Secaucus High School
Secaucus High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Secaucus, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Secaucus Board of Education. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1928. As of the 2020–21 school year, the school had an enrollment of 594 students and 58.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.2:1. There were 130 students (21.9% of  enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 35 (5.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. Awards, recognition and rankings. The school was the 155th-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 90th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 102nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 103rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked  107th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 215th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 34 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). In 2017, the school was ranked #71 in New Jersey and earned a silver medal in the "U.S. News and World Report" rankings of Best High Schools. Athletics. The Secaucus  High School Patriots participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which is comprised of small-enrollment schools in Bergen, Hudson, Morris and Passaic counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). Prior to the realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Secaucus was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) National Division. With 493 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included  schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the United White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II North for football for 2018–2020. The school participates with North Arlington High School in a joint ice hockey team in which Kearny High School is the host school / lead agency. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at  the end of the 2023–24 school year. The baseball team won the Group I state championship in 1980, defeating Monroe Township High School by a score of 6-0 in the final game of the tournament. The girls volleyball team won the Group II state championship in 1983 (defeating Tenafly High School in the tournament's final match), 1984 (vs. Fort Lee High School), 1985 (vs. Hawthorne High School) and 1986 (vs. Hawthorne), won the Group I title in 1988 (vs. Emerson Jr./Sr. High School), 1989 (vs. Wood-Ridge High School), 1991 (vs. Wallington High School), 1992 (vs. Eastern Christian  High School), 1993 (vs. Bogota High School), 1995 (vs. Wallington), 1996 (vs. Emerson), 1997 (vs. Boogota), 1998 (vs. Bogota), 1999 (vs. Cresskill High School), 2000 (vs. Bogota), 2001 (vs. Cresskill), 2005 (vs. Bogota), 2006 (vs. Midland Park High School) and 2014 (vs. Bogota). The program's 19 state group titles are the most in the state. The 1983 team won the program's first state title, defeating Park Ridge in two games (15-8 and 15-12) in the finals of the Group II tournament. After losing in the first game and trailing in the third, the 1984 came back  to win the Group II state title against Fort Lee in three games (14-16. 15-2, 15-11). The 1985 team won their third straight Group II title with a 15-9, 15-9 win against Hawthorne in the finals to finish the season at 22-0. In an upset of the number-one seed, the 1986 team finished with a 19-3 record after defeating Hawthorne in two games (15-6 and 15-11). The team won the 2000 Group I state championship over Bogota High School, dropping the first set by a score of 10-15 and  then winning the final 15-13 and 15–9. The 2001 team repeated with a win over Cresskill High School in the tournament final. The team took the title in 2005 with a 25–20, 25-18 straight set win over Bogota High School. The 2006 team repeated as Group I champion with a 25–13, 25–12 win in the finals against Midland Park. In 2014, the team beat Bogota 25-22 and 25-15 in the Group I title match to win the program's 19th state championship. The 2013 softball team won the North II Group I sectional championship, the program 's first, defeating defending state champion Whippany Park High School by a score of 1–0. The 2019 softball team won the Hudson County Tournament after defeating Bayonne High School by a score of 5–4 in the tournament final. Administration. Core members of the school's administration are: