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Wayne Hills High School

272 Berdan Avenue, Wayne, NJ, 07470-3283 -

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Definition of Terms

Wayne Hills High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Passaic County, NJ

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1385 students

% Male / % Female

50% / 50%

Total Classroom Teachers

99 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 360 students

Grade 10 - 338 students

Grade 11 - 341 students

Grade 12 - 320 students

Grade Not Listed - 26 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	11%	7%
% Hispanic	5%	15%
% Black	1%	17%
% White	83%	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

Wayne Township School District

This School's Agency

(NJ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	14	5
Number of Students Managed	8,807 students	2,429 students
District Total Revenue	$129,570,000	$39,780,000
District Expenditure	$152,524,000	$39,973,000
District Revenue / Student	$14,712	$16,377
District Expenditure / Student	$17,318	$16,457
District Graduation Rates	93%	81%

In Wayne, jobless put on a show (The Record and Herald News)
posted on November 3, 2009 at 01:22:58 am
Graduating from Columbia University last May, Jeff Petriello ended up like most of his peers: jobless and living back at home with his parents. Looking at his circle of friends, he saw a lot of talent — musicians, artists, photographers — but a general state of malaise.
Highlanders put scare into Green Knights (The Record and Herald News)
posted on October 22, 2009 at 04:33:59 am
Sometimes a score does not reflect the game. Saturday's game between West Milford and St. Joseph Regional was one of those games. "These kids played very hard," said West Milford Head Coach Poppe after his teams' 24-7 loss. "It's always tough to lose."
Football secondary after mom fights breast cancer (Lake County News-Sun)
posted on October 8, 2009 at 09:18:52 am
Real men wore pink last weekend, as the NFL commemorated National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And perhaps no other player felt the emotion behind the effort as strongly as Greg Olsen. The third-year Chicago Bears tight end, sporting a pink tie, visited Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Midwestern Regional Medical Center on Wednesday.
Ireland completes FBI leadership program (The Record and Herald News)
posted on October 1, 2009 at 11:53:37 pm
After visiting his father at the FBI National Academy in 2000, Sean Ireland had his mind made up what he wanted to do with the rest of his life.
Local attorney is recognized by peers (The Record and Herald News)
posted on October 1, 2009 at 01:09:38 pm
Local resident, Michael J. Epstein, has been named one of the "Ten Leaders of Civil Trial & Personal Injury Law of New Jersey, Age 45 & Under," based on a 2008 peer survey by Digital Press International of Fort Lee.

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Wayne Hills High School is a comprehensive community public high school, one of the two high schools in Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Wayne Public Schools. The mascot is a Patriot.
As of the 2007-08 school year, there was a student population of 1,385 students with 99.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis). This equates to a 13.9:1 student–teacher ratio.
Awards and recognition
In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Wayne Hills High School was listed in 1102nd place, the 34th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.
The school was the 60th-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 70th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.
Sports played at WHHS
Wayne Hills sports teams include: volleyball, soccer, tennis, football, marching band, field hockey, basketball, cheerleading, bowling, wrestling, skiing, fencing, ice hockey, track and field, swimming, cross country running, lacrosse, gymnastics, baseball, softball and golf.
The Wayne Hills Patriots compete in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League (NBIAL), and is the only team outside Bergen County participating in the league.
The Wayne Hills Boys track team were 2003 County, League, and State Champions.
As of 2007, Wayne Hills also has the reigning county champions in Boys and Girls Tennis.
The 2008 Boys Volleyball team was undefeated and went on to winning the Passaic County Championship.
Football
The football team has won six state sectional championships in seven years through 2008, reigning as the five-time defending champs of North 1 Group 3. The team has accumulated a 65-6 record during the seven seasons through 2008.
From 2004 to 2009, the team won 55 straight games. During the winning streak, the team won five championships, including four perfect 12-0 seasons. The Wayne Hills 55-game win streak came to an end with a 17-15 loss to Saint Joseph Regional High School on October 2. The streak is the 2nd longest in New Jersey high school football history; second only to Paulsboro High School's 62 game win streak.
The football team was in the 2005 playoffs as the top seed in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating #8-seed Teaneck High School 40-6 and number-four Ramapo High School 41-13, and then crushing third-seeded Parsippany Hills High School 46-0 in the sectional finals.
In 2006, the Patriots came in seeded second in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating 7th-seed Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan 37-7 and 6th-seed Passaic Valley Regional High School 33-0. In the state finals, played at Rutgers University on December 2, 2006, Wayne Hills defeated fourth-seeded Parsippany Hills High School 23-12, the second consecutive year the two faced each other in the finals.
In 2006, the football team was ranked 3rd behind #1 Don Bosco Prep and #2 St.Peter's Prep in New Jersey. The team was ranked 7th in the East region by USA Today in their final 2006 Super 25 prep football regional rankings.
Wayne Hill's football team finished 12-0 in the 2007 season, defeating Wayne Valley High School in the North I Group III state sectional championship game played at Giants Stadium by a final score of 27-7. The win was team's 40th consecutive win, and its fourth consecutive sectional title.
On December 6, 2008, Wayne Hills played Lakeland Regional High School at Giants Stadium. Wayne Hills won with a final score of 35-6, making them 52-0 in the past four seasons, and giving them their fifth consecutive sectional title.
As of December 9, 2008, Wayne Hills was ranked 81st on the Rivals.com list of the top 100 high school football teams in the nation. The only other New Jersey teams then on the list were Shawnee High School (88th) and Don Bosco Prep (17th).
Notable Alumni
Greg Olsen TE Chicago Bears
See also
Wayne Valley High School
List of high schools in New Jersey
External links
Wayne Hills High School website
Data for Wayne Hills High School, National Center for Education Statistics

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