| International High School | |
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| Address | |
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200 Grand Street , , 07502 United States | |
| Coordinates | 40°54′34″N 74°10′47″W / 40.9095°N 74.1798°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 2001 |
| School district | Paterson Public Schools |
| NCES School ID | 341269000809[1] |
| Principal | Catherine Forfia-Dion |
| Faculty | 49.0 FTEs[1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 694 (as of 2022–23)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 14.2:1[1] |
| Website | ihs |
International High School is a four-year public high school in Paterson, Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades operating as part of the Paterson Public Schools. The school is intended to create an educational environment that "respects diversity and celebrates the multicultural atmosphere of Paterson". It offers a curriculum of international and global studies that also address government, business, legal, and law enforcement subjects. It stresses key organizational skills, such as oral speaking and presentations, research, and debate. Students are required to work to be conversant in a language other than their native language.[2]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 694 students and 49.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.2:1. There were 400 students (57.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 28 (4.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]
The school district hired a private investigator to look into the reasons behind the significant percentage of students in the district who opted out of mandated PARCC testing in the 2014-15 school year, including 30% at the co-located International High School and Garret Morgan Academy.[3]
- ^ a b c d e School data for International High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
- ^ Mission Statement, International High School. Accessed May 15, 2013.
- ^ Malinconico, Joe. "Paterson district uses private investigator to question school board member about PARCC tests", The Record, June 11, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2015. "In that lawsuit, International Principal Robina Puryear-Castro, Vice Principal Amod Field and Garret Morgan Principal Stanley Sumter say an outside third party investigator conducted one-on-one interrogations of each of them about the PARCC tests. The administrators said the investigator wanted to know why about 30 percent of the students at the two schools, which share a building on Grand Street, opted out of the test."