Hasbrouck Heights High School

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Hasbrouck Heights High School
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Hasbrouck Heights High School
Address
Hasbrouck Heights High School
365 Boulevard

Hasbrouck Heights
,
Bergen County
,
New Jersey
07604

United States
Coordinates 40°52′01″N74°04′24″W / 40.866816°N 74.073362°W / 40.866816; -74.073362
Information
Type Public high school
School district Hasbrouck Heights School District
NCES School ID340693000512 [1]
PrincipalLinda Simmons
Faculty42.4 FTEs [1]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment547 (as of 2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio12.9:1 [1]
Color(s)  Orange and
  black [2]
Athletics conference North Jersey Interscholastic Conference
Team nameAviators [2]
Rival Wood-Ridge High School
YearbookCoronian
Website www.hhschools.org/HS

Hasbrouck Heights High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hasbrouck Heights and Teterboro in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone high school of the Hasbrouck Heights School District.

Contents

The district serves students from Teterboro, a non-operating district that was merged into the Hasbrouck Heights School District following its dissolution on July 1, 2010. [3]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 547 students and 42.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1. There were 57 students (10.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 27 (4.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 138th-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. [4] The school had been ranked 72nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 107th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. [5] The magazine ranked the school 82nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. [6] The school was ranked 92nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. [7] Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 49th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 14 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (93.2%) and language arts literacy (96.6%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). [8]

Athletics

The Hasbrouck Heights Aviators [2] participate in the Meadowlands Conference of 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). [9] [10] [11] Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Hasbrouck Heights was a part of the Bergen County Scholastic League. [12] With 418 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. [13] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 254 to 474 students. [14] The team nickname is the Aviators. [2]

The school participates in joint boys / girls swimming teams with Garfield High School as the host school / lead agency. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. [15]

Baseball

The baseball team won the North I, Group I state sectional championship in 2007, topping Verona High School by a score of 7–4 in the tournament final. [16]

In 2021, the team defeated Kinnelon High School for the North I, Group I state sectional championship by a score of 6–2. [17]

Girls' basketball

In 2015, the girls' basketball team won the North I, Group I state sectional championship with a 40-27 victory against Wood-Ridge High School in the tournament final, the first state title for any of the school's basketball teams. [18]

Football

The football team was awarded the North I Group I sectional championship by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association in 1945, 1946, 1947 [19] [20] 1952, 1954 (as co-champion), 1955, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1969 and 1972. [21] Since the playoff system was introduced in 1974, the team has won the NJSIAA North I Group I state sectional championship in 1975, 1976, 1994, 2007, 2016 and 2017 and won the North II Group I title in 2018. [22] Hasbrouck Heights High School has won a total of 18 Group I state sectional championships, 11 which were awarded by the NJSIAA and seven won by playoff. In 1969, the Aviators went undefeated at 9–0, setting a county record after scoring 478 points and earning top-ten rankings nationally and the top spot in the state. [23] [24]

In 1975, the Heights team went 10–0–1 and won the North I, Group I state sectional title by defeating Ridgefield Memorial High School 22-6 in the championship game in the second year that the NJSIAA held playoffs for sectional titles. [25] [26] They were also the BCSL National champions that season. [27] In 1976, the 11–0 Heights Aviators repeated as North I, Group I sectional champions by defeating Mahwah High School in the finals and were the league champions of the BCSL National. [27] In 1994, the Heights team went 10–1 and won the North I, Group I state sectional championship by defeating North Arlington High School by a score of 14–6 at the tournament final at Giants Stadium. [28]

In 2007, the team finished the season with 12–0 record after winning the North I, Group I state sectional championship with a 26-16 win over New Milford High School, in a game played at Giants Stadium. [29] [30] [31] The team also won the BCSL Olympic league championship. [27]

The team won the North I, Group I state sectional title in 2016 with a 30–12 win against New Milford High School in the tournament final. [32]

In 2017, the team won its second consecutive North I, Group I state sectional title—its sixth overall in the playoff era—with a 39–14 win against sixth-seeded Pompton Lakes High School in the final game of the playoffs, played at Kean University. [33] [34]

The team won their third consecutive sectional title in 2018, winning the North II Group I title with a 13–7 win against Malcolm X Shabazz High School in the finals of the playoff tournament [35] and went on to win the North Group I bowl game with a 41–7 win against Butler High School. [36]

