Northern Highlands Regional High School

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Northern Highlands Regional High School (NHRHS) is a comprehensive regional public high school and school district in Allendale, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The high school serves students in grades 9–12 from Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Saddle River, and Upper Saddle River. Current school population is approximately 1,318 with 346 students enrolled in the 12th grade.

Among 264 graduates in 2005, 256 (97%) planned to attend college. Of those attending college, 250 (95%) planned to attend four-year colleges and 6 (2%) to attend two-year colleges.

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

The school newspaper is called The Highland Fling.

1 Awards and recognition
2 Administration
3 Curriculum
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Awards and recognition

Northern Highlands Regional High School was the 7th ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools^[1].

[edit] Administration

Chief School Administrator - Robert M. McGuire, Ed.D.
Principal - John Keenan
Vice-Principal - Joseph Occhino
Dean of Student Activities - Robert Williams
Student Coordinators - Lorenzo Baratta and Troy Lederman

[edit] Curriculum

Northern Highlands has a four-day rotating schedule. Students are scheduled for eight courses, six of which meet daily. This schedule provides longer segments of time (57 minute periods) to engage in higher-order thinking and performance-based learning. To receive a Northern Highlands Regional High School diploma, all students must pass the New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), and earn a minimum of 125 credits including: 4 years of English and a freshman writing course for one semester; 1 year of World History / Cultures; 2 years of United States History; 3 years of Mathematics; 3 years of Science; 2 years of World Languages; 2 years of Career Education & Consumer, Family, and Life Skills, one semester of which is Computer Applications; 2 years of Visual and Performing Arts; and a year of Physical Education and/or Health for each year a student is in attendance at Northern Highlands.

Elective offerings in Visual and Performing Arts include: all art and music classes, Acting I, Actors’ Workshop, Creative Writing I and II, Journalism, TV Production I and II, and Film Studies. Semester courses include: Digital Multimedia and Web Page Design, as well as Mass Communications, Introduction to TV and Film, and Public Speaking. Elective offerings in Family and Life Skills include: Business, Computer classes, Industrial Technology, Family and Consumer Sciences, Music and Fine Arts. Semester courses include Digital Multimedia and Web Page Design which may apply EITHER to Visual and Performing Arts requirements OR Family and Life Skills, and Personal Finance and Investment, Entrepreneurship, Financial Management and Accounting, and Sports and Entertainment Marketing.

Presently, there are 37 Honors courses — two of which are Syracuse University Honors Project Advance classes in Forensic Science and Writing Studio I/ Reading Interpretation — and 19 Advanced Placement courses, in AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP United States History, AP European History, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP French Language, AP Spanish Language, AP Latin Literature, AP Macroeconomics, AP Computer Science A, AP Art History, AP Studio Art, AP United States Government and Politics, and AP Music Theory. AP courses are available to juniors and seniors only. Although very few Highlanders take a study, those students who take two lab sciences must have a study.