Union Hill Middle School

Union Hill Middle School
Location
3800 Hudson Avenue
Union City, NJ 07087
Information
Type Public middle school
School district Union City Board of Education
Principal Victoria Dickson
Asst. Principal Timothy Crabbe
Ryan Lous
Faculty 113.9 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 7 - 8
Enrollment 1,505 (as of 2005-06)[1]
Student to teacher ratio 13.2[1]
Color(s) Navy Blue and Silver (Previously Blue and Orange)
Athletics conference Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association
Nickname The Soaring Eagles (Previously the Hillers)
Information 201-348-5936
Website School website

Union Hill Middle School (formerly Union Hill High School) is a public middle school in Union City, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Union City Board of Education, an Abbott District. The school was built in what was formerly Union Hill, New Jersey, which merged with West Hoboken in 1925 to form Union City. The school retained the name Union Hill High School, however, until the school year beginning in September 2008, when it was changed to its current name.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,505 students and 113.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2.[1]

The school was the 233rd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was ranked 268th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[2]

Through the 2007-08 school year, the city was served by two public high schools, Emerson High School and Union Hill High School. In September 2009 Union Hill High School and Emerson High Schools converted into middle schools, and a new school, Union City High School, opened for grades 10 - 12 in new a building on the site of the former Roosevelt Stadium.[3]

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Athletics

Union City High School competes in the Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association (HCIAA), which includes private and parochial high schools in Hudson County. The league operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[4]

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:[5]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ a b c d Emerson High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 12, 2008.
  2. ^ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  3. ^ Hu, Winnie. "After 88 Years of Rivalry, the Last as Us and Them", The New York Times, November 22, 2007. Accessed January 2, 2008. "But today’s so-called Turkey Game signals the end of the tradition. Next fall, the two schools will merge in a new $176 million building.... The new Union City High School will take up four-and-a-half acres in the center of the city, squeezed between row houses and commercial strips. It will have a football field and bleachers built on the roof so that players will no longer have to share the facilities at José Martí Middle School."
  4. ^ Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 15, 2007.
  5. ^ Administration, Union Hill High School. Accessed August 12, 2008.
  6. ^ Melissa Rappaport. "A look inside" The Union City Reporter; October 4, 2009; Pages 1 & 18
  7. ^ Psarakis, Yannis. "Nikos Galis - Europe's Greatest-Ever Scorer", FIBA Europe. Accessed November 24, 2007. "Her horror at seeing her son come home every day with a new facial injury led to Galis taking up basketball and in 1970 began to play at Union Hill High School."
  8. ^ Strunsky, Steve. "IN PERSON; A Former Sports Star Finds Politics A Rougher Field", The New York Times, October 22, 2000. Accessed June 4, 2010.
  9. ^ Diaz, Lana Rose. "Bringing the flavor" The Union City Reporter; May 30, 2010; Pages 1 & 15
  10. ^ Congressional Biography of Robert Menendez, accessed March 8, 2007
  11. ^ Frederick Reines: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 - Autobiography, accessed April 5, 2007. "By this time the family had returned to New Jersey, and I was a student at Union Hill High School."

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