The Hasbrouck Heights football Aviators natural rival by geographic location are the Wood-Ridge High School Blue Devils. The two programs had one of the state's longest Thanksgiving Day rivalry games dating back to 1941, [37] and lasting until a final game in the series in 2009, after which realignment prevented a continuation of the match-up. [38] Hasbrouck Heights had an overall 55–12–1 record in the Thanksgiving Day match-up with Wood-Ridge, including a 21-year Thanksgiving Day game winning streak. [37]

Girls' soccer

The joint Hasbrouck Heights/Wood-Ridge High School soccer team won the North I Group II state sectional championship in 2008 with a 2–0 win against Glen Rock High School. [39]

Tennis

In 1968, the men's tennis team had a perfect 17-0 record. They won the BCSL title and became the only men's sports team to go undefeated for an entire season. [40]

In 2013, the top-ranked boys' tennis team beat Cedar Grove High School by 3–2 to claim the North I Group I state sectional title. [41]

Wrestling

The recreation level wrestling program was established in the 1970s. In 1976, heavyweight Bill Spindler became the school's first NJSIAA state champion, pinning each of his opponents on his way to the gold medal. [42]

The Aviators captured their first North I Group I state sectional championship in 1989 after a one-sided victory over defending champion Waldwick High School. The team was back-to-back champions in 1990, and won again in 1993 and 1995, before winning on North II Group I in 2006 and 2007. [43] For their accomplishments, the 1989 team was elected to the Hasbrouck Heights Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.

In 2001, Morgan Horner won the 189 lb. weight class at the NJSIAA championships defeating the defending champion. [42] This accomplishment earned Horner the award for the championship's Most Outstanding Wrestler. [44]

The 2006 team won the state North II, Group I sectional title. [43] [45] The 2007 team repeated as North II, Group I state sectional championship with a 46–16 win vs. Madison High School. [43] [46]

Girls' track & field

The spring track program won state sectional championships in 1994 and 1998.[ citation needed ]

Boys' track & field

The boys' outdoor team won state sectional titles in 1970, 1994, 2006, and have finished 2nd in the state group championships in 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010. The 2010 boys' 4 × 400 team won the league, county group, state sectional, and state group championships, setting new meet records in the county and state sectional.

The boys' track team won the 2011 Group I indoor relay championships. [47]

Extracurricular activities

Pilot's Log

The high school publishes Pilot's Log, an award-winning student newspaper. At the 2006 National Scholastic Press Association Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Pilot's Log earned the highest accolade of "best in show" for newspapers with 13–16 pages, from all high schools, regardless of size. [48] The newspaper staff also won a National Pacemaker Award for the publication, one of 26 high school publications nationwide to be recognized, unofficially known as the "Pulitzer Prizes of student journalism". [49]

Theatrical performances

Every school year, a selected performance is created by students under the supervision of the school's communications teacher Erin Schneeweiss. A different play is performed every year.

Music

The school holds a concert three times during the school year in which the concert band and jazz band, directed by Joseph Ascolese, perform. The marching band, also directed by Ascolese, recently came in first place in Best Music as well as Best Effect during the 2012 USSBA Competition.

Administration

The principal is Linda Simmons. Her administration team includes the vice principal. [50] [51]

On March 22, 2014, superintendent of schools Dr. Mark Porto resigned for "personal reasons". Porto, who was under contract with the Hasbrouck Heights school system until June 30, 2018, earned $157,500 and was to be paid through September 19, 2014. [52]

