Midland Park High School
| Midland Park High School | |
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| Location | |
| 250 Prospect Street Midland Park, NJ 07432 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1957 |
| School district | Midland Park School District |
| Principal | Nicholas Capuano |
| Vice principal | June Chang |
| Faculty | 35 (on FTE basis)[1] |
| Grades | 7 - 12 |
| Enrollment | 496 (as of 2009-10)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 14.17[1] |
| Color(s) | green/white |
| Athletics conference | North Jersey Interscholastic Conference |
| Team name | Panthers |
| Website | School website |
Midland Park High School is a six-year comprehensive public high school located in Midland Park, New Jersey, United States. Opened in 1957, it is a junior-senior high school and is part of the Midland Park School District. It is for students in grades 7 through 12.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 496 students and 35 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.17.[1]
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[edit] Awards and recognition
The school was the 116th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 44th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[2] The school was ranked 66th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.[3] Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 76th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 55 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.7%) and language arts literacy (96.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[4]
[edit] History
A 1973 plan to have students from Ho-Ho-Kus attend Midland Park High School as part of a regional agreement never came to fruition, despite official approval and encouragement by the New Jersey State Board of Education. Ridgewood had been hosting students in grades 9 to 12 from Ho-Ho-Kus for 75 years at Ridgewood High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship, though the board of education of the Ridgewood Public Schools decided to end the arrangement in 1973 due to overcrowding. A proposed regionalization agreement between Ho-Ho-Kus and Ridgewood had been rejected by voters from both communities in 1969. The state had recommended the formation of a regionalization agreement between Ho-Ho-Kus and Midland Park, though the choices of funding the combined district based on either property values or on the number of students would mean that one borough would shoulder higher costs than the other, regardless of which method was selected.[5] Students from Ho-Ho-Kus attended the school through the 1990s, when the choice was made to shift students to Northern Highlands Regional High School.[6]
[edit] Athletics
The Midland Park High School Panthers compete in Patriot Division B of the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference (NJIC), made up of private and public high schools located in Bergen County, Hudson County and Passaic County, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.[7][8] Prior to the realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Midland Park was a member of the smaller Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League (BPSL).
On November 9, 2007, the boy's soccer team defeated number 1 seed Wallington High School to claim the North I, Group I state sectional championship. The game was tied 1-1 at the end of regulation and was decided on penalty kicks by a 5-4 margin.[9][10]
On November 10, 2007, the girl's volleyball team lost to Bogota High School in the title match of the 27-team Group I tournament at William Paterson University by scores of 22-25, 25-18 and 25-13.[11]
In the Spring of 2009, Juinor javelin thrower Kaleb Zuidema broke the New Jersey record with a throw of 224 feet. Zuidema also went on to win the 2009 Penn Relays and won the High School Javelin National Championship.
In the fall of 2010, the boys soccer team lost in the finals of the North 1 Group 1 championship to Wallington 2-1. In the Bergen Record, the North Jersey Boys Soccer Top 25 placed Midland Park at number 7 when the season had come to an end. That season the team also won the NJIC Patriot B Soccer Title.
In the fall of 2011 both the girls soccer and the girls volleyball lost in the State Sectional Championships. Girls Soccer lost to Verona to a score of 1-0 and Girls Volleyball lost to Bogota High School, 25-20, 25-17.
[edit] Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Midland Park High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 22, 2011.
- ^ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed March 25, 2011.
- ^ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
- ^ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 27, 2012.
- ^ Staff. "High-School Merger in Doubt", The New York Times, April 29, 1973. Accessed August 22, 2011.
- ^ Peterson, Iver. "Taxes May Fuse School Districts; Rising Expenses Test New Jerseyans' Love of Local Control", The New York Times, April 29, 1994. Accessed August 22, 2011. "The proposed district would send Ho-Ho-Kus ninth graders to Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale. Northern Highlands High is nationally known for quality, but it is operating at just over half capacity and desperately seeking ties to other districts. Now, Ho-Ho-Kus children go to Midland Park High School after eighth grade."
- ^ League Memberships – 2011-2012, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed February 27, 2012.
- ^ Home page, North Jersey Interscholastic Conference. Accessed August 22, 2011.
- ^ 2007 Boys Soccer - North I, Group I, NJSIAA. Accessed November 10, 2007.
- ^ Martin, Kimberley A. "Celebrating a penalty", The Record (Bergen County), November 10, 2007. Accessed November 10, 2007.
- ^ 2007 Girls Volleyball - Group I, NJSIAA. Accessed July 30, 2008.
- ^ Midland Park High School Principal, Midland Park High School. Accessed December 4, 2011.
- ^ Vice Principal, Midland Park High School. Accessed December 4, 2011.
[edit] External links
- Midland Park High School Website
- Midland Park School District
- Midland Park School District's 2009–10 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Midland Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics
Coordinates: 41°00′00″N 74°08′19″W / 41.000118°N 74.138713°W
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