Type Public high school Principal Christine Sidwa Phone +1 908-352-7664 District Hillside Public Schools Founded 1947 | Established 1947 Faculty 79.2 FTEs Color Grey Number of students 849 (2014–2015) | |
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School district Hillside Public Schools Vice principals Obinna Emenaka
Victoria Gilliard
Ralph Rotando Address 1085 Liberty Ave, Hillside, NJ 07205, USA Athletics conference Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference | ||
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, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hillside Public Schools.
Contents
- Awards recognition and rankings
- Programs
- History
- Athletics
- Administration
- Notable alumni
- Notable faculty
- References
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 849 students and 79.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.7:1. There were 426 students (50.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 115 (13.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 250th-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 166th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 217th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 287th in 2008 out of 316 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 1939–40 with the first graduating class in 1941, 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
The Hillside High School Comets compete in the Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which consists of public and private high schools in Union County and operates under the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 658 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as Central Jersey, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 498 to 750 students in that grade range. Before the 2010 realignment, the school had participated in the Mountain Valley Conference, which consisted of public and parochial high schools in Essex County and Union County.
In 1986, the Hillside Comets football team cruised to an 11–1 record and a North II Group II state championship with a win against Madison High School.
The boys' basketball team won the Group II state championships in both 1990 and 1992, defeating Middle Township High School in the tournament final in both years.
In 2011, the Hillside High School cheerleading team, under coach Keyla Silva, won the title of State Champions at the NJCDCA competition in Trenton in the Intermediate Varsity division. After this victory the cheerleaders held this title for three years in a row, repeating as state division champion in 2012 and 2013.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are: