set bookmark!

Union City High School, United States

Category: Attraction

Address details

2500 Kennedy Blvd
Union City
NJ 07087
USA

Union City, United States Print route » N40° 46' 13.08" W74° 2' 10.68"   (40.7703, -74.0363) Start navigation »

Phone & WWW

Business hours

Info

Union City High School is a three-year comprehensive public high school serving students in tenth through twelfth grades from Union City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Union City Board of Education. The four-story school is located between Kennedy Boulevard and Summit Avenue, from 24th to 26th Street, with additional facilities a block south on Kerrigan Avenue. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1928.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,629 students and 174.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.1:1. There were 2,184 students (83.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 287 (10.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school opened in September 2009, merging the student bodies of the city's prior two high schools, Union Hill High School and Emerson High School, and marking the first high school opened in the city in 90 years. The school, which was built on the site of the former Roosevelt Stadium, cost $180 million, covers 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) and includes a rooftop football field. The school's colors are navy blue and silver.

Discussions