page_title: Union City High School
section_title: Grade structure
hierarchical_section_title: Union City High School / Grade structure
caption_attribution_description: Union City High School Academy for Enrichment and Advancement, on Kerrigan Avenue and 22nd Street in Union City, New Jersey, an annex to Union City High School. Overlooking the houses in the background at the right are the rooftop athletic field's bleachers of the main building.
context_page_description: Union City High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Union City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Union City Board of Education. The four-story school is located between Kennedy Boulevard and Summit Avenue, from 24th to 26th Street, with additional facilities a block south on Kerrigan Avenue. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.
  As of the 2017-18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,899 students and 185.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 15.7:1. There were 2,187 students eligible for free lunch and 288 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
  The school administratively formed in 2008, with athletic teams combined, but for the first year the students were still at their former buildings. Its current building opened in September 2009, at that time merging the student bodies of the city's prior two high schools, Union Hill High School and Emerson High School, and marking the first high school opened in the city in 90 years.
context_section_description: Union City High School holds Freshman through Senior students. The Academy for Enrichment and Advancement (AEA), which is housed one block south on Kerrigan Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets, is a special interest academy that is part of the high school. The AEA provides classes for students of grades 9 - 12 who show interest in the fields of science and engineering.
  
  Since its inaugural school year, Union City High School has offered college-level courses to students, and through its partnerships with nearby colleges and universities, increased the number of such courses for the 2010–2011 school year, enabling students to accumulate up to 12 - 15 college credits by graduation that can be transferred to New Jersey public colleges. In addition to Liberal Arts courses, students can take advanced placement biology, chemistry, physics, anatomy & physiology, forensic science, robotics, geometry, algebra 2, and calculus at the AEA. Students preparing for civil engineering and architecture careers can take pre-engineering, computer networking and computer aided design (CAD) at the AEA. The AEA offers a course in Mandarin Chinese added in 2016, making it one of the few high schools in New Jersey to do so. The Advanced Placement participation rate in the school was 13%.
caption: The Academy for Enrichment and Advancement
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