Wayne Hills High School
Template:Infobox School II Wayne Hills High School is a comprehensive community public high school, one of the two high schools in Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Wayne Public Schools. The mascot is a Patriot.
As of the 2004-05 school year, there was a student population of 1,353 students with 96.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis). This equates to a 14.0:1 student-teacher ratio. There were 148 Asian, 14 Black, 68 Hispanic, and 1,123 White students.[1]
Awards and recognition
In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Wayne Hiils High School was listed in 1102nd place, the 34th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.[2]
Wayne Hills High School was the 70th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.[3]
Sports
Wayne Hills sports teams include: volleyball, soccer, tennis, football, field hockey, basketball, cheerleading, bowling, wrestling, skiing, fencing, ice hockey, track and field, swimming, cross country, lacrosse, gymnastics, baseball, softball and golf.
The Wayne Hills Patriots are one of twelve teams participating in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League (NBIAL), and is the only team outside Bergen County participating in the league.
The football team has won four state championships in the five years through 2006, reigning as the three-time defending champs of North 1 Group 3. The team has accumulated a 41-6 record during the four seasons through 2006, including two recent undefeated seasons with the team going 12-0.
The football team was in the 2005 playoffs as the top seed in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating #8-seed Teaneck High School 40-6 and number-four Ramapo High School 41-13, and then crushing third-seeded Parsippany Hills High School 46-0 in the sectional finals.[4]
In 2006, the team came in seeded second in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating 7th-seed Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan 37-7 and 6th-seed Passaic Valley Regional High School 33-0. In the state finals, played at Rutgers University on December 2, 2006, Wayne Hills defeated fourth-seeded Parsippany Hills High School 23-12, the second consecutive year the two faced each other in the finals.[5]
The Wayne Hills Patriots football team is ranked 2nd behind Don Bosco Prep in New Jersey. The Patriots are the three-time defending state champions of North 1 Group 3. The team was ranked 7th in the East region by USA Today in their final 2006 Super 25 prep football regional rankings.[6]
The Wayne Hills Boys track team were 2003 State Champions.
Currently Wayne Hills also has the reigning county champions in Boys and Girls Tennis.
Notable alumni
The following attended Wayne Hills High School:
- [[Mike Rudner (Co-host) Hosts Mets podcast at NYMetscast.com [7] and is an Editorial Producer for Major League Baseball.
- Chris Carter and fellow founding members of Dramarama
- Stacey Mitnick, a pornographic movie actress who used the stage name Barbara Dare.[8]
- Ryan Neill, Defensive End for the Buffalo Bills. Ryan previously played football for Rutgers University and was All-Big East and an SI.com All-American.[9]
- Greg Olsen, tight end who played for University of Miami, Selected as the 31st pick in the 2007 NFL draft to the Chicago Bears.[10]
- Ryan Ward, a child actor who starred in the 2002 film Far from Heaven.[11]
- Major General Guy C. Swan III, commanding general of the Military District of Washington.[12]
See also
References
- ^ statistics for Wayne Hills High School from the National Center for Education Statistics, accessed December 13, 2006.
- ^ "The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools", Newsweek, May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007.
- ^ Top Public High Schools in New Jersey: 51-100, New Jersey Monthly, September 2006
- ^ NJSIAA 2005 Football - North I, Group III, accessed June 5, 2006.
- ^ NJSIAA 2006 Football - North I, Group III, accessed December 6, 2006.
- ^ Super 25 prep football regional rankings, USA Today, December 26, 2006.
- ^ [1]
- ^ Biography of Barbara Dare, from Lukeford.com
- ^ Rutgers' Ryan Neill, USF's Samantha Ray Selected as Nominees for NCAA Sportsmanship Award
- ^ Greg Olsen biography at University of Miami Athletics Web Site, accessed April 2, 2007.
- ^ Ryan Ward biography, Internet Movie Database, accessed April 2, 2007.
- ^ Barry, Jan. "Army general from Wayne had key role at Ford funeral", The Record (New Jersey), January 1, 2007. Accessed July 20, 2007. "Swan, who grew up in Wayne, was the military escort for Betty Ford at the funeral ceremonies in California and in the nation's capital, where he is the commander of the Military District of Washington. Swan's widely televised role as Mrs. Ford's escort set off a buzz among former neighbors in the Pines Lake section where he grew up and among Wayne Hills High School classmates."
External links
- Wayne Hills High School website
- School Performance Report for Wayne Hills High School, New Jersey Department of Education
- National Center for Education Statistics data for Wayne Hills High School