Liberty High School (New Jersey)

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Liberty High School
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Address
Liberty High School (New Jersey)
299 Sip Avenue

Jersey City
,
Essex County
,
New Jersey
07306

United States
Coordinates 40°43′50″N74°03′42″W / 40.730611°N 74.06178°W / 40.730611; -74.06178
Information
Type Public high school
MottoSoar to Succeed
Established1999
School district Jersey City Public Schools
NCES School ID340783000391 [1]
PrincipalMonica Grazilla [2]
Faculty26.0 FTEs [1]
Grades 9 - 12
Enrollment188 (as of 2023–24) [1]
Student to teacher ratio7.2:1 [1]
Color(s)  Red
  White and
  Blue
Team nameEagles
Website lhs.jcboe.org

Liberty High School is a four-year public high school located in Jersey City, in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Jersey City Public Schools. The school was established in September 1999 as a partnership between the Jersey City Board of Education and Hudson County Community College.

Contents

The school offers a very small learning community, in contrast to the large comprehensive high schools in the district, offering a family-like atmosphere where students feel involved, supported and challenged. [3]

As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 188 students and 26.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.2:1. There were 91 students (48.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 12 (6.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]

History

The school was created in 1999 with the cooperation of the Jersey City school district and Hudson County Community College as a "middle college" program that would give students the skills they need to succeed in college, while allowing students to earn 24 college credits during their time in high school. The school accepted an initial ninth-grade class of 50 students, who were accepted randomly from a group of 250 applicants who met the admission criteria, with plans to accept 50 incoming students each year and a student body of 200 in grades 9-12. [4]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 268th-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 186th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 163rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. [6] The magazine ranked the school 245th in 2008 out of 316 schools. [7] The school was ranked 249th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [8] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 273rd out of 367 public high schools statewide in its 2009-10 rankings 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]

School uniforms

The school requires students to wear school uniforms consisting of white/black polo shirts with the school logo on it and khaki pants. [10]

Mascot

The school symbol is an eagle.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 School data for Liberty High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 2024.
  2. ↑ About Us, Liberty High School. Accessed April 12, 2022.
  3. ↑ Mission Statement Archived August 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine , Liberty High School. Accessed August 12, 2008.
  4. ↑ Theodore, Jeff, via The Jersey Journal . "Middle college helps bridge academic gaps", Asbury Park Press , December 19, 1999. Accessed April 12, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The school district and Hudson County Community College teamed up to provide the space for Liberty in Journal Square, where this month the high school students began to interact with college students and receive tutoring from them two days a week. It likely will not be until next year that some students are allowed to attend college classes with the chance to earn up to 24 college credits before finishing high school.... Liberty is beginning with ninth-graders and will add a grade level each year until it houses 200 high school students. The ninth-graders had to submit recommendations before their names were drawn in a lottery. Nearly 250 students applied for 50 spots."
  5. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly , September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  6. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly , August 16, 2012. Accessed December 2, 2012.
  7. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly , August 16, 2010. Accessed September 5, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly , September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  9. ↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010 [ permanent dead link ], Schooldigger.com. Accessed December 29, 2011.
  10. ↑ Liberty High School Uniform Policy Archived May 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine , Jersey City Public Schools. Accessed March 9, 2009.
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