Bergenfield High School

Infobox School
name = Bergenfield High School


motto =
established =
type = Public high school
principal = Hank Sinatra
asst principal = Jim Fasano
Peter Turnamiam
enrollment = 1,287 (as of 2005-06)
faculty = 71.9 (on FTE basis)
ratio = 17.9
colors = Red, White, Black
teamname = Bears
conference = North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League
location = 80 South Prospect Avenue
Bergenfield, NJ 07621
information = 201-385-8600
website = [http://www.bergenfield.org/schools/bhs School website]

Bergenfield High School is a four-year, comprehensive public high school serving students from Bergenfield, in Bergen County, New Jersey. A suburb of New York City, Bergenfield has a population of 28,000 people, mostly consisting of people in professional, business, and technical fields. As part of the Bergenfield Public Schools, the district had a Total Comparative Cost per pupil in 2004-05 of around $10,185 (vs. an average of $11,172 in similar districts statewide). [ [http://education.state.nj.us/rc/rc05/dataselect.php?c=03;d=0300;s=020;lt=CD;st=CD&datasection=all BERGENFIELD HIGH 2004-05 SCHOOL REPORT CARD] , accessed December 5, 2006] Approximately 91% of Bergenfield High School students go on to two-year or four-year colleges or technical/business schools. The school's CEEB code is 310090.

Bergenfield High School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the New Jersey Department of Education.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,287 students and 71.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 17.9. [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3401500&ID=340150000268 Bergenfield High School] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 16, 2007.]

The school was the 234th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in "New Jersey Monthly" magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools". The school was ranked 192nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 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.]

Marching band

Bergenfield is well known for its marching band that resemble the British Royal Guards. Their football half-time show-stoppers has made them famous for their strict discipline and musicianship - the Color Guards' training are even far more rigorous due to Michael DeLucia. With their enormous size of 179 members (as of 2007), the Company Front and Circle Expansion are a sight to behold. Aside from their many invitationals to different events, they have been invited to perform at Disney World (every four years) and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (every four years). The Record has placed them on the front cover of the November 2007 issue of Sports Magazine.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are: [ [http://www.bergenfield.org/schools/bhs/administration/index.html High School Administration] , Bergenfield High School. Accessed July 30, 2008.]
*Principal - Hank Sinatra
*Assistant Principals - Jim Fasano and Peter Turnamiam
*Dean of Discipline - Craig Vogt

Bergenfield High School has 110 faculty members including those listed above, four guidance counselors, two nurses, and two library/media center faculty.

Athletics

Bergenfield High School is one of the twelve schools participating in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League (NBIL/NBIAL). It plays under the team name of the Bergenfield Bears. Alex Turnamian is Bergenfield's Athletic Director.

Most sports have Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman teams, but some only have the top one or two tiers.

Note: Sports marked with an asterisk (*) usually practice and compete with each other, but they are two separate teams and officially compete and are scored separately.

*Fall sports teams: Cross Country (Boys)*, Cross Country (Girls)*, Football, Soccer (Boys), Soccer (Girls), Tennis (Girls) and Volleyball
*Winter sports teams: Basketball (Boys), Basketball (Girls), Bowling (Boys)*, Bowling (Girls)*, Track (Boys)*, Track (Girls)* and Wrestling
*Spring sports teams: Baseball, Softball, Golf (Boys)*, Golf (Girls)*, Tennis (Boys), Track (Boys)* and Track (Girls)*

Curriculum

Bergenfield High School offers a wide range of courses in the areas of art, business and marketing, English, health and physical education, industrial and technological education, mathematics, music, science, social studies, and world language. Class levels range from modified to Advanced Placement. Full- and half-year electives are also offered, and health classes are offered as a quarter-year elective within all gym classes.

Advanced Placement Program (AP) Courses include AP Studio Art, AP Art History, AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Calculus, AP Computer Science, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP United States History, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Music Theory, and AP Spanish Language.

Bergenfield High School offers medical field based classes where the students have an opportunity to receive college credits from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Classes include Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology, Dynamics of Healthcare, Emergency and Clinical Care

Notable alumni

* Harry Basil, stand-up comic, actor in "Peggy Sue Got Married" and director.Beckerman, Jim. [http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MzgmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY2OTk5NzUmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk5 "A revolutionary stage designer"] , "The Record (Bergen County)", May 29, 2005. Accessed June 24, 2005. "I guess we were just lucky," says Charles Bogusat, festival co-founder and for 29 years teacher of the video production class (formerly called filmmaking class) at Bergenfield High School. "Thom Fitzgerald, when he was a student, did this super-8 animated project about a bear, beautifully drawn," Bogusat remembers. "Harry Basil did a film called 'Land Shark."']
* Thom Fitzgerald (born 1968), filmmaker "The Hanging Garden", "The Event", "3 Needles".
* Al Di Meola (born 1954), jazz fusion guitarist. [ [http://www.telarc.com/biography/bios.asp?aid=25 Al Di Meola] , Telarc International Corporation. Accessed September 20, 2007. "“In the ‘60s, if you didn’t play like Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page, you weren’t accepted,” he recalls of his high school years in Bergenfield, New Jersey."]
* Bob Gaudio (born 1942), singer, songwriter and producer, of the group The Four Seasons. [ [http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/gaudio_bob/bio.jhtml Bob Gaudio] , VH1. Accessed November 16, 2007. "As he was entering high school, his family moved to Bergenfield, NJ, where he attended Bergenfield High School."]
* Bernard Goldberg (born 1945), the television news reporter and author of "Bias", a New York Times number one bestseller about how the media distort the news.
* Bob Guccione (born 1930), publisher of "Penthouse" magazine
* Floyd James Thompson (born 1933), America's longest held Prisoner of War. [Martin, Douglas. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE1D71339F93BA25754C0A9649C8B63 "F. J. Thompson, 69, Longtime P.O.W., Dies"] , "The New York Times", July 18, 2002. Accessed April 4, 2008. "Floyd James Thompson was born in Bergenfield, N.J., on July 8, 1933, the son of a bus driver. He worked in a grocery store and graduated from Bergenfield High School in 1951."]
* Ron Villone (born 1970), pitcher for the New York Yankees. [ [http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/V/ron-villone.shtml Ron Villone] , accessed November 23, 2006.]
* Jacklyn Zeman (born 1963), actress who has played Barbara "Bobbie" Spencer on "General Hospital" since 1977.Fact|date=August 2008

References

External links

* [http://www.bergenfield.org/schools/bhs Bergenfield High School]
* [http://www.bergenfield.org Bergenfield Public Schools]
*NJReportCard|03|0300|0|Bergenfield Public Schools
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3401500 Data for the Bergenfield Public Schools] , National Center for Education Statistics
* [http://www.bergenfield.org/schools/bhs/BHS_School_Profile_2005-2006.pdf Bergenfield High School Profile]