Irvington High School (New Jersey)

For other schools with the same name, see Irvington High School (disambiguation).
Irvington High School
Location
1253 Clinton Avenue
Irvington, NJ 07111
Information
Type Public high school
Established 1875
School district Irvington Public Schools
Principal Burnett Davis III
Asst. Principal Alice Richards (9th)
Joseph Isaacson (10th)
Latee Moya-McCleod (11th)
Oge Denis(12th)
Faculty 121.8 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 9 - 12
Enrollment 1,546 (as of 2008-09)[1]
Student to teacher ratio 12.7[1]
Color(s) Blue and White
Athletics conference Super Essex Conference
Nickname Knights
Website School website

Irvington High School: Frank H. Morrell Campus is a four-year public high school in Irvington, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, that serves students in grades 9 to 12, as part of the Irvington Public Schools. Irvington High School is the only high school in Irvington. The IHS interior has three main floors and a basement. Each floor aligns up to 23 classrooms each. A west wing of the building was erected in the 1980s, providing an extra ground of education for the growing crowd of over 2,000 enrolled students and faculty in hallway traffic.

As of the 2008-09 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,546 students and 121.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7.[1]

The school was the 287th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 307th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[2] The school was bottom-ranked, 316th, in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[3]

Contents

Administration

Irvington High School's administrative staff consists of:[4]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ a b c d Irvington High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 2, 2011.
  2. ^ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 2, 2011.
  3. ^ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  4. ^ Home page, Irvington High School. Accessed August 26, 2008.
  5. ^ Staff. Queen Latifah, Gale (publisher). Accessed February 2, 2011. "She added popular music, especially rap, to her repertoire around the time she entered Irvington High School, where she also played power forward on her school's championship basketball team."
  6. ^ Staff. "Jerry Lewis' Olt-Time 'Thing' Now Setting Pace In Movies", The Calgary Herald, June 26, 1970. Accessed February 2, 2011. "In today's vernacular, he has been 'letting it all hang out' ever since he was a cheerleader at Irvington (New Jersey) High School."

External links

American Division
National Division