St. Mary High School (Jersey City, New Jersey)
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St. Mary High School was a
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, Roman Catholic high school in
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until the school was closed in June 2011. As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 203 students and 12.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a
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of 15.9.St. Mary High School
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. Accessed September 2, 2011.


Athletics

The St. Mary High School Ramblers competed in the Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association, which includes public and private high schools in Hudson County, and operated under the supervision of the
New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) is an association of hundreds of New Jersey high schools that regulates high school athletics and holds tournaments and crowns champions in high school sports. State championsh ...
. The baseball team has won the Non-Public B state championship in 1981, defeating Saint James High School of
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in the tournament final. The boys basketball team won the Non-Public B state championship in 1967 (defeating
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of New Brunswick in the tournament final) and 1969 (vs. Gloucester Catholic High School), and won the Non-Public C title in 1972 (vs. St. Patrick's High School) and 1975 (vs.
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). The 1975 team finished with a record of 25-4 after holding off a furious rally by Sacred Heart to win the Parochial C title with a 51-50 victory in the championship game played at Brookdale Community College.The 1975 team finished the season with a record of 20-7 after defeating St. Cecilia by a score of 79-41 to win the Parochial B state championship game.


Closing

Despite a tuition that at $4,300 was little more than half of the rates charges by other schools in the Newark Archdiocese, falling enrollment meant that the school would have been too small to justify remaining open. After its founding in 1956, the school grew to a peak of 450 students in the 1980s, which had declined to 381 by 2000.Persaud, Vishal
"Announcement St. Mary High School in Jersey City will close in June has some parents, students and staff stunned"
'' The Jersey Journal'', February 9, 2011. Accessed September 2, 2011. "Parents, students and staff at St. Mary High School in Jersey City remained stunned yesterday by Monday's news that the school is closing at the end of June.... St. Mary will graduate 72 seniors in June, which would have put the school's enrollment at 93 among the remaining classes. Ten years ago, St. Mary had 381 students, Lalicato said. At its peak in the mid-1980s, the school had more than 450 students."
In 2008 Sisters of St. Joseph decided to no longer financially support the school. The 2010-11 graduating class of 72 combined with enrollment of under 15 students for the upcoming school year would have put total enrollment at an unsustainably small 100 students for the 2011-12 year, which led the Archdiocese to decide to close the school.


Notable alumni

* Jim Boylan (born 1955), basketball coach., who served as the interim head coach for the Chicago Bulls for part of the 2007–08 NBA season and as an interim coach for the Milwaukee Bucks for part of the
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. * Lori Serrano, former Commissioner and Chairwoman of the Jersey City Housing Authority.


Notable faculty

*
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(born 1935), college basketball player who set several records while playing for Saint Michael's College of Vermont in the late 1950s and who was athletic director at St. Mary for 30 years.Hague, Jim
"Scoreboard: Remembering the man they called 'Tiger'"
'' The Hudson Reporter'', January 18, 2005. Accessed January 3, 2018. "He was one of the greatest high school basketball players to ever come out of Ferris High School, becoming the school's all-time leading scorer in an era when scoring in basketball was as rare as the Hope Diamond.... Nicodemo then came home to become a teacher and coach at Ferris High School, eventually becoming a guidance counselor to thousands of students. He also spent almost 30 years as the athletic director at St. Mary's High School on Third Street, just around the corner from where he grew up."


References


External links


School WebsiteSt. Mary High School
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