Indian Hills High School (New Jersey)

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name = Indian Hills High School


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grades = 9 - 12
district = Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District
type = Public high school
principal = Albert A. Evangelista
asst principal = Joseph Collins
Gregg Desiderio
enrollment = 986 (as of 2005-06) [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3413560&ID=341356000726 Data for Ramapo High School] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2007.]
faculty = 73.7 (on FTE basis)
ratio = 13.4
nickname = Braves
conference = North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League
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location = 97 Yawpo Avenue
Oakland, NJ 07436
information = 201-337-0100
website = [http://www.rih.org/indianhills/ School website]

Indian Hills High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Bergen County, New Jersey. The school is a part of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District, serving students from Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff. The high school is located in Oakland. Ramapo High School is the other high school in the district. The school was built in 1973 under Dawley Construction.

For the 2005-06 school year, Indian Hills High School had an enrollment of 986 students in grades 9-12, and 73.7 faculty members (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.4. [ [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3413560&ID=341356000724 Indian Hills High School] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 29, 2007.]

The school was the 40th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 314 schools statewide, in "New Jersey Monthly" magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools". The school was ranked 36th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. [ [http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/highschoolrankings/top-new-jersey-high-schools-by-rank.html "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank"] , "New Jersey Monthly", September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.]

Athletics

Indian Hills High School participates in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League.

Indian Hills High School has a long-standing rivalry with Ramapo High School, most notably with the school's football, swimming, and fencing teams. [Cummins, Jeff. "Indian H. stuns Ramapo", "The Record (Bergen County)", November 29, 2003. "Nathanson kicked a 38-yard field goal in The driving rain with 42 seconds left to give Indian Hills a 16-14 win over arch-rival Ramapo on Friday night."]

The 2003 Girls Soccer team won the North I Group II tournament, defeating River Dell Regional High School 1-0 in the final. [ [http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=49661&tclass=North%20I%20-%202 2003 Girls Soccer - North I - 2] , NJSIAA, accessed April 29, 2007.]

The Girls Softball team won the 2003 North I, Group II title over Hopatcong High School, winning by a score of 6-1. [ [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=0FB5E3C322B987AB&p_docnum=7&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=S51C57XOMTE4NTg0NzQ0OS4yODY4NjU6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "Emerson shuts out Midland Park"] , "The Record (Bergen County)", May 30, 2003. Accessed August 1, 2007. "North 1, Group 2: INDIAN HILLS 6, HOPATCONG 1 - Danielle DeCarlo, Ashley Funari, and Erin Kindle each had an RBI as the top-seeded Braves jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning of the sectional final."] [ [http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=37922&tclass=North%20I,%20Group%20II 2003 Softball Tournament - North I, Group II] , NJSIAA, accessed April 29, 2007.]

In 2005, the Girls Tennis team took the North I, Group II championship, beating Tenafly High School 3½-1½. [ [http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=123564&tclass=North%20I%2C%20Group%20II 2005 Girls Team Tennis - North I, Group II] , NJSIAA, accessed April 29, 2007.]

The baseball team took the North I, Group II state sectional title in 2007 with a 5-0 win over Westwood Regional High School. [ [http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=220867&tclass=North%20I%2C%20Group%20II 2007 Baseball - North I, Group II] , NJSIAA. Accessed July 22, 2007.]

The Academic Decathlon team (which receives a varsity letter) won the state championship in 2006 and in 2007. They attended the national USAD competition in San Antonio, TX in 2006, and the national USAD competition in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2007.

Administration

*Albert A. Evangelista - Principal
*Joseph Collins - Assistant Principal
*Gregg Desiderio - Assistant Principal
*Robert B. Van Saders - Director of Athletics and Student Activities

References

External links

* [http://www.rih.org/indianhills/ Indian Hills High School website]
*NJReportCard|03|4300|030|Indian Hills High School
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3413560&ID=341356000724 Data for Indian Hills High School] , National Center for Education Statistics