Type Private, Coeducational Established 1956 Closed June 2011 Founded 1956 | Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic Status Closed Number of students 203 (2009–2010) Faculty 12.8 (on FTE basis) | |
Principal Beatrice Esteban-Messina Address 209 3rd St, Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA School district Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark Accreditation Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Athletics conference Hudson County Interscholastic League Similar Saint Peter's Prep, Hudson Catholic Regional, Lincoln High School, St Anthony High School, Marist High School | ||
St. Mary High School was a private, Roman Catholic high school in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, that operated as part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark until the school was closed in June 2011.
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As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 203 students and 12.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.9.
Athletics
The St. Mary High School Ramblers competed in the Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association, which includes public and private high schools in Hudson County, which operated under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.
Closing
Despite a tuition that at $4,300 was little more than half of the rates charges by other schools in the Newark Archdiocese, falling enrollment meant that the school would have been too small to justify remaining open. After its founding in 1956, the school grew to a peak of 450 students in the 1980s, which had declined to 381 by 2000. The 2010-11 graduating class of 72 combined with enrollment of under 15 students for the upcoming school year would have put total enrollment at an unsustainably small 100 students for the 2011-12 year, which led the Archdiocese to decide to close the school.