Bergenfield High School

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Bergenfield High School
School type	Public
Principal	Mr. Hank Sinatra
Faculty	110
Students	1,204
Colors Mascot	Red, White, Black Bears
Location	80 South Prospect Avenue Bergenfield, NJ 07621
Information	201-385-8600
Website	http://www.bergenfield.org/schools/bhs

Bergenfield High School is a four-year, comprehensive public high school serving students from Bergenfield, in Bergen County, New Jersey. A suburb of New York City, Bergenfield has a population of 28,000 people, mostly consisting of people in professional, business, and technical fields. As part of the Bergenfield Public Schools, Bergenfield High School serves 1,204 students and the district had a Total Comparative Cost per pupil in 2004-05 of around $10,185 (vs. an average of $11,172 in similar districts statewide).^[1] Approximately 91% of Bergenfield High School students go on to two-year or four-year colleges or technical/business schools. The school's CEEB code is 310090.

Bergenfield High School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the New Jersey Department of Education.

1 Administration
2 Athletics
3 Curriculum
4 Notable alumni
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Administration

Principal - Mr. Hank Sinatra
Assistant Principals - Mr. Fasano & Mr. Reagan
Director of Guidance - Mr. Pete Altamura
Superintendent of Schools - Dr. Michael Kuchar

Bergenfield High School has 110 faculty members including those listed above, four guidance counselors, two nurses, and two library/media center faculty.

[edit] Athletics

Bergenfield High School is one of the twelve schools participating in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League (NBIL/NBIAL). It plays under the team name of the Bergenfield Bears. Alex Turnamian is Bergenfield's Athletic Director.

Most sports have Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman teams, but some only have the top one or two tiers.

Note: Sports marked with an asterisk (*) usually practice and compete with each other, but they are two separate teams and officially compete and are scored separately.

[edit] Fall sports teams

Cross Country (Boys)*
Cross Country (Girls)*
Football
Soccer (Boys)
Soccer (Girls)
Tennis (Girls)
Volleyball

[edit] Winter sports teams

Basketball (Boys)
Basketball (Girls)
Bowling (Boys)*
Bowling (Girls)*
Track (Boys)*
Track (Girls)*
Wrestling

[edit] Spring sports teams

Baseball
Softball
Golf (Boys)*
Golf (Girls)*
Tennis (Boys)
Track (Boys)*
Track (Girls)*

[edit] Curriculum

Bergenfield High School offers a wide range of courses in the areas of art, business and marketing, English, health and physical education, industrial and technological education, mathematics, music, science, social studies, and world language. Class levels range from modified to Advanced Placement. Full- and half-year electives are also offered, and health classes are offered as a quarter-year elective within all gym classes.

Advanced Placement Program (AP) Courses include AP Studio Art, AP Art History, AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Calculus, AP Computer Science, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP United States History, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Music Theory, and AP Spanish Language.

Also includes medical field based classes where the students have an opportunity to receive college credits from the University of Medical and Denistry of New Jersey(UMDNJ). Classes include Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology, Dynamics of Healthcare, Emergency and Clinical Care

[edit] Notable alumni

Harry Basil, stand-up comic, actor in Peggy Sue Got Married and director
Thom Fitzgerald, filmmaker The Hanging Garden, The Event, 3 Needles
Bob Gaudio of the group The Four Seasons
Bernard Goldberg, the television news reporter and author of Bias, a New York Times number one bestseller about how the media distort the news.
Bob Guccione, Publisher of Penthouse magazine
Ron Villone, pitcher for the New York Yankees^[2]
Jacklyn Zeman actress who has played Barbara "Bobbie" Spencer on General Hospital since 1977
Stratos Mandalakis, Famous for pleasuring himself with other males in highway rest rooms.