Bogota High School

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Bogota Jr./Sr. High School
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Address
Bogota High School
2 Henry C. Luthin Place

Bogota
,
Bergen County
,
New Jersey
07603

United States
Coordinates 40°52′41″N74°01′28″W / 40.8781°N 74.0245°W / 40.8781; -74.0245
Information
Type Public high school
School district Bogota Public Schools
NCES School ID340192000284 [1]
PrincipalKelly Foley DeCongelio
Faculty37.6 FTEs [1]
Grades 7 – 12
Enrollment442 (as of 2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio11.8:1 [1]
Color(s)  Purple and
  Gold [2]
Athletics conference North Jersey Interscholastic Conference
Team nameBuccaneers [2]
PublicationThe Outloook (literary publication) [3]
NewspaperThe Klaxon [3]
YearbookThe Purple "B" [3]
Website www.bogotaboe.com/o/bjshs

Bogota High School (formally known as Bogota Jr./Sr. High School) is a comprehensive public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Bogota, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Bogota Public Schools.

Contents

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 442 students and 37.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. There were 148 students (33.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 56 (12.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]

History

Students from Maywood began attending Hackensack High School in September 1966, after the Maywood Public Schools ended a longstanding sending relationship under which students had attended Bogota High School. [4]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 200th-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. [5] The school had been ranked 259th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 151st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. [6] The magazine ranked the school 173rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. [7] The school was ranked 132nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [8]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 278th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 48 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). [9]

Athletics

The Bogota High School Buccaneers [2] participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which is comprised of small-enrollment schools in Bergen, Hudson, Morris and Passaic counties, and was created following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). [10] [11] [12] Prior to the realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Bogota was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) in the Olympic Division. [13] With 258 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range. [14] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 254 to 474 students. [15]

The school participates as the host school / lead agency for a joint wrestling team with Ridgefield Park High School. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. [16]

Interscholastic sports offered include: [2]

The boys basketball team won the Group II state championship in 1935 (defeating Cranford High School in the tournament finals), 1944 (vs. Lakewood High School) and 1990 (vs. Haddonfield Memorial High School). [17] The team won the 1935 title with a 28–24 win in the playoff finals against Cranford. [18] The 1944 team won the Group II title with a 36–34 win against Lakewood in the championship game at the Elizabeth Armory on a shot scored with three seconds left in the game. [19] [20] The 1990 team, led by former North Carolina Tar Heel Pat Sullivan, won the NJ Group I state basketball title with a 47–44 win against Haddonfield and won the Bergen County Tournament, defeating non-public power Bergen Catholic High School in the championship game. [21] [22] Down by five points in the last minute of regulation in the championship game, the 1993 team tied Ramapo High School to force overtime and went on to win the Bergen County Jamboree by a score of 60–57. [23]

The boys cross country team won the Group II state championship in 1960. [24] The team won the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Bergen County Division D Championship.

The 1969 baseball team, led by pitcher Rich Graham, won the Bergen County Baseball Tournament defeating Bergenfield High School by a 3–0 score in the finals. [25] Graham was recognized by The Record as its Athlete of the Week for his efforts as well as being named the MVP of the tournament.[ citation needed ]

The girls volleyball team won the Group I state championship in 1987 (defeating runner-up Midland Park High School in the final match of the playoffs), 2007 (vs. Midland Park), 2010 (vs. Madison High School), 2011 (vs. Science Park High School), 2012 (vs. Secaucus High School), 2013 (vs. Rutherford High School), 2015 (vs. Leonia High School), 2016 (vs. Verona High School), 2018 (vs. Verona), 2019 (vs. Kinnelon High School) and 2021 (vs. Delaware Valley Regional High School). The program's 11 state titles are the fourth-most in the state. [26] The 2012 team won the Bergen County Tournament, defeating Immaculate Heart Academy in the finals, then faced Immaculate Heart in the finals of the Tournament of Champions and losing in three sets. [27] In 2019, the team won its eighth Group I title in ten seasons with a win in the final match against Kinnelen High School by scores of 25–18 and 25–11. [28]

The girls cross country team won the Group I state championship in 1994 and 1996. [29]

The Buccaneers came into the 2006 state football tournament ranked first in their bracket, and proceeded to beat #8 seed Cresskill High School by a score of 36–7 in the first round and fourth-ranked Hasbrouck Heights High School by 24–17 in the semifinal game. [30] On December 1, 2006, Bogota beat sixth seed Mountain Lakes High School 28–0 at Giants Stadium, to take home the North 1, Group I state championship. This was Bogota's first football state championship since 1957, and their first since the playoff era started in the 1970s. [31] [32] [33]

In 2009, Emmanuel Ajagbe became Bogota's first wrestling state champion, winning the 145 pound title at the state finals at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. [34]

Clubs

Clubs and extracurricular activities include: [35]

Administration

The school's principal is Kelly Foley DeCongelio. Her administration team includes the vice principal. [36]

Notable alumni

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  20. ↑ "Lakewood Nosed Out Shot With 3 Seconds Left Decides Thriller", Asbury Park Press , March 26, 1944. Accessed December 27, 2020, via Newspapers.com. "Capping one of the most magnificent individual exhibitions ever seen in the N. J. S. I. A. A. basketball tourney competition, Don Casey spoiled Lakewood high school's first bid for a state title by firing in a spectacular one-handed shot from the side three seconds before the game ended to enable Bogota high school to nose out the Piners, Central Jersey champions, for the Croup 2 crown at the Elizabeth armory yesterday afternoon."
  21. ↑ Mattura, Greg. "Bogota basketball coach Jay Mahoney resigns", The Record , April 1, 2011. Accessed June 12, 2011. "He is the only coach from a Group 1 school to twice win the Jamboree title (1990, 1993) in its 55-year history. He won the State Group 1 title in 1990.... Bogota's finest season under Mahoney was 1989–90, when the Bucs won Jamboree and State titles and forged a 31-game winning streak before losing to Snyder in the Tournament of Champions."
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  25. ↑ Drogo, Ron. "Graham Cool As Ice In 3–0 Bogota Triumph", The Record , June 8, 1969. Accessed November 10, 2020. "A lot of ice, a few errors, the suicide squeeze and even an occasional base hit brought Bogota the Bergen County baseball titie Saturday. Rich Graham, making his third start in four days, hurled a six-hit shutout as the Bucs defeated Bergenfield, 3–0, in the finals of the County tournament."
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