North Arlington High School is a

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in North Arlington,

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. It is the lone secondary school of the

North Arlington School District The North Arlington School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from North Arlington in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2021–22 school ...

. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 570 students and 51.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 11.1:1. There were 104 students (18.2% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 25 (4.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for North Arlington High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022.

History

Until September 1933, high school-aged students from North Arlington attended Kearny High School. Starting with the 1933-34 school year, students leaving eighth grade began attending

Hasbrouck Heights High School Hasbrouck Heights High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hasbrouck Heights and Teterboro in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone high school ...

. By June 1934, the district had been informed that neither Kearny nor Hasbrouck Heights had capacity to host students from North Arlington. In June 1935 the district announced that it would ending its relationship with Kearny after 25 years and that for the upcoming school year seniors would be in Hasbrouck Heights while about 350 students in grades 9-11 would be at a new North Arlington High School, for which the district was seeking funding to construct an appropriate building.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 196th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in ''

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'' magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 149th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 141st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 198th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 182nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Athletics

The North Arlington High School VikingsNorth Arlington High School

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. participate in the Meadowlands Division of the

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, which is comprised of small-enrollment schools in Bergen,

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and

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counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the

(NJSIAA). Prior to the realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, North Arlington was a part of the

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's National division. With 385 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I North for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 184 to 471 students. The school participates in a joint cooperative boys / girls swimming and wrestling teams with

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as the host school / lead agency. North Arlington and

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participate in a joint ice hockey team, in which Kearny High School is the host school. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The school's nickname is the Vikings, and the school colors are royal blue and white. The school's athletic rivals are Lyndhurst High School and

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. The school offers many boys' and girls' athletic programs that include: *Fall: volleyball, football, boys' and girls' soccer, cheerleading, cross country, marching band *Winter: boys' and girls' basketball, cheerleading, boys’ and girls’ bowling, hockey (co-op with Kearny), swimming, wrestling *Spring: baseball, golf, softball, rowing crew, and boys' and girls' track Note: :combined with Lyndhurst High School The boys' basketball team won the Group I state championship in 1953 (defeating Riverside High School in the tournament final), 1956 (vs.

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) and 1957 (vs.

Wildwood High School Wildwood High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Wildwood, in Cape May County, New Jersey. It is the sole secondary school of the Wildwood City School District. ...

). The 1953 team finished the season with a record of 18-5 after winning the Group I title with a 66-60 win against Riverside High School in the championship game played at the Elizbeth Armory. The 1957 won the Group I championship game with a 68-39 win against Wildwood at

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. The 2001 girls basketball team under Head Coach Joseph Spaccavento won the North I Group I state sectional championship over

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by a final score of 49-48. The girls volleyball team won the Group I state championship in 2004 (against runner-up

).NJSIAA Girls Volleyball Group Champions

. Accessed May 1, 2023. The boys bowling team won the Group I state championship in 2019.History of NJSIAA Boys Bowling Championships

. Accessed August 1, 2022.

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