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, in

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, United States. It was located within the

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. As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 291 students and 19.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 15.0.St. Joseph of the Palisades High School

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. Accessed August 18, 2008. On February 27, 2009, it was announced the school would close at the end of the 2008-09 school year due to dwindling enrollment.Charles Hack. "St. Joe's High School told it will be closing in June" ''Jersey Journal'' February 27, 2009
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History

St. Joseph of the Palisades was established in 1931. The school had been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools since 1961. This high school was also a member of the

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and the

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. Prior to 1972, the school was divided by gender with a girls' teaching department and a boys' teaching department. Under the guidance of Father Gerald Walsh, the two departments merged to become the co-ed school located at 5400 Broadway Avenue, West New York, New Jersey. By 2009, the student body numbered 222. The school's budget shortfall was $400,000, and the parish was in debt for $1.5 million, incurred as a result of supporting the school. Because the school required at least 275 students to remain financially solvent, final permission to close the school was granted in a February 12 letter from Archbishop of Newark

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to the Rev. Monsignor Gregory K. Studerus, pastor of St. Joseph of the Palisades Church, who informed the school's advisory board February 25. At the time, it was the latest of many

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schools in the county to fall on such hard times. Students and former students expressed opposition to the closure, and a protest was held to express this. The last graduation ceremony was held on June 5, 2009; 64 seniors graduated, with six more expected to complete their coursework during that summer. Principal Bruce Segall applied to the state to start a new charter school to serve the remaining underclassmen, hoping to use the St. Joseph building,Amanda Staab. "Schools' out forever" ''

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''. June 14, 2009. Pages 1 and 10 but his application was not approved. The sale of the building to the city of West New York as a means of expanding

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was one possibility mentioned.

Athletics

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. The league, now defunct, operated under the supervision of the

. St. Joseph of the Palisades High School offered various athletic sports to its students including: Boys athletics * Basketball * Baseball * Bowling * Football * Soccer * Swimming * Tennis Girls athletics * Basketball * Bowling * Soccer * Softball * Swimming * Tennis * Volleyball The boys basketball team won the Non-Public Group B state championship in 1947 (against runner-up St. Mary's High School of Perth Amboy in the playoff final), 1949 (vs.

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) and 1971 (vs.

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). The 1947 team won the Parochial B title with a late push to defeat St. Mary's by a score of 47-43 in the championship game. The football team was awarded the Non-Public B North state sectional championship in 1974, after the NJSIAA decided to exclude

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(with an 8-1 record and having outscored opponents 293-7) and

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(with a single loss on its schedule), which were thought to have schedules that were insufficiently challenging. The girls bowling team won the overall state championship in 1979.

Notable alumni

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(born 1950), former

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director. * J. D. Maarleveld (born 1961),

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who played in the NFL for the

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. * Ed Murawinski (born 1951, class of 1969), cartoonist best known for his work for the ''

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'', October 31, 2006. Accessed October 24, 2018. "'We didn't have art classes when I went to St. Joseph f the Palisades' Murawinski said. 'So I spent a lot of time just doodling on the back of notebooks and what have you.' After he graduated from St. Joseph of the Palisades in 1969, Murawinski went to fine-tune his artistic craft at the New York School for Visual Arts."

References

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