Westwood Regional High School

Westwood Regional Jr./Sr. High School
Address
Westwood Regional Jr./Sr. High School
Westwood Regional Jr./Sr. High School
Westwood Regional Jr./Sr. High School
701 Ridgewood Road
Township of Washington, NJ 07676
United States
Information
Type Public high school
Motto Crescat Scientia (Let knowledge grow from more to more)
Established 1967
School district Westwood Regional School District
Principal Frank Connelly
Asst. principals Shelley LaForgia
Christopher Mello
Faculty 95.1 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 8-12
Enrollment 1,024[1] (as of 2013-14)
Student to teacher ratio 10.8:1[1]
Color(s)      Scarlet
     Black and
     White[2]
Athletics 20 teams
Athletics conference Big North Conference
Team name Cardinals[2]
Newspaper The Cardinal Chronicle
Website School website

Westwood Regional Jr./Sr. High School is a five-year comprehensive regional public high school that serves students in eighth through twelfth grades from Borough of Westwood and the Township of Washington, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Westwood Regional School District.[3][4]

As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,024 students and 95.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. There were 62 students (6.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 17 (1.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards and recognition

The school was the 106th-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 58th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 92nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[6] The magazine ranked the school 56th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[7] The school was ranked 81st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.[8] Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 128th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 9 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.8%) and language arts literacy (95.9%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[9]

Curriculum

Advanced Placement (AP) courses offered include AP Art History, AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Chemistry, AP English Literature and Composition, AP French Language, AP Microeconomics, AP Physics B, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Language, AP Statistics, AP Studio Art, AP United States History, AP United States Government and Politics, AP World History.[10]

Extracurricular activities

There is a wide range of activities and clubs for students to participate in:[11]

Athletics

The Westwood Regional High School Cardinals[2] compete in the Big North Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[12] With 562 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014-15 school year as North I, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 481 to 749 students in that grade range.[13] Before the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had previously participated in the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) American Conference, which was made up of private and public high schools located in Bergen County and Hudson County.[14] Westwood Regional High School athletic teams are called the Cardinals. They wear school colors Scarlet, White, and Black.[2] Since the school's origin, the colors were scarlet and white, with black added as an official school color.

The boys basketball team won the 1951 Group II state championship, defeating Ocean City High School in the tournament final.[15]

The football team won the NJSIAA North I Group II state sectional championship in 2000, 2006, 2013 and 2014, and won the North I Group I title in 2004.[16] The program's most recent title was won on December 2, 2006, when the Westwood Cardinals went to Giants Stadium in East Rutherford where they played the Indians of Pascack Valley High School in the North I Group II finals, beating them 9-8.[17]

The Boys Spring Track team won three consecutive County Championships from 2004-2006. In the Spring of 2005 the team when undefeated in Bergen County, and won the North I, Group II state championship by a record margin.

On March 5, 2007, the boys' basketball team played in the North I, Group II state championship, falling to Pascack Hills High School by 66-65 in overtime, in a game played at River Dell High School.[18][19]

Sports offered by the school include:[2]

Fall sports:

Winter sports:

Spring Sports:

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:[20]

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 School Data for Westwood Junionr/Senior High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed October 31, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Westwood Regional Jr-Sr High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 31, 2015.
  3. ↑ Westwood Regional School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 20, 2016. "The Westwood Regional School District is the only K-12 regional school district in Bergen County, serving approximately 2,750 students from the Borough of Westwood and the Township of Washington."
  4. ↑ Community and District Profiles, Westwood Regional School District, May 28, 2004. Accessed June 20, 2016. "The Westwood Regional School District serves the Borough of Westwood (population 10,400) and the Township of Washington (population 9,800). These two communities are located approximately fifteen miles northwest of midtown Manhattan."
  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 August 27, 2012.
  7. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  9. ↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 4, 2012.
  10. ↑ Westwood Junior / Senior High School 2013-14 School Performance Report, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 1, 2015.
  11. ↑ Activities & Clubs Directory, Westwood Regional Jr. / Sr. High School. Accessed December 1, 2015.
  12. ↑ League Memberships – 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 25, 2014.
  13. ↑ 2014-2015 Public Schools Group Classification: ShopRite Cup–Basketball–Baseball–Softball for North I, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of July 8, 2014. Accessed November 25, 2014.
  14. ↑ New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association League Memberships – 2009-2010, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, backed up by the Internet Archive as of July 24, 2011. Accessed November 25, 2014.
  15. ↑ NJSIAA Group Basketball Past Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 31, 2015.
  16. ↑ Goldberg, Jeff. NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 19, 2015.
  17. ↑ 2006 Football Tournament - North I, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed February 18, 2007.
  18. ↑ Roberts, Jeff. "Pascack Hills leaps for joy -- Denies Raji, Westwood in OT", The Record (Bergen County), March 6, 2007. Accessed December 1, 2015.
  19. ↑ 2007 Boys Basketball - North I, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed March 7, 2007.
  20. ↑ Contact Us, Westwood Regional Jr./Sr. High School. Accessed October 31, 2015.
  21. ↑ Weingrad, Michael. Letters to America: Selected Poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef, p. 4. Syracuse University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780815653257. Accessed June 5, 2016. "Robert grew up in Manhattan, attending P.S. 187 and the High School of Music and Art before the family moved to New Jersey where he excelled as a student-athlete at Westwood High School in Bergen County."
  22. ↑ Fard, Maggie Fazeli. "Washington Township native named newest four-star general", The Record (Bergen County), December 31, 2009. Accessed February 3, 2011. "Johns, Jr., the eldest child of Doris and Raymond Johns, Sr., grew up in Township of Washington with his younger brother, Kevin, and sister, Susan. He attended Westwood High School, where he met his future wife, Diana, and discovered what he wanted to do for the rest of his life."
  23. ↑ Rispoli, Michael. "ACORN sting 'pimp' is N.J. man who attended Rutgers University", The Star-Ledger, September 17, 2009. Accessed March 31, 2015. "The younger O'Keefe, a former Eagle Scout who graduated from Westwood High School, and a friend, 20-year-old Hannah Giles, a journalism student at Florida International University, spent their summer traveling to ACORN offices across the nation."
  24. ↑ DiTrani, Vinny. "DiTrani: Westwood High's B.J. Raji makes a Super play", The Record (Bergen County), January 23, 2011. Accessed February 3, 2011.
  25. ↑ Kevin Sampson player profile, National Football League Players Association. Accessed July 23, 2007. "Hometown: Westwood, NJ... A three-year starter on the offensive line at Westwood High School in Westwood, New Jersey."

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