Garfield High School (New Jersey)

Garfield High School is a four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Garfield, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Garfield Public Schools.

Garfield High School
Address
500 Palisade Avenue

Garfield
,
Bergen County
,
New Jersey
07026

United States
Coordinates40.881798°N 74.112094°W / 40.881798; -74.112094
Information
TypePublic high school
MottoTo promote success
EstablishedSeptember 1956
School districtGarfield Public Schools
NCES School ID340576000466[1]
PrincipalDora D'Amico
Faculty104.0 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,120 (as of 2021–22)[1]
Student to teacher ratio10.8:1[1]
Color(s)  Gold and
  Purple[2]
Athletics conferenceNorth Jersey Interscholastic Conference
Team nameBoilermakers[2]
NewspaperThe Quill[3]
YearbookRetrospect[3]
Websiteghs.gboe.org

As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,120 students and 104.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. There were 517 students (46.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 142 (12.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

History

Garfield High School, constructed at an estimated cost of $1.8 million (equivalent to $19.4 million in 2022), opened in September 1956 with about 1,040 students registered, in excess of the maximum designed enrollment of 1,000. The new school replaced two former elementary schools that had been used on an interim basis to accommodate high school students.[4]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 294th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 337 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2016 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools".[5] The school was the 307th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's 2014 rankings of the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.[6]

The school had been ranked 321st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 286th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[7] The magazine ranked the school 285th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[8]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school 292nd out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 19 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 2012, Schooldigger.com ranked Garfield High School 306th out of 389 New Jersey High Schools in combined HSPA scores in the state, an increase of 10 positions from 2011.[10]

Athletics

The Garfield High School Boilermakers[2] participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which is comprised of small-enrollment schools in Bergen, Hudson, Morris and Passaic counties, and was created following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[11][12][13] Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Garfield was a member of the smaller Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League (BPSL).[14] With 810 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range.[15] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III North for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 680 to 884 students.[16]

The school participates as the host school / lead agency for joint boys / girls swimming teams with Hasbrouck Heights High School. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.[17]

The 1939 football team defeated Miami (Fla.) High School in a game played at the Miami Orange Bowl in front of a crowd of 25,000 by a score of 16-13, capturing the program's first ever national championship.[18]

The boys baseball team won the North I Group IV state sectional championships in both 1962 and 1965.[19]

The girls volleyball team competed in the Group II state championships, falling to Tenafly High School in 1982 and Fort Lee High School in 1988.[20]

The wrestling team won the North I Group II state sectional championship in 1990.[21]

The girls track team won the Group II indoor state championship in 1991.[22]

The 2015 boys soccer team defeated Dover High School by a score of 4-2 in the tournament final to win the North II Group II state sectional championship, the program's first state title since 1975.[23] The team defeated Holmdel High School by a 2-1 margin, scoring twice with a little more than two minutes remaining in the game, to win the Group II state title at Kean University and capture the program's first state championship.[24][25]

Administration

The school's principal is Dora D'Amico. Her administration team includes two vice principals.[26]

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

Notable current and former faculty members include:

  • Dick Vitale (born 1939), sports broadcaster who coached a single season at Garfield High School (1963–64).[37]

