Secaucus High School

Secaucus High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Secaucus, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Secaucus Board of Education. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.[4] Since 2010, the school has improved its academic ratings. Students are able to compete in interscholastic sporting events, and one of the school's teams won multiple state championships in the 2000s.

Secaucus High School
Location
Secaucus High School
Secaucus High School
Secaucus High School
11 Mill Ridge Road
Secaucus, NJ 07094

United States
Coordinates40.801948°N 74.050333°W / 40.801948; -74.050333
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtSecaucus Board of Education
NCES School ID3414850[1]
PrincipalSteve Viggiani[2]
Assistant PrincipalAmanda Wargocki[2]
Faculty54.3 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment627 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio11.5:1[1]
Color(s)     Scarlet
     White and
     Blue[3]
Athletics conferenceNorth Jersey Interscholastic Conference
Team namePatriots[3]
AccreditationMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools[4]
WebsiteSchool website

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 627 students and 54.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1. There were 144 students (23.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 60 (9.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 155th-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 90th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 102nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[6] The magazine ranked the school 103rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.[7] The school was ranked 107th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[8] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 215th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 34 positions from the 2009 rank) 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] In 2017, the school was ranked #71 in New Jersey and earned a silver medal in the U.S. News and World Report rankings of Best High Schools.[10]

Athletics

The Secaucus High School Patriots[3] compete in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which includes private and public high schools located in Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson counties, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[11] With 398 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North II, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 73 to 487 students in that grade range.[12] Prior to the realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Secaucus was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) National Division.[13]

The baseball team won the Group I state championship in 1980, defeating Monroe Township High School in the final game of the tournament.[14]

The girls' volleyball team won the 2000 Group I state championship over Bogota High School, dropping the first match by a score of 10-15 and then winning the final two matches by scores of 15-13 and 15-9.[15] The 2001 team repeated with a win over Cresskill High School in the tournament final.[16] The team took the title in 2005 with a 25-20, 25-18 straight set win over Bogota High School.[17] The 2006 team repeated as Group I championship with a 25-13, 25-12 win in the finals vs. Midland Park High School.[18]

The 2013 softball team won the North II Group I sectional championship, the program's first, defeating defending state champion Whippany Park High School by a score of 1-0.[19]

The 2019 softball team won the Hudson County Tournament after defeating Bayonne High School by a score of 5-4 in the tournament final.[20]

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:[2]

  • Steve Viggiani, Principal
  • Amanda Wargocki, Assistant Principal

References
  1. School data for Secaucus High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Staff Directory, Secaucus High School. Accessed May 14, 2020.
  3. Secaucus High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed June 2, 2016.
  4. Secaucus High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed February 8, 2018.
  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 August 22, 2012.
  7. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 18, 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, Schooldigger.com. Accessed December 31, 2011.
  10. "Secaucus High School", U.S. News and World Report. Accessed December 7, 2017.
  11. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2019-2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed April 29, 2020.
  12. General Public School Classifications 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of December 15, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  13. 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 23, 2014.
  14. History of the NJSIAA Baseball Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 25, 2017.
  15. 2000 - Group I, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 19, 2007.
  16. 2001 NJSIAA Girls Volleyball - Group I, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 19, 2007.
  17. 2005 Girls Volleyball - Group I, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 19, 2007.
  18. 2006 Girls Volleyball - Group I, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 19, 2007.
  19. Staff. "H.S. Softball: Secaucus defeats Whippany Park", The Record (Bergen County), June 1, 2013. Accessed September 21, 2013. "Secaucus 1, Whippany Park 0 (at Whippany Park): Secaucus did it in the Hudson County tournament final, and was at it again during Friday's North 2, Group 1 softball sectional championship. The fifth-seeded Patriots crashed, perhaps, the biggest party yet, shocking three-time defending sectional champion and last year's Group 1 state champion Whippany Park, 1-0, behind Danielle Roesing's four-hit shutout."
  20. Bernstein, Jason. "Secaucus rallies in the 7th, defeats Bayonne in 8 for Hudson County title", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 18, 2019, updated August 22, 2019. Accessed May 14, 2020. "After experiencing a roller-coaster of emotions in the late innings - from squandering a sixth inning lead, to overcoming a two-run deficit in the seventh to force extra-innings, sixth-seeded Secaucus emerged from it all with a 5-4 victory over top-seeded Bayonne, in eight innings, to win the Hudson County Tournament on Saturday at the Thomas M. Gerrity Athletic Complex in Jersey City."
  21. Jeff Bittiger, Baseball-Reference.com. Accessed May 14, 2020. "Born: April 13, 1962 in Jersey City, NJ... High School: Secaucus HS (Secaucus, NJ)"
  22. Tuite, James. "Players; Jersey Pitcher A Gem For Mets", The New York Times, September 28, 1982. Accessed May 14, 2020. "Players from the Sun Belt, like Strawberry, have a distinct advantage, said the 20-year-old Bittiger, who is from Secaucus, N.J.... Bittiger said that while he was attending Secaucus High he was not especially attracted to either the Mets or the Yankees."
  23. Hague, Jim. "Scoreboard: The reluctant homecoming Secaucus' Lukasiewicz never figured he'd be back pitching in Jersey", The Hudson Reporter, August 24, 2004. Accessed December 7, 2017. "After receiving his release from the Anaheim Angels last fall, Mark Lukasiewicz had a handful of offers to choose from over the winter. The Yankees called and asked if the Secaucus High School legend would be willing to sign on and pitch for them. So did the Chicago Cubs."
  24. Regal, Celeste. "Adult chorus picks up speed New town chorale promises heavenly show in May", The Hudson Reporter, February 14, 2006. Accessed October 17, 2017. "Keith Volpone, a Secaucus High School student who won in 1990, went on to write the music for the hit series The Simple Life and lives and works in Los Angeles."
  25. Livio, Susan K.; and Graber, Trish G. "Former N.J. Assemblyman Anthony Impreveduto dies at 61", The Star-Ledger, August 6, 2009. Accessed August 22, 2012. "Impreveduto, who held a master's degree in education administration from Seton Hall, had worked as a teacher and chairman of the business department at Secaucus High School, according to his biography in the Fitzgerald Legislative Manual."
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