Eastside High School (or EHS) is a four–year

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located in Paterson section of Passaic County,

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, United States, that serves the eastern section of Paterson. EHS, which serves

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through

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students, operates as part of the

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. The school has been accredited by the

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Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1928. Eastside High School opened on February 1, 1926. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,959 students and 135.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 14.5:1. There were 1,032 students (52.7% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 0 (0.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Eastside High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022. The school mascot—the Ghosts—derives from the location of Eastside's football field, where a nineteenth-century cemetery once stood. A May 1927 article in ''The Paterson Evening News'' refers to the Eastside team as the "Galloping Ghosts".

History

The school building, completed at a cost of $1.5 million (equivalent to $ million in ), was dedicated in formal ceremonies in January 1926. The school opened to students the next month, with students moving over from Central High School (since renamed as John F. Kennedy High School) to the new school facility.

Schools

The Eastside campus hosts three separate academy programs that operate independently but share a facility and athletic programs: *

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**Andre S. McCollum Sr., Principal *

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**Andre S. McCollum Sr., Principal of Instruction **Edgard Nieves, Principal of Operations * School of Information Technology **Andre S. McCollum Sr., Principal of Instruction

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 311th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in ''

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'' magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's ''Top Public High Schools''. The school was ranked 309th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 370th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2009-10 rankings which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the

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(HSPA).

Demographics and achievement

EHS is 55%

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of various Latin American nationalities, 43%

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, 2%

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. 37% of the school speaks Spanish in their homes while another 32% speaks another language other than English. There are also

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students or LEPs who compose 12% of the school. Limited English Proficient students cannot speak, read, or write in English and are placed in "bilingual" classes. 45% of the students participate in the free or reduced price lunch program. The average class size is 39 students, excluding special education. The school's ratio of students to computers is 9 to 1, with the state average being 4 to 1. On the Language Arts section of the

(HSPA), 51% scored proficient and 46% scored partial. On the Math section of the test, 39% scored proficient and 57% scored partial. The average

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score is 736 out of 1600. The

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(AP) participation is 2%. The average attendance rate is 87%. As of the 2004–05 school year, EHS had a suspension rate of 10%. 60% of Eastside High School seniors graduated. 71% of the school graduated via the SRA process and 10% graduated through the LEP SRA process. Roughly 38% of the graduating seniors go on to four-year colleges and another 34% of the graduating seniors go on to two-year college. The faculty gets paid $46,500 a year while the state average is $52,563. The administrators get paid $105,000; the state average is $102,755. Since the school is in a "special needs" or one of the

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s, the district receives almost 85% of its budget from the state.

Athletics

The Eastside High School GhostsEastside High School

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in the Big North Conference, a super conference comprised of public and private high schools in

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and Passaic counties that operates under the supervision of the

(NJSIAA) and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey. For the 2009–10 season, the school competed in the

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, an interim conference established to facilitate the forthcoming realignment. Until the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in Division B of the

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, which included high schools located in Bergen,

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and Passaic counties, and was separated into three divisions based on NJSIAA size classification. With 2,304 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,060 to 5,049 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Liberty Blue division of the

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, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group V North for football for 2022–2024. Eastside plays an annual Thanksgiving Day football game against Kennedy High School. In 2011, Eastside won the 87th annual match-up between the two schools by a score of 17–12 At the 93rd annual game in 2017, Kennedy defeated Eastside by a score of 16–6 to win their fourth game in a row in the annual rivalry.

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listed the rivalry at 21st on its 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football", with Kennedy leading the series by a 43–42–7 margin. The boys' bowling team won the overall state championship in 1960. The Paterson Eastside softball team won the program's first North I Group IV state sectional title in 1981 with a 6-5 win in the championship game against

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. The team won the Group IV semifinal by a score of 2-1 over Roxbury High School before falling to

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by a score of 5-4 in the title game played at

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. The boys track team won the spring track state championship in Group IV in 1987. The girls basketball team won the Group IV state championship in 2004 (defeating runner-up

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) and 2014 (vs. Shawnee High School). The team won the finals of the Group IV tournament in 2004 with a 43–36 win against

. The team won in Group IV in 2014 with a 60–41 win against Shawnee in the playoff finals. The boys basketball team won the Group IV state championship in 2011 (against

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in the tournament final) and in 2015 (vs.

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). The team won the Group IV title in 2011 with a 56-52 win against Rancocas Valley in the championship game and came into the Tournament of Champions as the fourth seed, and failed to hold an 11-point fourth-quarter lead in the quarterfinals before losing to fifth-seeded Newark Central by a score of 73–67 in overtime to finish the season with a record of 21–9.NJSIAA Boys Basketball Tournament of Champions History

. Accessed November 1, 2020. The team won its second Group IV title in 2015 with a 50–34 win against Cherry Hill East in the tournament final and lost as the third seed in the ToC to number-six

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in the quarterfinals 66–56.

