Marist High School was a private
Roman Catholic
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co-education
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al college preparatory secondary school located in
Bayonne, New Jersey
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, United States, and operated by the
Marist Brothers of the Schools, an international religious congregation of educators with schools in over 70 countries. It was located within the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark
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. The school had been accredited by the
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Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1978.
[Marist High School]
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Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed July 11, 2011.
As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 309 students and 24 classroom teachers (on an
FTE basis), for a
student–teacher ratio
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of 12.9:1. The school's student body was 42.4% (131) Black, 20.7% (64) Asian, 16.5% (51) White, 13.9% (43) Hispanic and 5.5% (17) two or more races.
[School data for Marist High School]
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. Accessed September 1, 2020.
Despite plans to convert it into a middle school and sports complex, the school was demolished in 2022 due to a lack of funds for lead and asbestos remediation.
History
Marist opened its doors in September 1954, with Brother Leo Sylvius serving as the school's first principal. In 1962, the present campus was acquired to accommodate the school's growth after negotiations led by Brother Leo to acquire land owned by the City of Bayonne, and on April 23, 1964, ground was broken for a new building which would tie together existing buildings on the campus. A modern structure was constructed with 24 classrooms, lecture rooms and laboratories for physics, chemistry, biology and earth science, an art studio, a computer center, and a weight room. A library with a complete audio-visual department, a guidance complex with a career resource center, together with a large gymnasium-auditorium complex and cafeteria were also included as part of the new school building. In 1977, additional land was acquired for expanding the school's athletic facilities. In 1995, an athletic field was built in back of the school.
In 1986, Marist began admitting women and became a co-educational high school.
[About]
Marist High School. Accessed December 2, 2015. Students from throughout Hudson and Essex counties and the surrounding metropolitan area attend the school. Marist was established primarily for Catholic students.
In 2008 the school's enrollment began decreasing in a manner described by Caitlin Mota of ''
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'' as "steadily", and by 2017 9th grade student enrollment was down about 50% from the beginning of the decrease.
In March 2017 the school stated that it could potentially close if $1.5 million was not raised in donations to keep the school open.
[ The deadline for the task was April 24. In April the Marist Brothers stated that it would be open for the 2017–2018 school year. This was despite the fact only $750,000 had been raised by the deadline. In December the organization would continue to keep it open by any means possible; the organization decided back in April that it had been unable to keep funding the school.
The school announced in January 2020 that it would close at the end of the 2019–20 school year due to deficits that had risen to $1 million and enrollment that had declined by 50% since 2008.
]
Athletics
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. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in the Hudson County Interscholastic League, which is comprised of private and parochial high schools in Hudson County, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
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(NJSIAA). With 271 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Non-Public B for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 37 to 366 students in that grade range (equivalent to Group I for public schools). The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Non-Public Group II for football for 2018–2020.
The 1994 football team, led by coach Gene Pagnozzi, won the NJSIAA Non-Public Group II state sectional title with a 16–13 victory against Gloucester Catholic High School in the championship game played at Giants Stadium
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. The team won three consecutive county championships from 1991 to 1993 and went to four straight sectional championship games from 1993 to 1996.
The girls' basketball team won the Non-Public Group B state championship, defeating Sacred Heart High School in the tournament final. During his 19 seasons, girls basketball coach Bill Defazio won four sectional titles, including in 2008 against Gill St. Bernard's School in the finals of Non-Public B North B tournament.
The boys basketball team won the Non-Public Group B state championship in 1992, defeating Eustace Preparatory School in the finals. Former coach Mike Leonardo had a 209–46 record; 20 players under Leonardo received a Division I scholarships.
Champagnat Scholars Program
Marist High School is known for their Champagnat Scholars Program (CSP). This program is for very gifted and academically inclined students. Students (in as early as their Freshman Year) can obtain college credits by taking Advanced Placement classes offered at Marist. Currently, there are about 30 students in CSP.
Notable alumni
* Joe Borowski (born 1971), professional baseball player for the Cleveland Indians
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* Thomas B. Considine (class of 1982), former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance
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* Joseph Doria (born 1946), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly
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, and as the mayor of Bayonne
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* Asante Gist (born 1997), professional basketball
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player for the Maine Celtics
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of the NBA G League
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* Ed Murphy (born 1956), basketball player who played professionally in Europe.
* Manny Súarez (born 1993), basketball player who has competed internationally on the Chilean national team.
Notable faculty
* Larry Arico (born 1969), former college football head coach.[Armstrong, Kevin]
"Coach's Career Risk Keeps Paying Off at St. John's"
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'', January 26, 2010. Accessed October 9, 2017. "When she called her boyfriend, Larry Arico (pronounced uh-REE-koh), then the football coach at Fairleigh Dickinson, he asked her how the game went. We lost by 100,' she said. 'I didn't believe her,' Arico, now her husband as well as the athletic director and football coach at Marist High in Bayonne, N.J., said Monday."
References
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