Parsippany Hills High School

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Parsippany Hills High School

Motto	"Knowledge is Power"
Contact Information	Phone: 973-682-2815 Fax: None
Established	1969
Type	High School
Principal	Dr. Richard Konet
Location	20 Rita Drive Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey USA
District	Parsippany Troy-Hills School District
Enrollment	1,166 students
Grades	9th to 12th
Publication	Runes
Mascot	Viking
Website	http://www.pthsd.k12.nj.us/SCH/PHHS/home.html

Parsippany Hills High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, one of two high schools in the township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, United States The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grade as part of the Parsippany-Troy Hills School District. Built in 1969, the school serves 1,166 students who live in the western half of Parsippany. Its companion school in the District is Parsippany High School.

1 Awards and recognition
2 Academics
3 Arts
4 Athletics
5 Administration
6 Notable graduates
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Awards and recognition

Parsippany Hills High School was the 87th-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.^[1]

[edit] Academics

Parsippany Hills High School offers the basic math, science, English, and history courses, but also has a wide range of elective courses ranging from human development to choir to marketing. Parsippany Hills also offers its students a wide range of Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses.

49.1% of Parsippany Hills teachers hold a master's degree or doctorate in the field that they teach in. Parsippany Hills also has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10.6 students per every faculty member.^[1]

Parsippany Hills students can easily connect to the Internet, with 100% of all school computers having Internet connections.^[1]

[edit] Arts

Parsippany Hills offers a wide range of artistic classes, from drawing to ceramics. Parsippany Hills has a large drama club, known unofficially as the Par Hills Players, which will be performing The Importance of Being Earnest on November 17 and 18, 2006. Past productions have included The Odd Couple: Female Version, West Side Story, Picnic, Zombie Prom, and Bye Bye Birdie.

[edit] Athletics

The Parsippany Hills High School Vikings participate in the twenty-member Iron Hills Conference. Students at Parsippany Hills can play many sports, such as football, soccer, cross country running, field hockey, volleyball, and cheerleading in the fall, swimming, basketball, ice hockey, wrestling, track, and cheerleading in the winter, and baseball, softball, tennis, and golf in the spring.

The football team was in the 2005 playoffs as the third seed in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating #6-seed West Milford High School 13-6 and number-two Wayne Valley High School 27-7, before losing to top-seeded Wayne Hills High School 46-0 in the sectional finals.^[2]

The Vikings were also in the North I Group III playoff finals again in 2006. They came in as 4th seed, and won the first two rounds - beating 5th-seeded Morris Hills High School 28-7 and top seeded and heavy favorite Teaneck 38-20. They played Wayne Hills High School again for the second straight year in a row for state title. They played better than last year, but lost again: 23-12 against the top public in the state.

Parsippany Hills' most dominant and state renowned program is their wrestling team. Parsippany Hills enters the 2006-2007 wrestling season with zero losing seasons dating back to the school's founding in 1969. Recent notable achievements include the 2005/06 District IX championship and the 2003/04 Iron Hills Conference Championship (first since 1989).

Individually, Parsippany Hills recently saw their streak of state place winners stop at school record six straight years and has placed someone in the State's top 8 in nine of the last ten years. Recent State place winners include Evan and Paul Galipeau, John Hesse and Chris Madia.

[edit] Administration

Richard J. Konet, principal,
Norman Francis, Jr., assistant principal and athletic director
Nancy A. Gigante, assistant principal
Edward E. Nathan, assistant principal, who replaced Joseph Moran as an assistant principal. Nathan started his career at Parsippany Hills High School at the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year.