In popular culture

Paterson Eastside High is known for its renaissance in the mid-1980s under the leadership of

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as principal. The school was depicted in the 1989 film '' Lean on Me'', starring

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as Clark. Former student, Fetty Wap, filmed the music video for his song "Wake Up" in the school in 2016.

Notable alumni

* Martin G. Barnes (1948–2012, class of 1965), politician who was the city's first African-American mayor. *

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(1919–2010, class of 1935),

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who worked on the

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on techniques to extract

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from uranium ore. *

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(born 1950), former professional

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who played in

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for the

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and

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. * Johnny Briggs (born 1944), major league baseball player with Phillies, Brewers, and Twins. *

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who attended Rosa L. Parks School of Fine and Performing Arts, while competing athletically at Eastside High School in Paterson, where she was an all-state volleyball player and state champion in the 400 meters. *

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(1923–2003), Hall of Fame baseball player who was the first black player in the

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. *

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(1914–2005, class of 1931), artist who was known for his sculpture and his art criticism. *

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(1926–1997, class of 1943), beat poet.Shapiro, Danielle
"Celebrating 80 years of Eastside High"
'' The Record'', December 1, 2006. Accessed October 18, 2021, via

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. "Allen Ginsberg Class of 1943, famous Beat generation poet and the 1974 winner of the National Book Award. Jerry Joseph Zaks Class of 1963, Broadway theater director, who directed more than 30 productions on the Great White Way including, ''The Front Page,'' ''Anything Goes'' and ''Smokey Joe's Cafe.'' Edward L. Cotton Class of 1964, involved in local Paterson politics and a boxing referee who was the arbiter in more than 60 championship and 30 world championship matches including the heavyweight championship bout between Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson in 2002. Marty Barnes Class of 1965, was mayor of Paterson from 1997 to 2002 and subsequently served prison time for corruption in office." *

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(born 1939), film and television director. * Frank X. Graves Jr. (1923–1990), politician who is best known for serving two separate terms as

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(1915-2018, class of 1931), Professor Emeritus of

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at the

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, known for his contributions into

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s. *

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of the

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(1923-2016),

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who specialized in

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, after having competed on Eastside's math team while in high school. *

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(born 1955), former

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. *

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. *

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(born 1969), NFL linebacker who played for the

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and

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.Idec, Keith
"Where are they now? Eastside's Ricardo McDonald"
'' The Record'', March 7, 2011. Accessed May 5, 2012. "While many of them suffer from debilitating physical ailments, financial difficulties and marital problems that often lead to divorce in their post-NFL lives, McDonald is in good physical condition, is a happily married father of four and is part-owner of a thriving truck stop 90 minutes outside of Pittsburgh, where the ex-Eastside star was a collegiate standout for the Panthers.... He and his twin brother, former Kennedy star and NFL linebacker Devon McDonald, were among the best high school football players in North Jersey during the 1980s. They also experienced personal tragedy that made them want to provide positive examples to Paterson's youth." * Tony Murphy (born 1957), retired basketball player who led NCAA Division I in scoring in 1979–80 with a 32.1 points per game average for

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from 1995 to 2001. *

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in 1996. *

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(born 1977), former

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and multiple time

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world title challenger. *

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(1927-2011), businessman and philanthropist who co-founded ADP. * Joe Taub (1929-2017), businessman who joined his brother

and

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in building the payroll company

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and later was part of an investment group that acquired the

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Fetty Wap Willie Junior Maxwell II (born June 7, 1991), better known by his stage names Fetty Wap or Harlem Fetty, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence after his debut single "Trap Queen" reached number two on the U.S. ''B ...

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Joseph Weber Joseph Weber (May 17, 1919 – September 30, 2000) was an American physicist. He gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser and developed the first gravitational wave detectors (Weber bars). Early educati ...

(1919–2000, class of 1935), physicist, developer of the laser and the gravitational wave detector. *

Jane Williams-Warren Jane Williams-Warren (born 1947) served as the second female African-American mayor of Paterson, New Jersey (2017–2018). Biography Williams-Warren was born in 1947 in Paterson where she was also raised. She attended Eastside High School (Pate ...

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Jerry Zaks Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is an American stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing ''The House of Blue Leaves'', ''Lend Me a Tenor'', and ''Six Degree ...

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"Tony-award winning director Jerry Zaks goes home to Paterson"
'' The Record'', March 27, 2016. Accessed October 18, 2021. "As if he was – at heart — just another student at Paterson's Eastside High School, which he graduated from 53 years ago.... Though Zaks, a New York resident since the late 1960s, hadn't been back to Eastside since 1963, when he graduated, Eastside came back to him – through his work."

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