West Side High School (New Jersey)

West Side High School
Location
West Side High School
West Side High School
West Side High School
403 South Orange Avenue
Newark, NJ 07103
Coordinates 40°44′28″N 74°12′11″W / 40.741149°N 74.20292°W / 40.741149; -74.20292Coordinates: 40°44′28″N 74°12′11″W / 40.741149°N 74.20292°W / 40.741149; -74.20292
Information
Type public high school
Established 1925
School district Newark Public Schools
Principal Larry Ramkinsoon
Faculty 84.0 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 810[1] (as of 2012-13)
Student to teacher ratio 9.64:1[1]
Color(s)      Green and
     White[2]
Athletics conference Super Essex Conference
Team name Roughriders[2]
Website www.nps.k12.nj.us/WSD

West Side High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school in Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Newark Public Schools.

As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 810 students and 84.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.64:1. There were 660 students (81.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 55 (6.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 326th-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.[3] The school had been ranked 268th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 319th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[4] The magazine ranked the school 313th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[5] The school was ranked 313th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[6]

History

West Side High School opened on September 14, 1925, in a building designed to provide students with classrooms, an auditorium, gyms, and other facilities, serving 520 boys and 809 girls.[7]

Athletics

The West Side High School Roughriders[2] compete in the Super Essex Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[8] With 807 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014-15 school year as North II, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 758 to 1,061 students in that grade range.[9] Prior to the 2009 realignment, the team had been in the Skyline Division of the Northern Hills Conference.[10][11]

The football team won the 2007 North II Group III state sectional championship with a 20-0 win against South Plainfield High School in a game played at Giants Stadium, earning the team its first ever sectional title.[12][13] Since 2009, the football team plays their home games at Untermann Field, which is shared with every other public school in Newark, following the closure and demolition of Newark Schools Stadium.

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 School Data for West Side High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 30, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 West Side High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed June 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 24, 2012.
  5. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed March 30, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  7. ↑ History of West Side, West Side High School. Accessed June 11, 2012.
  8. ↑ League Memberships – 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed June 5, 2016.
  9. ↑ 2014-2015 Public Schools Group Classification: ShopRite Cup–Basketball–Baseball–Softball for North II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of July 8, 2014. Accessed November 25, 2014.
  10. ↑ Falzarano, Brian. "Schools Compete in Super Essex Conference; University, West Side High schools enjoying move to competitive, re-aligned conference", NewarkPatch, May 18, 2011. Accessed June 11, 2012. "Previously, West Side played in the Northern Hills Conference — Skyline Division, which featured lengthy road trips to Passaic County Tech (Wayne), Passaic Valley (Little Falls), Wayne Valley, West Milford that often took an hour-plus between distance and traffic."
  11. ↑ Home Page, Northern Hills Conference, backed up by the Internet Archive as of January 28, 2011. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  12. ↑ Kinney, Mike. "Newark West Side rolls to first title, 20-0", The Star-Ledger, December 3, 2007. Accessed December 3, 2007. "That's how on-top-of-the-world West Side was feeling after its 20-0 victory over South Plainfield for the NJSIAA/Gatorade North Jersey, Section 2, Group 3 championship yesterday in snowfall at Giants Stadium. It was the first championship for West Side (10-2), which became only the third Newark school to claim a crown but second in as many years."
  13. ↑ 2007 Football - North II, Group III, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 3, 2007.
  14. ↑ Alma Shealey Adams, Civil Rights Greensboro. Accessed January 26, 2013. "Alma Adams was born in High Point, NC, in 1947, but her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, while she was an infant. They left Maryland for Newark, New Jersey, where Adams, an African American, attended predominantly white West Side High School."
  15. ↑ The North Carolina Manual 2009-2010, p. 365. North Carolina Secretary of State, 2009, Raleigh, North Carolina. Accessed January 26, 2013. "Alma S. Adams; Democrat, Guilford County... Educational Background: West Side High School, Newark, N.J., 1964"
  16. ↑ Booker, Cory. United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good, p. 33. Random House Publishing Group, 2016. ISBN 9781101965160. "The other person I met was a man named Ray Chambers. Ray was born in Newark in 1942 and later graduated from Newark's West Side High School."
  17. ↑ via Associated Press. "Virginia Squires Sign Aulcie Perry", The Gettysburg Times, August 21, 1974. Accessed June 11, 2012. "Perry, 24, played high school basketball at Newark, N.J., West Side High, then at Belknap College in Center Harbor, N.H."
  18. ↑ Staff. "Rod Steiger", The Daily Telegraph, July 10, 2002. Accessed February 29, 2016. "He started acting while still at Newark's West Side High School but quit at 16, enlisting in the US Navy by lying about his age."
  19. ↑ Stanmyre, Matthew. "NFL Draft 2012: Detroit Lions select Newark native Tahir Whitehead in fifth round", The Star-Ledger, April 28, 2012. Accessed June 11, 2012. "They informed Whitehead, a 2008 graduate of Newark's West Side High School, they had selected him with their fifth-round pick — the 138th overall — of the 2012 NFL draft."
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