and music classes, Acting I, Actors� Workshop, Creative Writing I and II, Journalism, TV Production I and II, and Film Studies. Semester courses include: Digital Multimedia and Web Page Design, as well as Mass Communications, Introduction to TV and Film, and Public Speaking. Elective offerings in Family and Life Skills include: Business, Computer classes, Industrial Technology, Family and Consumer Sciences, Music and Fine Arts. Semester courses include Digital Multimedia and Web Page Design which may apply EITHER to Visual and Performing Arts requirements OR Family and Life Skills, and Personal Finance and Investment, Entrepreneurship, Financial Management and Accounting, and Sports and Entertainment Marketing. Engineering courses are offered and rapidly growing in popularity.
Presently, there are 37 Honors courses � two of which are Syracuse University Honors Project Advance classes in Forensic Science and Writing Studio I/ Reading Interpretation � and 19 Advanced Placement courses, in AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP United States History, AP European History, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP French Language, AP Spanish Language, AP Latin Literature, AP Macroeconomics, AP Art History, AP Studio Art, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Computer Science and AP Music Theory. AP courses are available to juniors and seniors only. Although very few Highlanders take a study, those students who take two lab sciences must have a study.
The Northern Highlands Regiment, the high school marching band under the direction of Theodora Sotiropoulos, is a top program in the region, having won the New Jersey Division 4A State Championship in 2004. The band often places first or in the top three at local competitions throughout the fall season.
Athletics: The Northern Highlands Regional High School Highlanders compete in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League, and is categorized by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) in North Jersey 1 Group 3 with schools including Wayne Hills High School and Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan. The school has multiple athletic programs including Football, Basketball, Baseball, Lacrosse, Softball, Field Hockey, Swimming, Wrestling, Volleyball, Fencing, and Track. .
Northern Highlands is best known for its Football program. For 19 years, Head Coach Steve Simonetti led the Highlanders to State Championships in 1988, and 1999 through 2001. In early 2007, Simonetti retired from coaching, the Head Coach job is being taken over by Chris Locurto. By the time Simonetti retired, 46 of his football players had gone to play in the NCAA, including Pittsburgh's Kevin Hughes and Johns Hopkins' Tucker Michels.
The Northern Highlands Ice Hockey Team won the NBIL regular season title and the inaugural NBIL Cup in 2007.
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