Elmwood Park Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive

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that serves students in

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through

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from Elmwood Park, in

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, operating as the lone secondary school of the Elmwood Park Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the

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Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1963.Elmwood Park Memorial High School

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of 16.6:1. There were 248 students (30.2% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 67 (8.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Memorial Senior High School

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. Accessed December 15, 2024.

History

Before the district opened its own high school, students from East Paterson had been sent to attend Lodi High School until 1953 and then were shifted to

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starting in 1954 due to lack of capacity at the Lodi school. East Paterson Memorial High School opened in September 1957 with 1,075 students in grades 7-10 attending split sessions, to allow for the construction of unfinished portions of the complex.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 214th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in ''

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'' magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 248th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 210th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 201st in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 237th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Athletics

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. participate in the

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(NJIC), which is comprised of small-enrollment schools in Bergen,

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(NJSIAA). Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Elmwood Park was a member of the smaller

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(BPSL). With 536 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 484 to 683 students. The wrestling team won the North I Group II state championship in 1982 and 1986 In 2006, the Elmwood Park High School wrestling team won the BPSL Championship, had a record of 22–2 for the season, were semifinalists in the state sectionals, and ranked top ten in Bergen County. The high school's football team had a 41-game losing streak that lasted from 2002 until September 30, 2006, when they defeated the

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Falcons, 33–14, snapping the four-year-long losing streak that was North Jersey's longest for a football team. After going 20 years without a winning record, the Elmwood Park High School baseball team went 19–6 in 2006, winning the league championship and doubling their wins every year for three seasons. They were semifinalist in the state tournament and county qualifiers. The 2003 boys' basketball team won the North I, Group I state sectional title, their first championship since 1984, with a 70–56 win against

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in the tournament final. The boys' basketball team won the North I, Group I state championship in 2007, defeating

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78–70 in a game played at

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Administration

The school's principal is David Warner. Core members of the school's administration include the two assistant principals.

Notable alumni

* Vinny Ciurciu (born 1980), former linebacker who played in the NFL for the

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* Cora-Ann Mihalik (born ; class of 1972), former television news anchor and reporter who was best known for her role as co-anchor and news reporter for Fox

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. "WNYW/5 anchor Cora Ann Mihalik, class of '72, Elmwood Park (NJ) High School, returns to offer pointers to tonight's graduates."

References

External links

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School Data for the Elmwood Park Public Schools

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