Union Hill High School

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name = Union Hill High School

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grades = 9 - 12
district = Union City Board of Education
type = Public high school
principal = David Wilcomes
asst principal = Pat Stecklein
Kenneth Such
Asterio Velasco
enrollment = 1,505 (as of 2005-06)
faculty = 113.9 (on FTE basis)
ratio = 13.2
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conference = Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association
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location = 3800 Hudson Avenue
Union City, NJ 07087
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website = [http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/schools/uchs/uhhs/uhhs_new/index.html School website]

Union City High School (formerly Union Hill High School) is a four-year public high school in Union City, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Union City Board of Education, an Abbott District. The school was built in what was formerly Union Hill, New Jersey, which merged with West Hoboken in 1925 to form Union City. The school retained the name Union Hill High School, however, until the school year beginning in September 2008, when it was changed to its current name.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,505 students and 113.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.2. [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3416380&ID=341638002910 Emerson High School] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 12, 2008.]

The school was the 233rd-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 268th 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.]

Through the 2007-08 school year, the city is served by two public high schools, Emerson High School and Union City High School. Starting in September 2009 Union City High School and Emerson High Schools will merge into a single school to be called Union City High School in a building on the site of the former Roosevelt Stadium. [Hu, Winnie. [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/nyregion/22union.htm "After 88 Years of Rivalry, the Last as Us and Them"] , "The New York Times", November 22, 2007. Accessed January 2, 2008. "But today’s so-called Turkey Game signals the end of the tradition. Next fall, the two schools will merge in a new $176 million building.... The new Union City High School will take up four-and-a-half acres in the center of the city, squeezed between row houses and commercial strips. It will have a football field and bleachers built on the roof so that players will no longer have to share the facilities at José Martí Middle School."]

Athletics

Union City High School competes in the Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association (HCIAA), which includes private and parochial high schools in Hudson County. The league operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). [ [http://www.hciaa.com/home.html Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association] . Accessed July 15, 2007.]

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are: [ [http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/schools/uchs/uhhs/uhhs_new/administration.html Administration] , Union Hill High School. Accessed August 12, 2008.]
*David Wilcomes - Principal
*Kenneth Such - Assistant Principal
*Pat Stecklein - Assistant Principal
*Asterio Velasco - Assistant Principal

Notable alumni

*Nick Galis (born 1957), retired Greek basketball player and member of the FIBA Hall of Fame. [Psarakis, Yannis. [http://www.fibaeurope.com/cid_wro9VQVdG7cxqdc3r6woH2.coid_TAEWX2DlJdkjxfsVfUULa3.articleMode_on.html "Nikos Galis - Europe's Greatest-Ever Scorer"] , FIBA Europe. Accessed November 24, 2007. "Her horror at seeing her son come home every day with a new facial injury led to Galis taking up basketball and in 1970 began to play at Union Hill High School."]
*Bob Menendez (born 1954), represents New Jersey in the United States Senate. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000639 Congressional Biography of Robert Menendez] , accessed March 8, 2007]
*Frederick Reines (1918-1998), Nobel Prize-winning physicist who co-discovered the neutrino. [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1995/reines-autobio.html Frederick Reines: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 - Autobiography] , accessed April 5, 2007. "By this time the family had returned to New Jersey, and I was a student at Union Hill High School."]

References

External links

* [http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/schools/uchs/uhhs/uhhs_new/index.html Union City High School]
* [http://www.union-city-nj.org/modules/AMS/ Union City Board of Education]
*NJReportCard|17|5240|0|Union City Board of Education
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3416380 Data for the Union City Board of Education] , National Center for Education Statistics