Rising Star Academy is a private Islamic day school for students in pre-K through twelfth grades, located in Union City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, established in 2009.Cusido, Carmen
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'', February 8, 2010. As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 216 students (plus 21 in PreK) and 29.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 7.2:1. The school's student body was 55.6% (120) Black, 41.2% (89) White and 3.2% (7) Hispanic.School data for Rising Star Academy

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. Accessed March 10, 2022.

History

Rising Star Academy opened in September 2009 by the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center, a

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Muslim mosque established in 1992 in Union City. The mosque's 2,000-member congregation includes approximately 500 Latino converts from other religions, such as Catholicism. The school received accreditation from the

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Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools in May 2016 and is accredited untilJuly 2024.Rising Star Academy

Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed December 30, 2022.

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