Type Public high school Principal Damian Kennedy Faculty 39.6 FTEs Phone +1 201-441-4808 Color Gold | School district Bogota Public Schools Vice principal Kelly Foley DeCongelio Grades 7 - 12 District Bogota Public Schools Number of students 496 (2014–2015) | |
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Address 2 Henry C Luthin Pl, Bogota, NJ 07603, USA | ||
Bogota Jr./Sr. High School is a comprehensive public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Bogota, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Bogota Public Schools.
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As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 496 students and 39.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. There were 178 students (35.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 63 (12.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 200th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 259th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 151st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 173rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 132nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 278th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 48 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
Athletics
The Bogota High School Buccaneers compete in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference (NJIC), following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Bogota was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) in the Olympic Division. With 238 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North I, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 187 to 490 students in that grade range.
The school operates as the lead agency for a cooperative wrestling program with Weehawken High School that expires at the end of the 2017-18 school year.
Interscholastic sports offered include:
The 1969 boys' baseball team, led by Rich Graham, won the Bergen County Baseball Tournament defeating Bergenfield High School. Rich Graham was recognized by The Record as its Athlete of the Week for his efforts as well as being named the MVP of the tournament.
The 1990 boys basketball team, led by former North Carolina Tar Heel Pat Sullivan, won the NJ Group I state basketball title, as well as the Bergen County Tournament defeating non-public power Bergen Catholic High School in the championship game.
The Buccaneers came into the 2006 state football tournament ranked first in their bracket, and proceeded to beat #8 seed Cresskill High School 36-7 in the first round and fourth-ranked Hasbrouck Heights High School by 24-17 in the semifinal game. On December 1, 2006, Bogota beat #6 seed Mountain Lakes High School 28-0 at Giants Stadium, to take home the North 1, Group I state championship. This was Bogota's first football state championship since 1957, and their first since the playoff era started in the 1970s.
The boys cross country team won the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Bergen County Division D Championship.
On March 8, 2009, Emmanuel Ajagbe became Bogota's first wrestling state champion, claiming the 145 pound title at the state finals at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Clubs
Clubs and extracurricular activities include:
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are: