TEANECK HIGH SCHOOL

'Teaneck High School' (also known as 'The Castle on the Hill') is a four-year comprehensive public high school, which is part of the Teaneck Public Schools district in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States.
The school was renovated in 2003-04, giving students new classrooms as well as a new student center.
Teaneck has also implemented two new academies for focuses in the sciences and the arts.
Teaneck's sports teams are nicknamed the Highwaymen (girls' teams are called the Highwaywomen) because of the school's proximity to Route 4 and for the highwaymen who would seize money and belongings from those traveling along highways during the 17th and 18th century.

Contents

Awards and recognition

History

Athletics

Fall

Winter

Spring

Notable alumni

References

External links

Awards and recognition

In ''Newsweek's'' May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Teaneck High School was listed in 1080th place, the 33rd-highest ranked school in New Jersey.^[1]

History

The school was opened in the current building, which resembles a turreted Norman castle, in 1928, and a new wing was added in 1936. Honors courses were introduced in the 1960s. Teaneck has been a four-year high school since the 1980s.
Principal Joseph White resigned after being arrested following taped discussions in which he engaged in sexual conversations with a high school student. White had been acquitted of molestation charges in 2003 in an incident involving a different youth.^[2] In May 2007, White was offered a plea deal that would have him serve a year in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to third-degree charges of child endangerment and official misconduct.^[3]

Athletics

Teaneck High School is one of twenty public and private high schools from Bergen, Essex and Passaic Counties that are members of the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League.
The boys basketball team won the 2003 Group IV state championship with a 61-54 win over Elizabeth High School in the semis and a 68-56 win over Trenton Central High School in the finals.^[4]

Fall

★ Boys Cross Country

★ Girls Cross Country

★ Football

★ Boys Soccer

★ Girls Soccer

★ Girls Volleyball

Winter

★ Boys Basketball

★ Girls Basketball

★ Boys Swimming

★ Girls Swimming

★ Indoor Track

★ Collegiate wrestling

★ Boys Fencing

★ Girls Fencing

Spring

★ Baseball

★ Tennis

★ Boys Track

★ Girls Track

★ Golf

★ Boys Volleyball

Notable alumni

★ Lance Ball, running back at the University of Maryland, College Park.^[5]

★ Chris Brancato, producer and writer of shows including ''Beverly Hills 90210'', ''The X-Files'' and ''North Shore''. Writer of the films ''Hoodlum'' and ''Species II''

★ Tony Campbell, former professional basketball player.^[6]

★ Gaius Charles, actor, ''Friday Night Lights''.^[7]

★ Shemekia Copeland, blues singer, graduated in 1997.Beckerman, Jim. "WHERE STARS ARE BORN", ''The Record (Bergen County)'', August 19, 2000. Accessed July 3, 2007. "When Shanell Jones graduated from Teaneck High School in June, she already had a deal with Def Jam, a major recording label. But as former Motown Records artist Taral Hicks (Teaneck, Class of 1994) and Alligator recording artist Shemekia Copeland (Teaneck, Class of 1997) could tell her, that's no big deal in this neck of the woods."

★ Dan E. Fesman, television writer and producer of ''Wonderfalls'' and ''LAX''

★ Lawrence Frank, New Jersey Nets head coach.Popper, Steve. " A Coach in Training, Even as a Teenager", ''The New York Times'', January 28, 2004. Accessed May 5, 2007. " Almost 20 years ago, Bruce Frank was the starting point guard for the Teaneck High School team, playing alongside the future N.B.A. player Tony Campbell. Frank was good enough to dream of playing in the N.B.A. himself someday and to earn a place in Howie Garfinkel's Five-Star Basketball Camp. The camp also held interest for Bruce Frank's younger brother, Lawrence, a 16-year-old who had been cut from the same Teaneck High team."

