Wayne Hills High School | |
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Location | |
272 Berdan Avenue Wayne, NJ 07470 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Motto | Rock Solid Tradition |
Established | 1966 |
School district | Wayne Public Schools |
Principal | Maureen Weir |
Asst. principal | Jennifer Badami Edward Zambrano (9th) Michael Rewick (10th) Jeffrey Wojcik (11th) Christina Ventimiglia (12th) |
Faculty | 113.4 FTEs |
Grades | Freshman - Senior |
Enrollment | 1,379 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 12.2:1 |
Color(s) |
Maroon and white |
Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
Team name | Patriots |
Publication | The Patriot Press |
Website | School website |
Wayne Hills High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school, in Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of the two secondary schools that are part of the Wayne Public Schools, the other being Wayne Valley High School.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,379 students and 113.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1. There were 94 students (6.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 23 (1.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 222nd out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 35th among all high schools in New Jersey and 18th among the state's non-magnet schools.
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 64th in New Jersey and 1,902nd nationwide. In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Wayne Hills High School was listed in 1102nd place, the 34th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.
The school was the 65th-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. The school had been ranked 35th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 51st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 60th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 70th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.