Glen Rock High School
Glen Rock High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Glen Rock, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Glen Rock Public Schools.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 731 students and 77.6 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 9.4:1. There were 6 students eligible for free lunch and 4 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was one of 18 schools statewide honored in 2018 by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program by the United States Department of Education.In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 137th out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 25th among all high schools in New Jersey and 12th among the state's non-magnet schools. In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", The Daily Beast ranked the school 218th in the nation among participating public high schools and 17th overall in New Jersey. Glen Rock was ranked 30th in New Jersey and 287th nationwide in Newsweek magazine's 2012 issue of "America's Best High Schools." In the 2012 "Ranking America's Best High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 40th in New Jersey and 1,028th nationwide. In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 31st in New Jersey and 1,070th nationwide. Glen Rock was ranked 874th, the 24th-highest in New Jersey, in Newsweek magazine's 2010 rankings of America's Best High Schools. In Newsweek's May 22, 2007, issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Glen Rock High School was listed in 964th place, the 28th-highest ranked school in New Jersey. The school was ranked as number 614 in the April 30, 2006 issue, the 18th highest ranked school in New Jersey.
The school was the 8th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 4th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 28th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 28th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 6th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 31st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics and language arts literacy components of the High School Proficiency Assessment.
Publications
The Glen Echo, the school newspaper, released an in 2012. Led by faculty adviser Jason Toncic, this transition was covered extensively by local media sources.Athletics
The Glen Rock High School Panthers compete in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, made up of private and public high schools located in Bergen County, Hudson County and Passaic County, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 558 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North I, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 495 to 762 students in that grade range. Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Glen Rock was a member of the smaller Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League.Glen Rock's athletic teams have been successful in recent years. The football team won five consecutive state championships, from 1998-2002, one short of the state record. The football team has also won the North I Group I state sectional championships in 1980 and 1996, in addition to winning in North I Group II in 1988. The football team won the 2001 North I, Group I state sectional championship with a 22-14 win against Cresskill High School. The team won its fifth consecutive sectional championship with a 41-0 win against Henry P. Becton Regional High School in 2002.
The girls soccer team has also been a state power for a decade. In 2012, the girls soccer team won the North I, Group II state sectional final with a 1-0 win against Ramsey High School. They went on to win the Group II State title with a 4-0 win against Bordentown Regional High School.
The girls tennis team took the North I, Group I sectional title in 1999 with a 4-1 win vs. Henry P. Becton Regional High School in the tournament finals.
Glen Rock is one of the smallest high schools in New Jersey to support ice hockey and lacrosse programs. Because the NJIC does not offer competition in these sports, Glen Rock is a member of the Big North Conference for hockey and competes in lacrosse-specific leagues for both boys' and girls' lacrosse. The ice hockey team specifically has been very successful in recent years, including winning 4 straight Big North Silver/Freedom championships, making the semi-finals of the Public B state tournament twice and making the championship in 2016, before winning their first state title in 2017 with an 8-1 victory over Wall High School.
;State titles:
- Women's Soccer - 11 - Group I Group II ; The 11 titles won by the program are the second-most of any public school in the state
- Football - 8 - Group I Group II
- Women's Spring Track & Field - 7 - Group II Group I
- Women's Cross Country - 3 - Group I
- Wrestling - 2 - Group I
- Women's Tennis - 2 - Group I
- Men's Cross Country - 1 - Group I
- Men's Tennis - 1 - Group I
- Baseball - 1 - Group II
- Ice Hockey - 1 - Public B
Administration
Notable alumni
- Keith Cardona, goalkeeper who played for the Indy Eleven of the North American Soccer League.
- Daniel Flaherty, actor, known for his role as Stanley Lucerne on the MTV television teen drama Skins.
- Paul Melicharek, professional football player for the Green Bay Blizzard of the Indoor Football League.
- Samuel Petrone, professional soccer player who plays for Swedish football club, Mjällby AIF.
- Patrick Stickles, singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the band Titus Andronicus.
- Charlie Tahan, actor, known for his roles in Frankenweenie, I Am Legend and Charlie St. Cloud.
- Floyd Vivino, star of The Uncle Floyd Show.
- Jimmy Vivino, musician.