Glen Rock High School

Glen Rock High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Glen Rock, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Glen Rock Public Schools.

Glen Rock High School
Address
400 Hamilton Avenue

Glen Rock
,
Bergen County
,
New Jersey
07452

United States
Coordinates40.955641°N 74.123017°W / 40.955641; -74.123017
Information
TypePublic high school
MottoIn scientia vis ("Power in knowledge")
Established1956
School districtGlen Rock Public Schools
NCES School ID3405970[1]
PrincipalMichael Parent
Faculty77.6 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment731 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio9.4:1[1]
Color(s)  Red
  White and
  Black[2]
Athletics conferenceNorth Jersey Interscholastic Conference
Team namePanthers[2]
NewspaperThe Glen Echo
Websitewww.highschool.glenrocknj.org

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 731 students and 77.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.4:1. There were 6 students (0.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 4 (0.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was one of 18 schools statewide (and three public high schools) honored in 2018 by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program by the United States Department of Education.[3][4]

In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 137th out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 25th among all high schools in New Jersey and 12th among the state's non-magnet schools.[5] In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", The Daily Beast ranked the school 218th in the nation among participating public high schools and 17th overall (tenth of non-magnet schools) in New Jersey.[6] Glen Rock was ranked 30th in New Jersey and 287th nationwide in Newsweek magazine's 2012 issue of "America's Best High Schools."[7] In the 2012 "Ranking America's Best High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 40th in New Jersey and 1,028th nationwide.[8] In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 31st in New Jersey and 1,070th nationwide.[9] Glen Rock was ranked 874th, the 24th-highest in New Jersey, in Newsweek magazine's 2010 rankings of America's Best High Schools.[10] In Newsweek's May 22, 2007, issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Glen Rock High School was listed in 964th place, the 28th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.[11] The school was ranked as number 614 in the April 30, 2006 issue, the 18th highest ranked school in New Jersey.[12]

The school was the 8th-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.[13] The school had been ranked 4th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 28th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[14] The magazine ranked the school 28th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[15] The school was ranked 6th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.[16] Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 31st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 7 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (93.5%) and language arts literacy (98.5%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[17]

Publications

The Glen Echo, the school newspaper, released an online newspaper in 2012. Led by faculty adviser Jason Toncic, this transition was covered extensively by local media sources.[18][19]

Athletics

The Glen Rock High School Panthers[2] participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which is comprised of small-enrollment schools in Bergen, Hudson, Morris and Passaic counties, and was created following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[20][21][22] With 560 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.[23] Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Glen Rock was a member of the smaller Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League (BPSL).[24] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II North for football for 2018–2020.[25]

Glen Rock is one of the smallest high schools in New Jersey to support ice hockey and lacrosse programs.[26][27] Because the NJIC does not offer competition in these sports, Glen Rock is a member of the Big North Conference for hockey and competes in lacrosse-specific leagues for both boys' and girls' lacrosse. The ice hockey team specifically has won four consecutive Big North Silver/Freedom championships (2013–16), making the semi-finals of the Public B state tournament twice (2012, 2015) and making the championship in 2016, before winning their first state title in 2017 with an 8-1 victory over Wall High School.[28][29][30]

The football team won the North I Group I state sectional championship in 1980, 1996, and 1998-2002, and won the North I Group II title in 1988.[31] The five consecutive state championships won from 1998 to 2002 are one short of the state record.[32] The 1988 team finished the season with a 10-1 record after winning the North I Group II title with a 17-10 victory against a Mahwah High School team that was unbeaten going into the championship game.[33] The team won the 2001 North I, Group I state sectional championship with a 22-14 win in double overtime in the tournament final against Cresskill High School.[34][35] The team won its fifth consecutive sectional championship with a 41-0 win against Henry P. Becton Regional High School in 2002.[32][36]

The girls soccer team has won the Group I/II title in 1984 (defeating Delran High School in the tournament final), won the Group I title in 1986 (vs. Bordentown Regional High School), 1987 (vs. Bordentown), 1996 (co-champion with Pingry School), 1999 (vs. Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School), 2002 (co-champion with Pennsville Memorial High School) and 2003 (co-champion with New Providence High School), and won the Group II title in 1989 (as co-champion with Cinnaminson High School), 1995 (as co-champion with Moorestown High School), 1997 (co-champion with Gloucester Catholic High School), 2012; The 11 titles won by the program are the third-most of any public school in the state.[37] The 1999 team finished the season with a 21-1-1 record after defeating Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School by a score of 2-0 to win the Group I state championship.[38] In 2012, the girls soccer team won the North I, Group II state sectional final with a 1-0 win against Ramsey High School.[39] They went on to win the Group II state title with a 4-0 win against Bordentown Regional High School.[40]

