Dwight Morrow High School is a four-year comprehensive

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located in Englewood, in

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, United States, operating as part of the

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. The school also serves students from Englewood Cliffs, who attend as part of a

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.Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood 2015 Report Card Narrative

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. Accessed June 6, 2016. "Dwight Morrow High School is a community of learners and teachers consisting of approximately 1055 students and 125 faculty members. Our school serves Englewood and Englewood Cliffs, and our campus is the home of the largest Interdistrict Public School Choice program in New Jersey, the Academies@Englewood." Dwight Morrow high school shares its campus with the Academies at Englewood. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,003 students and 77.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 13.0:1. There were 423 students (42.2% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 94 (9.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood

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. Accessed December 1, 2022. The Academies at Englewood is a four-year

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high school sharing the campus that serves students in the ninth through twelfth grades from across Bergen County. The program was started by Dr. John Grieco (founder of the

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) serving students in the ninth to twelfth grades in Bergen County. The school was initially created in an effort to diversify the Dwight Morrow High School campus by attracting elite students outside the Englewood community to an academically-challenging, high-performing school, and the program was modeled after his Bergen County Academies. The school was additionally created to raise the standard of public education in Bergen County, and is now part of the Englewood Public Schools District (formerly part of the Bergen County Technical Schools District). Dr. John Grieco also served as the district superintendent during the school's inaugural years. Established in 2002, the Academies at Englewood include five professional and academic divisions.

History

Located on a park-like campus and constructed at a cost of $750,000 from a design by architect Lawrence C. Licht, the school was opened to students in January 1933 with a capacity of 1,200 students, helping to ease overcrowding at the existing high school and junior high facilities. The school is named after Dwight Morrow, a businessman, politician, and diplomat who lived in the city; Morrow was also the father-in-law of aviator

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. The school shares its campus with the Academies@Englewood and Janis E. Dismus Middle School. Dwight Morrow and the Academies at Englewood are located east of Miller's Pond and share the same administration. Janis E. Dismus Middle School, formerly Englewood Middle School, is located south of Miller's Pond and operates independently. The school had been accredited by the

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from 1928 until 2012, when the school's accreditation status was removed.

Demographic issues

During the 1980s, changes in local demographics drastically altered the school's ethnic body resulting in an

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majority. The nearby district of Englewood Cliffs attempted to end its sending receiving relationship with Englewood due to the poor performance of the school. This led to a bitter court battle between Englewood and Englewood Cliffs beginning in 1985, a move characterized by Englewood as racist. By 1992, the school was 97% African American and

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. "There were more violent incidents reported at DMHS (Dwight Morrow High School) than any other school in

Bergen County Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.John E. Rooney, "white students from Englewood Cliffs, the district trying to end its obligation to send its students to Dwight Morrow, feared for their safety at the heavily minority institution." Most Englewood Cliffs parents have chosen private school over Dwight Morrow High School. In Fall 2002, a new magnet program was opened up in an attempt to attract non- African American students back to the school. The opening of the new academy led to more discrimination from the viewpoint of Englewood's African American community. The academy was given a portion of the campus to operate on, and the regular high school, Dwight Morrow, continued to operate on the remainder of the campus. The academy has a diverse population and is kept separate from Dwight Morrow while occupying the same campus. This has created two distinct schools on one campus. Dwight Morrow has recently had protests, overcrowded classrooms and an inferior education. :''"The books are old and the classes are overcrowded,' said..., a junior. "In my history class at least five students have to stand up each day."''. The academy has highly qualified teachers as well as better resources. :''"Academies@Englewood; longer school day, rigorous and engaging core academic curriculum, technology, upgraded classroom materials and equipment not available to Dwight Morrow students, climate reflecting high expectations, inviting classrooms. Students are spirited and proud of their school and opportunities."'' Many residents of Englewood feel that the City of Englewood has worked against the progress of the high school by opening up the Academies. About 50% of the students are from Englewood. Englewood's African American community feels the city and the

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has put its minority residents second with this move. :''"For the past three years they've been feeling like second-class citizens in their own town, sharing a campus with another high school touted as academically superior, and getting no respect...The message to kids and parents at that 97 percent African-American and Hispanic high school is that for so-called integration to happen on the campus, you must swallow the bitter pill that tastes like apartheid."''

Architecture

Dwight Morrow High School has two buildings. One building is called the North building and was the original structure of the school. In the 1960s the South building was added. The South building eventually was designated for the Academies at Englewood. The High School's North building was built using

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. The North building features a tower. Currently, the campus shares two buildings: the south building and the north building. The campus also shares the office of the board of education and the superintendent. Millers Pond on the campus coupled with the Janis E. Dismus Middle School on the grounds lends a collegiate atmosphere to the school.

Athletics

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in the

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, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Bergen and

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counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the

(NJSIAA). The school had previously participated in the BCSL American athletic conference of the

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. With 816 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Ivy White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league. The football team is one of the 12 programs assigned to the two Ivy divisions starting in 2020, which are intended to allow weaker programs ineligible for playoff participation to compete primarily against each other. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III North for football for 2018–2020. The boys basketball team won the Group III state championship in 1947 (against Springfield Regional—since renamed as Jonathan Dayton High School —in the finals), 1951 (vs. Woodrow Wilson High School), 1960 (vs.

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) and 1961 (vs.

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), and won the Group II title in 1975 (vs. Pleasantville High School). Led by 24 points from Sherman White, the 1947 team pulled away to defeat Springfield Regional by a score of 49–22 in the championship game at the Elizabeth Armory to win the Group III state title and run their record for the season to 25–0. The 1951 team finished the season with a record of 23-1 after winning the Group III title with a 59–34 win against Woodrow Wilson in the championship game. The 1975 team, led by future NBA player

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who was named to the all-tournament team, defeated defending champion Pleasantville by a score of 70–66 in the championship game to win the Group II title and finish the season with a mark of 27–2. The team won the 2008 North I, Group II state sectional title, defeating

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72–65 in the tournament final. The win marked the team's first sectional title since 2005, ending a two-year run by Pascack Hills. The boys track team won the spring track state championship in Group III in 1965 (as co-champion) and in Group II in 1992. The boys track team won the Group III indoor relay championships in 1970 and 1971.

Administration

Joseph Armental is the school's principal.

Notable alumni

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'', August 16, 2007. Accessed August 27, 2018. "But starting this fall, freshmen at Dwight Morrow High School here in Bergen County must declare a major that will determine what electives they take for four years and be noted on their diplomas.... The comedians David Feldman and Rick Overton, alumni of the high school, are scheduled to conduct a comedy writing workshop in October." *

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(born 1957, class of 1975), former NBA Player who, along with

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, were the first high school players drafted by the NBA. * John Winkin (1919–2014), baseball coach at Dwight Morrow, scout, broadcaster, journalist and collegiate athletics administrator who led the

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Popular culture

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, Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti. *Dwight Morrow was featured in the film '' Gracie''."Outage, not film, stalls school start"
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. "The high school will open Monday instead of today following a three-day power outage. Last Saturday's storm cut power to the Dwight Morrow campus, including the middle school.... The decision had nothing to do with recent filming of a movie on the campus, said district spokesman Mike Polizzi. The producers of ''Gracie'' used generators and finished up Wednesday."

References

External links

Dwight Morrow High School websiteEnglewood Public School DistrictComprehensive social and legal history of Dwight Morrow including litigation with Englewood Cliffs and Tenafly
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