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Tenafly High School is a four-year comprehensive community
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Tenafly Tenafly () is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 census the borough had a population of 15,409,
in
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, United States, serving students in
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s as the lone secondary school of the
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. Students from the neighboring community of
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attend the school as part of a
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with the
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. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,228 students and 109.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a
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of 11.2:1. There were 16 students (1.3% of enrollment) eligible for
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and 6 (0.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Tenafly High School
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. Accessed December 1, 2022.


History

Until October 1962, when the initial wing of Cresskill High School opened, Cresskil's students in grades seven to twelve had attended Tenafly High School. Students already in the Tenafly district for grades 11 and 12 when the Cresskill school opened remained at Tenafly High School until graduation.


Awards, recognition and rankings

Tenafly High School was recognized by the National Blue Ribbon School Award by the
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at a special assembly to the Tenafly High School community on September 20, 2005. Tenafly was the only high school in New Jersey and one of 38 public high schools in the U.S. to receive the 2005 Blue Ribbon School Award. The school was the 17th-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 3rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 3rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school third in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 2nd in the magazine's 2006 rankings out of 316 schools included across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 68th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 42 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.2%) and language arts literacy (97.3%) components of the
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(HSPA). In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by ''
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'', the school was ranked 19th in New Jersey and 720th nationwide. Tenafly High School was the 2nd-highest ranked school in New Jersey in a 2007 listing by ''
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'' magazine of the top 1,200 U.S. high schools . In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''
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'' ranked the school 253rd in the nation among participating public high schools and 20th among schools in New Jersey. The school was ranked 198th in the nation and 16th in New Jersey on the list of "America's Best High Schools 2012" prepared by ''
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'', with rankings based primarily on graduation rate, matriculation rate for college and number of
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courses taken per student, with lesser factors based on average scores on the SAT / ACT, average AP/IB scores and the number of AP/IB courses available to students.


Extracurricular activities

In 2012, the Tenafly High School Marching Band came in first place for group 3A in the USBands Marching Band Competition in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.


Athletics

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compete in the
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, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Bergen and
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counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the
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(NJSIAA). Before the 2010 realignment, Tenafly competed in the
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(BCSL) American Conference, which included public and private high schools located in Bergen and Hudson counties. With 910 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Ivy White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league. The football team is one of the 12 programs assigned to the two Ivy divisions starting in 2020, which are intended to allow weaker programs ineligible for playoff participation to compete primarily against each other. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III North for football for 2018–2020. The name for the school's athletic teams is the Tigers, and its
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are black and orange, adopted in the 1920s as a nod to those of
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. The school participates as the host school / lead agency in a joint ice hockey team with Cresskill High School. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The boys' cross country team won the Group III state championship three consecutive years, from 1955 to 1957. The boys track team won the indoor relay Group III state championship in 1966, won the Group I-II title in 1967, 1968 and 1977, and won the Group II title in 1975. The program's five state group titles are tied for eighth-most in the state. The boys track team won the Group III spring track state championship in 1957 and the Group II title in 1967. The 1975 boys' soccer team finished the season with a record of 18-1-2 after a scoreless tie in the playoff finals with Ewing High School made them the Group III co-champion. In 2014, the boys' soccer team won their first state sectional title in 11 years with a 4–1 win against
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in the North I, Group III state sectional final. Tenafly is noted for its
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team, which has been coached by Anthony Zorovich. The boys' tennis team won the Group I/II state championship in 1975 (vs.
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), and won four consecutive Group II titles in 2004 (vs.
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), 2005 (vs. Summit High School), 2006 (vs. West Essex High School) and 2007 (vs.
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). The 1975 team finished the season with a record of 17-1 after defeating
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5–0 in the semifinals and moving on to defeat Princeton 3-1 in the finals win the Group I/II state title. The team won the 2006 Group II state championship, defeating Rumson-Fair Haven 3–2 in the semifinals and West Essex by 3–2 in the finals to take the title. In 2007, the team won the state sectionals defeating Dwight Morrow High School 5–0 to win the North I, Group II championship, the team's sixth consecutive sectional title. The team moved onto win the 2007 NJSIAA Group II state championship, defeating Rumson-Fair Haven 3–2 in the final match to earn their fourth consecutive Group II state championship. The 2019 team won the Group III title over
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4–1 in the tournament final. The girls' tennis team won the Group II state championship in 1976 (vs.
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) and 2007 (vs.
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); the 2007 team advanced to the finals of the Tournament of Champions, losing to
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. In 2007, the girls' tennis team took the North I, Group II state sectionals with a string of 5-0 wins over
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in the quarterfinals, Newton High School in the semis and
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in the finals. The win was the eighth sectional title in team history. The team took the Group II state championship with a 3½-1½ win over
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in the semifinals and
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in the finals by a 3–2 score. The girls volleyball team won the Division B state championship in 1981 (against
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in the final match of the tournament) and won the Group II title in 1982 (vs. Garfield High School). The 1981 team won the inaugural NJSIAA state title, winning the Group I-II championship in two games (15-11, 16–14) against finals opponent Park Ridge. The 1982 team won the Group II title in two games (15–10 and 15–12) against Garfield. The ice hockey team won the McMullen Cup in 2002. The team made the Public B state finals in 2012 but fell to Summit High School by a score of 2–1 in overtime.


Administration

The school's principal is Jim Morrison. His administration team includes the vice principal and athletic director.


Notable alumni

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