Roselle Park High School

Roselle Park High School is a four-year public high school located in Roselle Park, in Union County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Roselle Park School District. Since 2007, Roselle Park High School serves students in ninth through twelfth grades. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.[4]

Roselle Park High School
Location
Roselle Park High School
Roselle Park High School
Roselle Park High School
185 West Webster Avenue
Roselle Park, NJ 07204

United States
Coordinates40.665752°N 74.271808°W / 40.665752; -74.271808
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtRoselle Park School District
PrincipalSarah Costa[1]
Faculty55.0 FTEs[2]
Grades9-12
Enrollment618 (as of 2015-16)[2]
Student to teacher ratio11.2:1[2]
Color(s)     Cardinal and
     white[3]
Athletics conferenceUnion County Interscholastic Athletic Conference
Team namePanthers[3]
WebsiteSchool website

As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 618 students and 55.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.2:1. There were 184 students (29.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 89 (14.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 191st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.[5] The school had been ranked 122nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 190th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[6] The magazine ranked the school 2008 out of 316 schools.[7] The school was ranked 156th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[8]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 104th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 92 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (88.3%) and language arts literacy (94.5%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[9]

History

The current location is the fourth home for the high school. On April 30, 1931, the cornerstone was laid for a new building for the high school that was to be constructed at a cost of $350,000.[10] In January 1961, Roselle Park voters rejected a proposal for the construction of a new high school that would have cost $2.5 million to build.[11]

The high school was originally located at the site of today's Robert Gordon Elementary School. The school moved to a second building, now demolished, on Locust Street. The third incarnation of the high school was located in what is now the current Roselle Park Middle School. In 1993, a new wing was constructed, adding three additional classrooms.[12]

Athletics

The Roselle Park High School Panthers[3] compete in the Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which includes public and private high schools in Union County and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[13] Prior to the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in the Mountain Valley Conference, which included public and private high schools in Essex County, Somerset County and Union County.[14] With 441 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North II, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 73 to 487 students in that grade range.[15]

  • Athletic Director: James Foy
  • Athletic Director Assistant: Geraldine Gurra

There are a variety of different sports at Roselle Park High School which include fall, winter, and spring seasons:[3]

Fall sports: Football coached by Terry Hanratty, Boys' Soccer coached by Patrick Pietro, Girls' Soccer coached by Anthony Trezza, and Volleyball coached by Dennis Dagounis.

Winter sports: Boys' Basketball coached by Jon Bergbauer, Girls' Basketball coached by Richard Suchanski, Bowling coached by Vicent Fucci, and Wrestling Coached by Ryan Rooney.

Wrestling Team Historic 1,000 wins: On January 19, 2018, Roselle Park High School became just the fourth high school in history to accumulate 1,000 wins joining Granite City, Illinois, Vacaville, California and Paulsboro, New Jersey in the elite 1,000-win club.

Spring sports: Baseball coached by Nick Agoglia, Softball coached by Fran Maggio, Golf coached by Bruce Coultas, and Track and Field coached by Glenn Grieco and Shannon Smith.

The boys' basketball team won the Group III state championship in 1928 (defeating Garfield High School in the final round of the tournament), won the Group II state championship in 1945 (vs. Carteret High School) and 1952 (vs. Burlington City High School), and won the Group I title in 1950 (vs. North Arlington High School).[16]

The baseball team won the Group I state championship in 1972 and 1987, defeating Kingsway Regional High School both years in the tournament final.[17]

The football team won the North II Group I state sectional championship in 1979, 1992 and 1993, and won the North II Group II title in 1989.[18]

The wrestling team won the North II Group I state sectional title in 1980-1991, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2010 and 2014, and won the Central Jersey Group I title in 2004-2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011. The team won the Group I state championship in 1982 and 1997 (as co-champion with Paulsboro High School). The program's 22 sectional titles are tied for fourth most among schools in New Jersey.[19]

The boys' track team won the Group I indoor relay state championship in 1982.[20]

Clubs and organizations

There are many clubs and organizations at RPHS some of these include: Crisis Center, Dads Club, Ecology Club, ESL Club, National Honors Society and Peer Leadership.[1]

Notable alumni

References
  1. Student Handbook 2015-2016, Roselle Park High School. Accessed May 2, 2016.
  2. School data for Roselle Park High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 12, 2018.
  3. Roselle Park High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 2, 2016.
  4. Roselle Park High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 14, 2012. Accessed March 29, 2015.
  5. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  6. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 12, 2012.
  7. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed September 6, 2011.
  8. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  9. School Overview; Click on "Rankings" for 2003-11 HSPA results, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 11, 2012.
  10. Staff. "Lays Stone for Roselle Park School.", The New York Times, May 1, 1931. Accessed September 6, 2011.
  11. Staff. "Jersey School Voted Down", The New York Times, January 18, 1961. Accessed September 6, 2011.
  12. About The School, Roselle Park High School. Accessed September 6, 2011.
  13. League & Conference Affiliations 2016-2017, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 10, 2017.
  14. Home Page, Mountain Valley Conference, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 2, 2011. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  15. General Public School Classifications 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of December 15, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  16. Public Past State Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 23, 2017.
  17. History of the NJSIAA Baseball Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 23, 2017.
  18. Goldberg, Jeff. NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 19, 2015.
  19. History of the NJSIAA Team Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 23, 2017.
  20. History of the NJSIAA Indoor Relay Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 23, 2017.
  21. "Best in the West", Time (magazine), January 13, 1975. Accessed May 19, 2007. "Barry has worked for a long time to become the game's premier forward. He took to the basketball court at age five to play against his older brother Dennis when the Barrys lived in Roselle Park, N.J."
  22. Amdur, Neil. "Sports; Frank Burns: Man in Motion", The New York Times, April 2, 1978. Accessed August 12, 2019. "Like most aggressive, hard‐working individualists, Frank Burns, a former all‐stater at Roselle Park High School and a star quarterback when he played for Rutgers, never considered himself a likely candidate for a heart attack."
  23. "Frank Burns - A Singular Career", p. 3, in Rutgers Football 1980 Media Guide, Rutgers Scarlet Knights football. Accessed August 12, 2019. "The young QB brought in some weighty credentials from Roselle Park, where he was a three-sport standout for four years. He had captained his football and basketball squad, had earned All-State honors in football and baseball for two seasons and in basketball once. His grid team had taken the Group II state title in 1943 and 1944 and the court squad was the state champ in 1945."
  24. Keith Loneker Archived 2007-08-28 at the Wayback Machine, database Football. Accessed August 18, 2007.
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