The girls spring / outdoor track and field team won the Group II state championship in 1994, and won the Group I title in 1995, 1997 and 2000-2003; The program's seven state titles are tied for fifth-most in New Jersey.[41]

The wrestling won the North I Group I sectional title in 1999 and 2000.[42]

The baseball team won the Group II state title in 1999 vs. Riverside High School.[43]

The boys tennis team won the Group I state title in 2000, defeating Mountain Lakes High School in the finals.[44]

The girls tennis team won the Group I title in 2000 vs. Pitman High School and 2001 vs. Mountain Lakes High School.[45] The girls tennis team took the North I, Group I sectional title in 1999 with a 4-1 win vs. Henry P. Becton Regional High School in the tournament finals.[46][47]

The boys spring / outdoor track and field won the Group I title in 2003 and 2004.[48]

The ice hockey team won the Public B state championship in 2017.[49]

Administration

The principal is Dr. Michael Parent. His administration team includes the assistant principal.[50]

Notable alumni

References
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  18. DeSanta, Richard. "Glen Rock High School students take paper digital", Glen Rock Gazette, November 23, 2012. Accessed September 29, 2013. "Emulating a potential trend in professional publishing, Glen Rock High School's student newspaper is moving to a digital-only format to spur immediacy and spike printing costs.... The Glen Echo's first all-electronic issue hit the website on Tuesday, Nov. 13, about a month after the national news magazine Newsweek announced that its Dec. 31, 2012 edition will be the last one it prints."
  19. McGinley, Devin. "GRHS Student School Paper Goes OnlineIn a sign of the times, the traditional student newspaper makes way for the student news site.", Ridgewood-GlenRockPatch, November 13, 2012. Accessed September 29, 2013.
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  33. Czerwinski, Mark J. "O'Sullivan Stars in Glen Rock Shocker", The Record, December 4, 1988. Accessed December 17, 2020. "Mike O'Sullivan may not be Glen Rock's most talented football player, but he certainly was the most popular following Saturday's Group 2, Section 1 championship game. The senior halfback, who labels himself 'at best, a Division 3 prospect,' scored two touchdowns and starred on defense as the Panthers stunned previously unbeaten Mahwah, 17-10, to win the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association title.... The Panthers (10-1) led 10-0 at the half on O'Sullivan's 8-yard touchdown and David Feuer's 28-yard field goal."
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  52. Rohan, Virginia. "Glen Rock actor stars in MTV's "Skins"", The Record, January 17, 2011, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 5, 2015. Accessed August 30, 2018. "Now a senior at Glen Rock High School — which, during filming, sent his schoolwork to Toronto, where Danny worked with an on-set tutor — he also sings and plays guitar (and is in a band called MF Killer Starfish)."
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  54. Wilson, Dennis. "Petrone battles Bermuda while U.S. ties England", Glen Rock Gazette, June 18, 2010. Accessed July 15, 2014. "What does Glen Rock High School's career men's soccer scoring leader do during the summer recess from college? Sam Petrone, who netted 86 goals for the Panthers, 27 as a senior, is a member of the Premier Development League's New Jersey Rangers."
  55. Aberback, Brian. "Glen Rock's Titus Andronicus to play at soon-to-shut Maxwell's", The Record, July 10, 2013, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 4, 2016. accessed August 30, 2018. "'It's important to support local business,' said Stickles (Glen Rock High School class of 2004)."
  56. Rohan, Virginia. "Glen Rock's Charlie Tahan stars in Fox's Wayward Pines", The Record, June 9, 2015, backed up by the Internet Archive as of October 21, 2016. Accessed August 30, 2018. "'People kind of always assume that if you're a child actor, you don't have friends or anything, but I've never experienced that really,' says Tahan, who is finishing his junior year at Glen Rock High School."
  57. Biography, Jimmy Vivino, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 4, 2007. Accessed October 18, 2017. "By the mid-seventies, The Uncle Floyd Show was very popular, and Floyd Vivino was selling out the Bottom Line in New York City. At this time Jimmy's band provided the music. On sax was Jerry Vivino; on guitar, Jimmy Vivino; on keyboards the fabulous Ed Alstrom; and on drums, Frank Pagano. Interestingly, all of the band were Glen Rock High School graduates, and they all went on to be successful musicians."
  58. Stevens, Amanda. "John Sebastian & GR's Jimmy Vivino Electrify Mexicali Live; Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sebastian and Vivino shared the stage in Teaneck", Ridgewood Patch, December 12, 2011. Accessed October 18, 2017. "John Sebastian and Glen Rock native Jimmy Vivino performed at Mexicali Live in Teaneck Saturday night before a full house. Vivino, a Glen Rock High School graduate, is the band leader of the Basic Cable Band on Conan O'Brien's late night talk show."
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