References
  1. School data for Garfield High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022.
  2. Garfield High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. Student Handbook 2021-2022, Garfield High School. Accessed March 24, 2022.
  4. "Garfield's New High School", Herald News, September 17, 1956. Accessed March 24, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The city's first school built expressly to be a high school has opened. Previously, Garfield High School students went to Schools 6 and 9, old elementary schools which had been converted and which were at best makeshifts. The new high school was designed for 1,000 pupils. Already it is bulging, as 1,047 students have registered.... The final cost of the high school is not yet known, but it is expected to come to approximately $1,800,000."
  5. Davis, Tom. "337 N.J. High Schools Ranked Highest By NJ Monthly", Morristown Patch, September 8, 2016. Accessed December 10, 2016.
  6. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed March 27, 2016.
  7. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 1, 2012.
  8. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 1, 2011.
  9. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed January 9, 2012.
  10. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2011-2012, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 4, 2013.
  11. 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."
  12. Member Schools, North Jersey Interscholastic Conference. Accessed August 30, 2020.
  13. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  14. 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 October 25, 2014.
  15. NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  16. NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2022–2024, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 1, 2023.
  17. NJSIAA Winter Cooperative Sports Programs, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 1, 2020.
  18. Conrad, J.J. "H.S. football: Garfield to commemorate 1939 national championship", The Record, October 10, 2014. Accessed December 10, 2016. "Garfield went 10-0 and captured a national championship that year, defeating Miami (Fla.) High School, 16-13, in a game coined the 'Infantile Paralysis Bowl' in honor of then President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who suffered from the affliction better known as polio. The Boilermakers — who were invited to play what would be considered today as a 'plus-one' game — were hand-picked to take on the undefeated Florida power riding an 18-game winning streak in the prestigious Orange Bowl before a crowd of what Young estimated to be approximately 25,000."
  19. NJSIAA Baseball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 1, 2023.
  20. NJSIAA Girls Volleyball Group Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 1, 2023.
  21. NJSIAA Wrestling Team Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  22. NJSIAA Indoor Group Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  23. Staff. "H.S. boys soccer: Garfield wins North 2, Group 2 state sectional championship", The Record, November 14, 2015. Accessed March 27, 2016. "The Garfield boys soccer team won its first state sectional championship since 1975 by beating host Dover, 4-2, in the North 2, Group 2 championship on Friday at the Dover Middle School."
  24. NJSIAA History of Boys Soccer, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 1, 2022.
  25. Olivero, Antonio. "Look back at live analysis: Garfield shocks Holmdel with 2 goals in 27 seconds, wins 1st ever G2 title", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 21, 2015. Accessed March 27, 2016.
  26. 2020-2021 Student Handbook, Garfield High School. Accessed March 3, 2021.
  27. Miles Austin, Cleveland Browns. Accessed October 25, 2014. "A native of Garfield, N.J., Austin was a two-year letterman as a wide receiver and defensive back at Garfield High School."
  28. Staff. "Wide Reception: NFLer Miles Austin cherishes his Garfield roots", Bergen.com, October 10, 2012. Accessed October 25, 2014.
  29. Riley, Lori. "The Road Is Fruitful For Peaches", Hartford Courant, November 18, 1999. Accessed June 25, 2022. "She lives in Lodi, N.J., but she grew up with Knebl in nearby Garfield.... Knebl was sophomore at Garfield High School when she first tried out for the Peaches, the most successful team in the league."
  30. La Gorce, Tammy. "Rascal on the Rebound: Eddie Brigati Back On Stage; Bitter memories aside, Eddie Brigati, singer of the hitmaking '60s group the Rascals, is stoked to be back on stage with his mates, thanks to a boost from Steve Van Zandt.", New Jersey Monthly, February 11, 2013. Accessed May 26, 2016. "If Brigati thinks so too, he's not saying—partly out of humility, partly because he doesn't want to talk about the past. 'It's all documented, you can read about that,' he says in the living room of one of his New Jersey homes—the one he calls his 'music house,' in North Jersey, where he keeps his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame statuettes directly across from his 1963 Garfield High School diploma."
  31. Luis Castillo player profile, National Football League Players Association. Accessed July 24, 2007. "Hometown: Garfield, N.J....SuperPrep All-America at Garfield High School in Garfield, New Jersey…first-team all-state and all-county as junior and senior by Associated Press and Newark Star-Ledger…three-time first-team all-league choice…team captain and team MVP as senior…also lettered in track and wrestling as state's top heavyweight"
  32. Hermoso, Rafael. "Garfield's Chrebet Hopes To Impress Jets", The Record, May 4, 1995. Accessed December 5, 2007. "Wayne Chrebet wasn't exactly overconfident when he began his football career as a sophomore at Garfield High School."
  33. City Manager's Office, City of Garfield. Accessed June 28, 2020. "Thomas J. Duch attended Columbus School #8, graduated from Garfield High School, graduated from Lehigh University with High Honors, and completed his legal education at Seton Hall University School of Law where he received a Doctorate of Jurisprudence."
  34. Gianfranco Iannotta, Team USA. Accessed December 13, 2019. "Birthplace: Passaic, N.J. Hometown: Garfield, N.J. High School: Garfield High School (Garfield, N.J.) '12"
  35. Sam Sebo, profootballarchives.com. Accessed August 20, 2018.
  36. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 1985, p. 279. Accessed June 28, 2020. "Assemblyman Visotcky was born in Garfield Oct. 3, 1929. He is a graduate of Garfield High School, and is a collection office representative for the Public Service Electric & Gas Company."
  37. Dick Vitale bio, ESPN.com. Accessed June 13, 2011. "He began coaching at the high school level at Garfield High School, where he coached for one season (1963-64)."
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