Harrison High School (New Jersey)

Harrison High School
Address
Map
800 Hamilton Street

, ,
07029

United States
Coordinates40°44′57″N 74°08′54″W / 40.74913°N 74.148349°W / 40.74913; -74.148349
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtHarrison Public Schools
NCES School ID340687002738[1]
PrincipalMatthew D. Weber
Faculty51.0 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment716 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Student to teacher ratio14.0:1[1]
Color(s)  Columbia Blue
  Navy Blue and
  white[2]
Athletics conferenceNorth Jersey Interscholastic Conference
Team nameBlue Tide[2]
YearbookHarrisonian
WebsiteOfficial website

Harrison High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Harrison, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Harrison Public Schools. Students from East Newark attend Harrison High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the East Newark School District,[3] though the East Newark district has sought to switch to sending students to Kearny High School, citing potential cost savings.[4]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 716 students and 51.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.0:1. There were 445 students (62.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 140 (19.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e School data for Harrison High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NJSIAAprofile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Duger, Rose. "East Newark Harrison merging dispatch service" Archived October 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, The Jersey Journal, December 30, 2010. Accessed March 25, 2011. "Kearny handles all health-related functions through its Board of Health, while East Newark high school children attend Harrison High School and the borough contracts with Harrison to provide street cleaning, snow removal, ambulance and library services."
  4. ^ Leir, Ron. "Getting serious about separating", The Observer Online, December 18, 2013. Accessed September 8, 2014. "East Newark school officials, who've been doing a lot of talking about a permanent 'recess' for borough students who attend Harrison High, have taken a big step to try to make that happen.... That action could mean that after completing eighth grade at East Newark Public School, borough kids would go to Kearny High School, instead of Harrison High, where they've gone, essentially, since the neighboring communities have existed."