The Hudson School
The Hudson School is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational day school located in Hoboken, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in fifth through twelfth grades. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1991.[4] The Hudson School is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.[5]
The Hudson School | |
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Location | |
601 Park Avenue , 07030 United States | |
Coordinates | 40.7441°N 74.0315°W |
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Type | Private school |
Motto | Courage, Compassion, Commitment |
Established | 1978 |
Founder | Suellen Newman |
NCES School ID | 02043847[1] |
Head of school | Paul Perkinson[2] |
Faculty | 30.9 FTEs[1] |
Grades | 5 – 12 |
Enrollment | 178 (as of 2017–18)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 5.8:1[1] |
Color(s) | Black & Gold |
Team name | Hudson Hornets |
Tuition | $23,880 (2020–21)[3] |
Website | thehudsonschool |
As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 178 students and 30.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 5.8:1. The school's student body was 47.2% (84) White, 16.9% (30) two or more races, 13.5% (24) Asian, 11.8% (21) Black and 10.7% (19) Hispanic.[1]
History
The Hudson School was founded in the fall of 1978 by Suellen Newman, with the financial assistance of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, as an alternative to the available educational institutions in the local area. The school seeks to foster the Three C's ("courage, compassion and commitment") in its students,[6] who are admitted because "they demonstrate a love of learning and don't mind a bit of hard work." In 1992, a high school was opened, since there were few high schools in the area with strong humanities and arts programs that admitted girls.[7] The school moved to its current location in 2002.
Rankings
The Hudson School was ranked 26th on the list of the best private high schools in New Jersey by Niche, with an academic score of A+.[8]
Academics
Some of the courses offered include pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, precalculus, environmental science, chemistry, physics, English, physical education, American history, geography, art, renaissance history, ethics and aesthetics. Languages offered are Spanish, French, Japanese, Mandarin, German, Russian, American Sign Language, Latin, and Greek.
Notable alumni
- Valentin Chmerkovskiy (born 1986), dancer.[9]
- Ezra Miller (born 1992), actor, dropped out at age 16.[10]
References
- School data for The Hudson School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 1, 2020.
- Head's Welcome, The Hudson School. Accessed September 17, 2019.
- Admissions, The Hudson School. Accessed April 22, 2020.
- Hudson School (The), Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed September 5, 2020.
- List of Member Schools, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. Accessed August 13, 2017.
- About Hudson, The Hudson School. Accessed August 28, 2008.
- "About The Hudson School". www.thehudsonschool.org. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- The Hudson School, Niche (company). Accessed November 8, 2017. "#2#26 in Best Private High Schools in New Jersey"
- Samuels, Shayna. "DANCE; And One And Two, And the Dancers Are Off!", The New York Times, April 21, 2002. Accessed July 23, 2012. "In October, Max Chmerkovskiy's star pupils – his brother, Valentin, 16, and Diana Olonetskaia, 15 – became the first Americans to win a world junior championship. They won the competition, held in Turin, Italy, in the Latin category.... Val, as he is known, added, You can dance your feelings'.... Val, for example, a 10th grader at the Hudson School, a private school in Hoboken, is used to being teased. 'My friends are all, like, macho,' he said. 'But the joke is really on them. As you get older, the girls like it.'"
- Passafuime, Rocco. "Ezra Miller" Archived September 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, TheCinemaSource.com, September 8, 2011. Accessed November 6, 2011. "'The year, I left high school my insane British friend Quentin, he is both insane and British and he's been working in a union organization and very real radical causes from a very young age,' he remembers, 'The year I left he started a true reporting paper within my high school, the Hudson School, and it did actually go up against the blonde leader of the more popular school paper.'"