North Arlington High School

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North Arlington High School
Address
North Arlington High School
222 Ridge Road

North Arlington
,
Bergen County
,
New Jersey
07031

United States
Coordinates 40°47′20″N74°07′58″W / 40.788921°N 74.132834°W / 40.788921; -74.132834
Information
Type Public high school
MottoPride, Loyalty, Desire [1]
Established1935
School district North Arlington School District
NCES School ID341143000636 [2]
PrincipalPatrick D. Bott [3]
Faculty49.6 FTEs [2]
Enrollment584 (as of 2022–23) [2]
Student to teacher ratio11.8:1 [2]
Color(s)Royal blue   and white  [4]
Athletics conference North Jersey Interscholastic Conference
Nickname Vikings [4]
Website www.navikings.org/hs

North Arlington High School is a public high school in North Arlington, Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the lone secondary school of the North Arlington School District.

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As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 584 students and 49.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. There were 105 students (18.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 35 (6.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [2]

History

Until September 1933, high school-aged students from North Arlington attended Kearny High School. Starting with the 1933-34 school year, students leaving eighth grade began attending Hasbrouck Heights High School. [5] By June 1934, the district had been informed that neither Kearny nor Hasbrouck Heights had capacity to host students from North Arlington. [6] In June 1935 the district announced that it would ending its relationship with Kearny after 25 years and that for the upcoming school year seniors would be in Hasbrouck Heights while about 350 students in grades 9-11 would be at a new North Arlington High School, for which the district was seeking funding to construct an appropriate building. [7]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 196th-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. [8] The school had been ranked 149th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 141st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. [9] The magazine ranked the school 198th in 2008 out of 316 schools. [10] The school was ranked 182nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [11]

Athletics

The North Arlington High School Vikings [4] participate in the Meadowlands Division of 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). [12] [13] [14] Prior to the realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, North Arlington was a part of the Bergen County Scholastic League's National division. [15] With 385 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. [16] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 254 to 474 students. [17]

The school participates in a joint cooperative boys / girls swimming and wrestling teams with Lyndhurst High School as the host school / lead agency. North Arlington and Secaucus High School participate in a joint ice hockey team, in which Kearny High School is the host school. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. [18]

The school's nickname is the Vikings, and the school colors are royal blue and white. [4] The school's athletic rivals are Lyndhurst High School and Harrison High School. The school offers many boys' and girls' athletic programs that include: [4]

Note:

^1 combined with Lyndhurst High School

The boys' basketball team won the Group I state championship in 1953 (defeating Riverside High School in the tournament final), 1956 (vs. Bordentown Regional High School) and 1957 (vs. Wildwood High School). [19] The 1953 team finished the season with a record of 18-5 after winning the Group I title with a 66-60 win against Riverside High School in the championship game played at the Elizbeth Armory. [20] [21] The 1957 won the Group I championship game with a 68-39 win against Wildwood at Dillon Gymnasium of Princeton University. [22]

The 2001 girls basketball team under Head Coach Joseph Spaccavento won the North I Group I state sectional championship over Bogota High School by a final score of 49-48. [23]

The girls volleyball team won the Group I state championship in 2004 (against runner-up Bogota High School). [24]

The boys bowling team won the Group I state championship in 2019. [25]