Notable alumni

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  18. ↑ Mills, Ed. "H.S. girls' basketball: Hasbrouck Heights enjoys first sectional title", The Record , March 10, 2015. Accessed March 10, 2015. "Sparked by that aggressive 1-3-1 and a combined 33 points from Stacey Porzl (13), Stefanie Pagan (10) and Hannah Bailey (10), Hasbrouck Heights defeated Wood-Ridge, 40-27, Monday night in the North 1, Group 1 girls' basketball championship game. It is the first sectional title in school history for the Aviators' basketball programs — girls or boys."
  19. ↑ "Five Bergen High School Teams Win State Grid Crowns; Rutherford Draws Fire From Mahon; East Rutherford Coach Maintains His Team Played The Toughies; Leonia Gets a Tie; Hasbrouck Heights And Garfield Champions In Groups 1 And 4", The Record , December 5, 1945. Accessed February 23, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Two Bergen County high school football teams won championships outright and three others shared crowns, the Executive Committee of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association announced last night after a meeting at the Hotel Hildenbrecht in Trenton. The Champs:. ... And Andy Kmetz's Hasbrouck Heights Aviators, are North Jersey, Section 1, Group 1 champs."
  20. ↑ "Kmetz Resigns Grid Post At Hasbrouck Heights; Aviators Won Nine Championships During Andy's 17-Year Reign; Track Coach Quits", Herald News , March 10, 1956. Accessed February 23, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Andy Kmetz has resigned as head football coach at Hasbrouck Heights High School. ... During that span the Aviators captured six Group One state championships and three Bergen County Scholastic League titles. The Aviators won state championship in 1945, '46, '47, '52, '54 and last year. They also won the state crown in 1953, but forfeited it because of use of an ineligible transfer student."
  21. ↑ Conrad, JJ; and Iseman, Chris. "NJ HS football championships: How past finalists fared", The Record , November 27, 2016. "Although the state established the current playoff format in 1974, titles have been awarded for decades. Here are the most decorated North Jersey teams playing for a title this weekend, listed by their state championship totals: ... Hasbrouck Heights (12): 1952, 1954 (co-champs), 1955, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1994, 2007"
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  24. ↑ Gantaifis, Nick. "H.S. football coaching legend Pete LaBarbiera dies", The Record , December 16, 2016. Accessed February 23, 2021. "LaBarbiera's 1969 Hasbrouck Heights team is considered one of the great teams in state history. That year the Aviators finished with a 9–0 record and the No. 1 ranking in the state and a final top 10 national ranking. Hasbrouck Heights scored 478 points in nine games, an average of over 53 points per contest, while allowing just 62 points the entire season."
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  29. ↑ McConville, Jim. "Nass steals the show as Heights wins a title", North Jersey Sports, December 2, 2007. Accessed December 2, 2020. "After 25 carries and 164 yards, including the clinching touchdown, Nass was a champion as Heights finished off a perfect season with a come-from-behind 26–16 win. It was also a measure of revenge for HH head coach Nick Delcalzo, who watched New Milford deny him state championships in 1985 and 1986, his first two years as Aviator head coach. ... Hasbrouck Heights (12–0) then changed up and kicked off deep, and it turned into a major game-changer, as Tyler Blake stripped the return man and Mike Denichilo recovered for Heights."
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  35. ↑ Bernstein, Jason. "Hasbrouck Heights captures 3rd-straight title, holds off Shabazz in N2G1 final (Photos)", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 17, 2018, updated August 23, 2019. Accessed October 5, 2020. "That score, along with Zai'heer Jenkins' interception 49 seconds later gave Hasbrouck Heights a 13–7 victory over Shabazz in the NJSIAA/Rothman Ortopaedic North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 final at Shabazz Stadium in Newark."
  36. ↑ Cooper, Darren. "Hasbrouck Heights football shows full range of tricks, power in bowl game win", The Record , November 23, 2018. Accessed October 26, 2019. "Scoring on a pair of perfectly-executed trick plays, and with Jasiah Purdie scoring five touchdowns on the day, the Aviators downed Butler, 41–7, Friday in the North Group 1 Bowl Game at MetLife Stadium."
  37. 1 2 Armonaitis, Chip. "History of Hasbrouck Heights Football: The Aviators and Turkey Day Games", TAPinto Hasbrouck Heights - Wood-Ridge - Teterboro, November 28, 2019. Accessed December 2, 2020. "What might surprise people is that Wood-Ridge was not the only school that Hasbrouck Heights played on Thanksgiving. That rivalry did not start until 1941, some 23 seasons after Heights began playing football. ... Ignoring the last two games played mid-season, and the first of the two matchups in 1944 and 1945 when the teams played twice, the Aviators are 55–12–1 on Thanksgiving against Wood-Ridge, and 56–34–1 overall on Turkey Day."
  38. ↑ Kensik, Edward. "Two Turkey Day games continue longtime tradition", Community News, November 26, 2009. Accessed August 21, 2011. "Thanksgiving day has always been a Hasbrouck Heights vs. Wood-Ridge football game at 10:30 a.m. at the field on Route 17 or at Wood-Ridge High School off of Hackensack Avenue. Hasbrouck Heights Athletic Director John Tessaro, who has been with the district for almost 40 years, believes that the annual game is at least 60 years old."
