Indian Hills High School (New Jersey)

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Indian Hills High School
Location
97 Yawpo Avenue
Oakland, NJ 07436
Information
School district Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District
Principal Albert A. Evangelista
Enrollment

986 (as of 2005-06)[1]
Faculty 73.7 (on FTE basis)[1]
Student:teacher ratio 13.4[1]
Type Public high school
Grades 9 - 12
Athletics conference North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League
Nickname Braves
Information 201-337-0100
Homepage School website

Indian Hills High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Bergen County, New Jersey. The school is a part of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District, serving students from Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff. The high school is located in Oakland. Ramapo High School is the other high school in the district.

For the 2005-06 school year, Indian Hills High School had an enrollment of 986 students in grades 9-12, and 73.7 faculty members (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.4.[2]

Indian Hills High School was the 35th-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.[3]

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[edit] Athletics

Indian Hills High School participates in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League.

Indian Hills High School has a long-standing rivalry with Ramapo High School, most notably with the school's football, swimming, and fencing teams.[4]

The 2003 Girls Soccer team won the North I Group II tournament, defeating River Dell Regional High School 1-0 in the final.[5]

The Girls Softball team won the 2003 North I, Group II title over Hopatcong High School, winning by a score of 6-1.[6][7]

In 2005, the Girls Tennis team took the North I, Group II championship, beating Tenafly High School 3½-1½.[8]

The baseball team took the North I, Group II state sectional title in 2007 with a 5-0 win over Westwood Regional High School.[9]

The Academic Decathlon team (which receives a varsity letter) won the state championship in 2006 and in 2007. They attended the national USAD competition in San Antonio, TX in 2006, and the national USAD competition in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2007.

[edit] Administration

  • Albert A. Evangelista - Principal
  • Joseph Collins - Assistant Principal
  • Gregg Desiderio - Assistant Principal
  • Robert B. Van Saders - Director of Athletics and Student Activities

[edit] References

  1. ^ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named NCES
  2. ^ Indian Hills High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 29, 2007.
  3. ^ "Top Public High Schools in New Jersey", New Jersey Monthly, September 2006, backed up by Internet Archive as of April 29, 2007. Accessed March 5, 2008.
  4. ^ Cummins, Jeff. "Indian H. stuns Ramapo", The Record (Bergen County), November 29, 2003. "Nathanson kicked a 38-yard field goal in The driving rain with 42 seconds left to give Indian Hills a 16-14 win over arch-rival Ramapo on Friday night."
  5. ^ 2003 Girls Soccer - North I - 2, NJSIAA, accessed April 29, 2007.
  6. ^ "Emerson shuts out Midland Park", The Record (Bergen County), May 30, 2003. Accessed August 1, 2007. "North 1, Group 2: INDIAN HILLS 6, HOPATCONG 1 - Danielle DeCarlo, Ashley Funari, and Erin Kindle each had an RBI as the top-seeded Braves jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning of the sectional final."
  7. ^ 2003 Softball Tournament - North I, Group II, NJSIAA, accessed April 29, 2007.
  8. ^ 2005 Girls Team Tennis - North I, Group II, NJSIAA, accessed April 29, 2007.
  9. ^ 2007 Baseball - North I, Group II, NJSIAA. Accessed July 22, 2007.

[edit] External links

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