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Paramus catholic high school graduation 2016
Paramus Catholic High School is a co-educational Roman Catholic high school located in Paramus in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The school, founded in 1965, is one of several high schools in the Archdiocese of Newark. It has the largest enrollment of any Roman Catholic high school in the state of New Jersey.
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- Paramus catholic high school graduation 2016
- Extracurricular activities and athletics
- Weekend school
- Notable alumni
- References
Paramus Catholic is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1996. Admission to the school is a rigorous process, with only one student accepted for every four applicants.
As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,571 students and 110.0 faculty members (on an FTE basis), resulting in a student–teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
Extracurricular activities and athletics
The Paramus Catholic High School Paladins compete in the Big North Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Prior to the 2010 realignment, the school participated in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League (NBIAL). In addition to football, cheer and girls basketball, they are also a consistent power in ice hockey, girls swimming, and boys basketball. Their biggest rivals include Bergen Catholic High School, Immaculate Heart Academy, St. Joseph Regional High School, Academy of the Holy Angels and Don Bosco Preparatory High School.
The school is known for its cheerleading squad and dance team. They both have won many national and state titles such as the 2002 State cheer champions, 2003 EDA National dance champions, 2004 Spirit Championship champions, 2005 NDA junior varsity pom national champions, 2006 Spirit Sports National champions, 2007 State Parochial cheer champions, 2007 EDA National dance champions and 2008 EDA National Dance Champions-Varsity Jazz/JV Jazz and Pom and Prop. 2009 EDA National Dance Team Champions- JV Jazz and Pom and Prop. 2010 EDA National Dance Team Champions- Varsity Hip Hop and Variety and JV Jazz and Pom.
The softball team won the Parochial North A state sectional championship in 2001 with a string of shutout victories, topping Mount Saint Dominic Academy 2-0 in the first round, Immaculate Heart Academy 2-0 in the semifinals and Pope John XXIII Regional High School 2-0 in the tournament final.
The girls basketball team won the 2001 Parochial North A title with a 49-42 win over Immaculata High School.
In the summer of 2010, Paramus Catholic formed a marching band for the first time, making it the only Catholic high school to have a marching band in the Archdiocese of Newark and Paterson.
The football team won the Non-Public Group III state sectional championship in 1997, the Non-Public Group I title in 2007 and the Non-Public Group IV title in 2012. With the hiring of alumni Chris Partridge, the Paramus Catholic football team improved and began to compete more effectively against Bergen Catholic High School and Don Bosco Preparatory High School in New Jersey's Group IV Non-Public division. In December 2012, the Paramus Catholic football team won the Non-Public Group IV state championship against Bergen Catholic High School by a final score of 37-34 on a touchdown scored with 1:16 left in the game. This was the program's first Group IV title and its first sectional championship since 1997. One year after finishing the season out of the playoffs with a 3-6 record, the football team won the Non-Public Group IV state sectional championship, defeating St. Peter's Preparatory School by a score of 33-28 in the tournament final. One year after finishing the season out of the playoffs with a 3-6 record, the football team won the Non-Public Group IV state sectional championship, defeating St. Peter's Prep by a score of 33-28 in the tournament final.
Weekend school
As of February 2013 the Japanese Weekend School of New Jersey (ニュージャージー補習授業校), a Japanese supplementary weekend school, holds classes at Paramus Catholic, while the school offices are in Fort Lee. It is one of the two weekend Japanese school systems operated by the Japanese Educational Institute of New York (JEI; ニューヨーク日本人教育審議会 Nyūyōku Nihonjin Kyōiku Shingi Kai), a nonprofit organization which also operates two Japanese day schools in the New York City area.