Community High School, located in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States, is a private high school designed for children aged 14–18. The school has been accredited by the
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
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Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 2006.
As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 184 students and 42.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a
student–teacher ratio
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of 4.3:1. The school's student body was 56.0% (103) White, 20.7% (38) Hispanic, 16.8% (31) Black, 5.4% (10) Asian and 1.1% (2) two or more races.School data for Community High School
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Demarest, New Jersey
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parochial school
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building that was affiliated with St. Andrew's Roman Catholic church that sat next door. Most students attended on tuition paid by the state, and the school bused in students from Northern New Jersey and New York City.
Shortly before 8:30 AM on March 13, 1998, a 17-year-old student from Manhattan set a fire in a second floor bathroom, which quickly spread through the building's open attic of the building, fanned by strong winds that day. The school was not required by law to have a sprinkler system as it was less than 70 feet. All students, teachers and administrators were safely evacuated and no one was harmed, but the school's 67-year-old main building burnt to the ground and supplies and equipment inside were destroyed, though books and materials in an adjoining wing that had been added on to the original structure survived the fire. The school moved to its current location in Teaneck following the fire.
Athletics
As of the 2007 school year the coach of Community High School's boys' basketball team, had worked to build a cohesive team from a group of teens who struggle with attention deficit disorder, dyslexia and social delays. On the right track ''
The Record
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* ''The Record'' (album), a 1982 studio album by the hardcore-punk band Fear
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National Center for Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance ...