Wayne Hills High School

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Wayne Hills High School

Contact Information	Phone: 973-633-3090 Fax: 973-633-2589
Established	1967
Type	High School
Principal	Frank Markowick
Location	272 Berdan Avenue Wayne, New Jersey USA
District	Wayne Public Schools
Enrollment	1,390 students
Grades	9th to 12th
Publication	The Patriot Press
Mascot	Patriot
Website	http://www.wayneschools.com/whills

Wayne Hills High School is a comprehensive community public high school, one of the two high schools in Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Wayne Public Schools. The mascot is a Patriot.

1 Demographics
2 Awards and recognition
3 Sports
4 Notable alumni
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Demographics

As of the 2004-05 school year, there was a student population of 1,353 students with 96.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis). This equates to a 14.0:1 student-teacher ratio. There were 148 Asian, 14 Black, 68 Hispanic, and 1,123 White students.^[1]

[edit] Awards and recognition

Wayne Hills High School was the 70th-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.^[2]

[edit] Sports

The Wayne Hills Patriots are one of twelve teams participating in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League (NBIAL), and is the only team outside Bergen County participating in the league. The football team has won 4 state championships in the past five years through 2006, running as the three time defending champs of North 1 Group 3. The team has accumulated a 41-6 record during the four seasons through 2006, including two recent undefeated seasons with the team going 12-0.

The football team was in the 2005 playoffs as the top seed in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating #8-seed Teaneck High School 40-6 and number-four Ramapo High School 41-13, and then crushing third-seeded Parsippany Hills High School 46-0 in the sectional finals.^[3]

In 2006, the team came in seeded second in the North I, Group III bracket, and won the first two rounds, beating 7th-seed Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan 37-7 and 6th-seed Passaic Valley Regional High School 33-0. In the state finals, played at Rutgers University on December 2, 2006, Wayne Hills defeated fourth-seeded Parsippany Hills High School 23-12, the second consecutive year the two faced each other in the finals.^[4]

The Wayne Hills Patriots football team is ranked 2nd behind Don Bosco Prep in New Jersey. The Patriots are the three-time defending state champions of North 1 Group 3. The team was ranked 7th in the East region by USA Today in their final 2006 Super 25 prep football regional rankings.^[5]

[edit] Notable alumni

The following attended Wayne Hills High School:

Chris Carter and fellow founding members of Dramarama
Stacey Mitnick, a pornographic movie actress who used the stage name Barbara Dare.^[6]
Ryan Neill, Defensive End for the Buffalo Bills. Ryan previously played football for Rutgers University and was All-Big East and an SI.com All-American.^[7]
John McNerney, A local celebrity in both Wayne, NJ and York, PA. John played 1st base for the 2000 County Champion Wayne Hills Baseball team. John graduated in a modest 4 1/2 years from York College (PA) York College where he starred as a hooker on the Rugby Club, which he at one point Captained. John can be contacted through his myspace account or through the Harrisburg CBS/CW television affiliates where he currently sells advertising space and starts at Hooker for the Lancaster/York Roses Rugby Club.
Ryan Ward, a child actor who stared in the 2002 film Far From Heaven.