Principal John Tonero Asst. principal Charles Syby Phone +1 201-998-8227 Colors Green, Gold | Established 1930 Vice principal Don De Pascale Tuition 8,250 USD Number of students 356 (2013–2014) | |
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic(Sisters of St. Josephand Lasallians) Similar St Mary High School, Queen of Peace Catholic, North Arlington High Sch, Henry P Becton Regional, Immaculate Conception High Sch Profiles | ||
Queen of Peace High School is a Roman Catholic, coeducational parochial high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in North Arlington in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, co-sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph and the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. The school has been honored two times by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, the highest award an American school can receive. It is overseen by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1969.
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As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 356 students and 26.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
Awards, recognition and rankings
During both the 1992-93 and 1997-98 school years, Queen of Peace High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education.
Athletics
The Queen of Peace High School Golden Griffins compete in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, made up of private and public high schools located in Bergen County, Passaic County and Hudson County. Prior to the league realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Queen of Peace had been a member of the American Division of the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL).
St. Mary High School had filed a complaint against Queen of Peace High School with the NJSIAA in 2007, claiming that a new wrestling program run by former Gaels coach Scot Weaver at Queen of Peace will induce St. Mary's wrestlers to transfer schools.
The last football team to win the Bergen County Scholastic League were the 1989 Golden Griffins. As BCSL American Division Champions, the Griffins went on to play Bergen Catholic in the NJSIAA Parochial School state playoffs.
In 1990, the Golden Griffin football team battled Don Bosco Preparatory High School in the NJSIAA Parochial final, ultimately losing 21 - 20.
Recent events
In 1999, William "Sonny" Connors, grandfather to Derek Jeter and longtime head of school maintenance, died. In honor of Sonny's service to Queen of Peace, the Jeter family, through Jeter's Turn2 Foundation, started the Connors/Jeter Scholarship Fund. This fund was started to help exceptional, well-rounded students from Queen of Peace and to memorialize Derek's grandfather, William "Sonny" Connors, with two students meeting the criteria of academic and community accomplishments being chosen each year as recipients.
On January 4, 2007, several Queen of Peace students traveled to Rome in order to sing in a private audience to Pope Benedict XVI.
In February 2013, the school attracted national attention when it asked the girls of the school to take a pledge not to curse for 30 days as the school wanted "ladies to act like ladies", though male students at the school were asked not to swear "in the presence of ladies" and were not required to take an oath.