  39. ↑ Leonard, Tim. "Defender ignites Heights' offense" Archived September 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , copy of article from The Record , November 15, 2008. Accessed August 21, 2011. "Romano had one of those moments Friday, heading home a corner kick from Megan Gwozdecke in the 16th minute of the second half as No. 1 seed Hasbrouck Heights/Wood-Ridge defeated No. 2 seed Glen Rock, 2–0, in the North 1, Group 2 girls' soccer final. The sectional title is the first for the Aviators, who face North 2 champion Caldwell in the State semifinal on Tuesday at 5 p.m. at Bridgewater-Raritan."
  40. ↑ Celentano, Rob. "Height of perfection", The Record , April 16, 2008, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 1, 2008. Accessed August 21, 2011. "During the turbulent spring of 1968 in which two of the nation's most prominent figures, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated, something special was brewing on the tennis courts at Hasbrouck Heights. ... Heights completed the only undefeated boys' tennis season in school history that year, going 17–0 to win the BCSL title when there were only eight teams in the league. The title also was the first tennis championship won by the Aviators."
  41. ↑ Jongsma, Joshua. "Boys' tennis: Cedar Grove High School reaches state finals", Verona - Cedar Grove Times, May 23, 2013. Accessed July 10, 2013. "The Cedar Grove boys' tennis team matched the program's deepest run into the state tournament, but the Panthers were stopped just short of a sectional championship by No. 1 Hasbrouck Heights. Cedar Grove battled the top-seeded Aviators (16–2) in the title bout on Monday, May 20, but ultimately fell 3–2."
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  44. ↑ Staff. "Sterling's Mark Manchio Claims Third State Crown", The Philadelphia Inquirer , March 12, 2001. Accessed May 20, 2012. "Morgan Horner (189) of Hasbrouck Heights was the tournament's outstanding wrestler. He won his semifinal and final matched by pin, and decked the top seed to win the crown."
  45. ↑ 2006 Team Wrestling - North II, Group I, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed August 2, 2007.
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  47. ↑ History of the NJSIAA Indoor Relay Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 1, 2020.
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  50. ↑ Principal, Hasbrouck Heights School District. Accessed February 22, 2022.
  51. ↑ Quartuccio, Alana. "Principals Named For Middle, High Schools: Joseph Mastropietro has been appointed as the new middle school principal, Catherine Cassidy has been appointed assistant principal to the middle school/high school.", HasbrougkHeightsPatch, May 15, 2012. Accessed May 20, 2012. "The Board of Education has named Joseph Mastropietro the new middle school principal and Catherine Cassidy as assistant principal to the middle school and high school. ... Both Mastropietro and Cassidy have been working alongside Linda Simmons who formerly was the middle school principal until she was appointed to an interim role last December overseeing both the middle and high school. She will take over as high school principal officially on July 1, a decision which was made by the Board of Education this past January."
  52. ↑ Staff. "Documents Shed Some Light On Hasbrouck Heights Superintendent Of Schools Resignation, Raise Other Questions" Archived July 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine , The Bergen Dispatch, April 4, 2014. Accessed May 31, 2016.
  53. ↑ "Social Gleanings Hasbrouck Heights", Herald News , May 23, 1967. Accessed August 22, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Bruce Aitken, son of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Aitken, 271 Williams Ave., has graduated from Florida Southern College, Lakeland, receiving a B.S. degree in economics. ... He is a 1963 graduate of Hasbrouck Heights High School."
  54. ↑ McKinley, Jesse. "Theater; Bye, Bye 'American Pie'; Mrs. Robinson Is Calling", The New York Times , March 31, 2002. Accessed February 16, 2012. "Unlike that character, Mr. Biggs was proving to be a pretty normal teenager, playing high school tennis and holding a series of menial jobs (flower delivery boy, sandwich maker, kitchen staff at a hospital). In 1996, he graduated from Hasbrouck Heights High School and started at New York University, where he enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences."
  55. ↑ Fischer, Heinz Dietrich; and Fischer, Erika J. Complete biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917-2000: Journalists, writers and composers on their ways to the coveted awards, p. 35. Walter de Gruyter, 2002. ISBN   3-598-30186-3. Accessed August 21, 2011. "Caldwell, William Anthony, born on December 5, 1906, in Butler, Pa., had just completed his sophomore year at Hasbrouck Heights High School when his father died."
  56. ↑ "The Working Class", Time , June 11, 1951. Accessed June 4, 2007. "Radio-TV Comic Arthur Godfrey, whose formal higher education consisted of 'one short year at Hasbrouck Heights High School' in New Jersey, got an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Rider College in Trenton, N.J."
  57. ↑ Wallace, Kenneth G. "Kathy, Another Godfrey; Arthur's Kid Sister Of Hasbrouck Heights Starts New T.V. Show", The Record , January 23, 1954. Accessed April 3, 2020. "She visited the station out of curiosity with a Hasbrouck Heights High School friend and one of the young owners asked her if she'd like a job, reading commercials over the air at $5 per week."
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