BLOOMFIELD HIGH SCHOOL (NEW JERSEY)

'Bloomfield High School' (BHS) is a four-year public high school that is located in Bloomfield, New Jersey.

Contents

Ethnicity

Student subgroups

Attendance and completion

Athletics

References

External links

Ethnicity

Bloomfield High School is known for its various minority groups. According to a 2004 to 2005 count done by the New Jersey Department of Education, Bloomfield High School's student ethnicity breakdown are as follows:

'Ethnicity'	'Bloomfield High School'	'State Average'
White	38%	57%
Hispanic	29%	18%
Black	22%	18%
Asian	11%	7%
Native American	<1%	<1%

Student subgroups

The town's wide range of income is represented in Bloomfield High School. In recent years, the school district has been plagued by an increase in violent crime and gang activity. There is now a constant police presence at both Bloomfield High School and Bloomfield Middle School.
Bloomfield High students continue to achieve admission to the country's most selective universities. The class of 2006 had 8 students accepted to Cornell University, and other students accepted to Yale, Brown, Columbia, and countless more to Universities such as Rutgers, Penn State, Loyola in Maryland. The class of 2007 continued to show Bloomfield's Talent, when students were accepted to Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown, Cornell, and many other universities.

Attendance and completion

BHS's mobility rate is 31%, which is immensely greater than the state average of 10%, however, despite the availability of transportation, the students' attendance is poor and falls short of other schools.
BHS also has a substandard graduation rate of 88%; some speculate that this maybe related to the students' poor attendance and low scores on the New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), a standardized test students are required to pass in order to graduating from the school.

Athletics

BHS's girls' softball team made it to the 2006 North I Group IV State Sectional Championship, falling to Ridgewood High School by 3-0.^[1]
The BHS boys volleyball team won the 2006 Essex County Championship for the first time in Bloomfield's History, after defeating Livingston High School. The team advanced to the State Sectional quarterfinals over Livingston High School once again, and fell to Fair Lawn High School.^[2]
The wrestling team won the 2007 North I, Group IV state sectional championship with a 34-33 win over Hackensack High School.^[3]

References

1. 2006 Softball - North I, Group IV, NJSIAA. Accessed August 26, 2006.
2. 2006 Boys Volleyball - North, NJSIAA. Accessed August 14, 2007.
3. 2007 Team Wrestling Tournament - North I, Group IV, NJSIAA. Accessed June 1, 2007.

External links

★ Bloomfield High School

★ Bloomfield Public Schools

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★ National Center for Education Statistics data for the Bloomfield Public Schools

★ GreaterSchools Statistics