Notable alumni

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References

  1. ↑ Mission Statement, North Arlington High School. Accessed January 26, 2021. "This learning community will be built upon the foundation set forth by our school motto: Pride, Loyalty, Desire."
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 School data for North Arlington High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  3. ↑ Principal's Message, North Arlington High School. Accessed January 26, 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 North Arlington High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  5. ↑ "North Arlington Pays Its Tuition; Final $4,000 Sent to Keep Students at Kearny", Herald News , August 17, 1933. Accessed January 26, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Tax Collector Elbert Baker today announced that final payment of the tuition fees owed to Kearny was made yesterday and North Arlington students will be allowed to attend Kearny High School in September.... North Arlington's beginner high school students will study at Hasbrouck Heights High School. Those now at Kearny will remain there."
  6. ↑ "Placing of Students Is Borough's Problem", Herald News , June 14, 1934. Accessed January 26, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "There are 172 North Arlington high school students who will be schoolless in September unless the State Department of Education can provide facilities for them. The Borough has no facilities and in the last week has been told that Kearny High School will no longer accommodate the small group that has been there for three years arid that Hasbrouck Heights can no longer take new students."
  7. ↑ "North Arlington Ends Kearny School Tie-Up", Herald News , June 4, 1935. Accessed January 26, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "This month will see the last of North Arlington students in Kearny High School, thus ending a relationship between the communities that extended over a quarter of a century. The senior class of Kearny will have fifteen North Arlington students. Next year. North Arlington senior students will be in Hasbrouck Heights-all the rest, from the juniors down, will be in North Arlington High School.... North Arlington High School will have about 350 students in the first three classes next year, according to Dr. Lindsay.... The Borough is seeking a loan from the Federal Government to erect a suitable High School building."
  8. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly , September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  9. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly , August 16, 2012. Accessed December 2, 2012.
  10. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly , August 16, 2010. Accessed March 20, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly , September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  12. ↑ Mattura, Greg. "Small-school NJIC may debut its own league championship", The Record , January 9, 2017. Accessed August 30, 2020. "The small-school North Jersey Interscholastic Conference may debut its own boys basketball tournament this season, one season after introducing its girls hoops championship. The NJIC is comprised of schools from Bergen, Passaic and Hudson counties and the event offered to the 36 boys teams would serve as an alternative to likely competing against larger programs in a county tournament."
  13. ↑ Member Schools, North Jersey Interscholastic Conference. Accessed August 30, 2020.
  14. ↑ League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  15. ↑ New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association League Memberships – 2009-2010, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, backed up by the Internet Archive as of July 24, 2011. Accessed November 22, 2014.
  16. ↑ NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  17. ↑ NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2024–2026, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated September 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024.
  18. ↑ NJSIAA Winter Cooperative Sports Programs, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 1, 2020.
  19. ↑ NJSIAA Boys Basketball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  20. ↑ "North Arlington Cagers, Englewood Baseball Team Highlighted Year", The Record , December 31, 1953. Accessed December 24, 2020. "North Arlington High School kept live Bergen County's streak of having at least one State champ every year since 1938 by annexing the Group 1 crown at Elizabeth Armory on March 21. Coach Wilbur Ruckel's high-scoring unit, which rolled to 18 wins in 23 games and scored the amazing number of 1,751 points, defeated Riverside, 66-60, in the final."
  21. ↑ "Bloomfield Tops Jefferson, 60-45; Gains Jersey School Division Title -- Hamilton, Weehawken and North Arlington Win", The New York Times , March 22, 1953. Accessed January 12, 2021. "Jefferson High of Elizabeth only 1952 winner to reach the finals of the New Jersey State interscholastic basketball tournament, was defeated by Bloomfield High, 60-45, in the tourney finale tonight before 3,500 at the Elizabeth Armory.... North Arlington Broke into the winner's circle for the first time, taking the group 1 crown with a 66-60 victory over Riverside of Burlington County."
  22. ↑ Kurland, Bob. "North Arlington Gains Second Straight Crown; Thrashes Wildwood Club, 68-39 to retain N. J. Group 1 Title", The Record , March 18, 1957. Accessed January 26, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Standing around gaping at the airborne players are North Arlington's George Jeck (54), Wildwoods' Frank Breslin and Richard McGraw (23). The leaping Vikings came off with an easy victory, 68-39, to capture second consecutive State Group 1 championship.... Over 3,000 fans at Princeton's Dillon Gymnasium watched the Vikings give Bergen County its 36th State title in the 39-year history of the State classic."
  23. ↑ Cummins, Jeff. "North Arlington celebrates; Babatsikos beats Bogota on jumper in final seconds", The Record , March 8, 2001. Accessed April 5, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Arianna Beam was a force all night on both sides of the ball, but no play was more important than her fifth and final steal which preserved a one-point lead as North Arlington defeated Bogota, 49-48, to win the North 1, Group 1 girls basketball title."
  24. ↑ NJSIAA Girls Volleyball Group Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 1, 2023.
  25. ↑ History of NJSIAA Boys Bowling Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed August 1, 2022.
  26. ↑ Roberts, Sam. "Joseph Zadroga, Who Championed 9/11 Emergency Workers, Dies at 76", The New York Times , January 17, 2024. Accessed April 2, 2024. "After graduating from North Arlington High School, Joseph earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from William Paterson College (now William Paterson University) in Wayne, N.J., and a master’s in emergency management from Fairleigh Dickinson University."
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