Hoboken Charter School is a K-12

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Hoboken Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,69 ...

, in

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, United States. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 298 students and 28.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.6:1. There were 58 students (19.5% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 7 (2.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Hoboken Charter School
National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022.

History

On January 15, 1997, Leo Klagholz, the New Jersey Commissioner of Education, enacted the school's charter. The school opened in 1997 with classes in the Demarest Building and had its charter extended for five years in 2001. In 2010, the school moved its K-8 students into the former Academy of the Sacred Heart building. In 2012, the K-8 building was hit by a fire categorized as three alarm; it would be unavailable until September 2013. The former St. Anne's School (of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark) in

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was the temporary class location. Additionally

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in late 2012 had disrupted operations of the school. In 2013 Arne Duncan,

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in the Obama administration, released a YouTube video praising the school.

Athletics

The Hoboken Charter High School CougarsHoboken Charter High School
New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete independently in interscholastic sports under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021
New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.

References

External links

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