★ Jeff Gottesfeld, author, screenwriter ''Broken Bridges'', and television writer for shows including ''The Young and the Restless'' and ''Smallville''

★ Tamba Hali, All-American Defensive End for Penn State Nittany Lions, 1st round pick in the 2006 NFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs.^[8]

★ Taral Hicks, R&B singer, graduated in 2000.

★ Jaqueline B. Kates, Mayor of Teaneck, 2002—2006

★ Michael Korie (born Michael Korie Indick), librettist and lyricist whose works include ''Grey Gardens''.Rohan, Virgina. "The seeds of 'Grey Gardens' songs", ''The Record (Bergen County)'', June 6, 2007. Accessed June 6, 2007. "Michael Korie, the Tony-nominated "Grey Gardens" lyricist, leads a visitor to a room in the Teaneck home where he grew up... This place, the Indicks' home since 1963, and these parents had a profound influence on Korie (his middle name, which he uses professionally), a successful lyricist who has also done several operas.... By the time Korie got to Teaneck High School -- where he was rehearsal accompanist for shows like "Oklahoma" -- he was going on his own, and with friends, to see New York shows."

★ Phoebe Laub, singer / songwriter known by her stage name 'Phoebe Snow', which was selected from the name of a train that ran through Teaneck, the Phoebe Snow^[9]

★ Damon Lindelof, co-creator, producer and head writer of ''Lost''.^[10]

★ Leonard Maltin, film critic.^[11]

★ Mario, R&B singer

★ Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Chief Justice of the World Court in the Hague

★ Michael Newdow, separation of church and state advocate, filed suit against inclusion of the words "under God" in public schools' recitals of the United States Pledge of Allegiance .^[12]

★ Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.^[13]

★ David Stern, Commissioner of the National Basketball Association.^[14]

★ Paul A. Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman, 1979—1987.^[15]

References

1. "The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools", ''Newsweek'', May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007.
2. Salazar, Carolyn and Aberback, Brian. Principal faces new sex charges, ''The Record (Bergen County)'', June 24, 2006.
3. Markos, Kibret. " Former principal offered plea deal in child endangerment case", ''The Record (Bergen County)'', May 18, 2007. Accessed May 21, 2007.
4. 2003 Boys Basketball - Group IV, Semis/Finals, NJSIAA. Accessed May 26, 2007.
5. Lance Ball profile, University of Maryland Terrapins. Accessed July 6, 2007. "Teaneck High School: A three-year letterwinner and two-year starter ... rushed for 3,403 career yards (on 457 carries) with 39 touchdowns ... ran for 1,473 yards on 240 carries (6.1 avg.) with 18 touchdowns as a senior."
6. "The game I'll never forget: the Timberwolves' first go-to guy had his career day on the expansion franchise's biggest stage yet", ''Basketball Digest'', January 2003. Accessed May 5, 2007. "Campbell hasn't quit his day job: He's the in-school suspension counselor at Teaneck High School, his alma mater."
7. Teaneck actor got in the zone to land 'Friday Night Lights' role, ''The Record (Bergen County)'', November 26, 2006.
8. "Chiefs Select DE Tamba Hali in Round 1", Kansas City Chiefs, April 29, 2006. Accessed July 3, 2007. "Hali was an All-American defensive end at Teaneck High School by G&W and Super Prep."
9. Biographical info for for Phoebe Snow, NNDB, accessed June 30, 2006.
10. Rohan, Virginia. " North Jersey simply not 'Lost'". ''The Record (Bergen County)'', February 5, 2007. "Lindelof got into the production end of television while at Teaneck High School, where he worked on a start-up TV news program."
11. Lumenick, Lou. "LEONARD MALTIN'S REEL-LIFE STORY -- MOVIE MAVEN WENT FROM TEANECK TO HOLLYWOOD", ''The Record (Bergen County)'', October 17, 1994. Accessed May 21, 2007. "Leonard Maltin was a so-so student. 'I was the only student in the history of Teaneck High School to fail a take-home, open-book exam,' he says with a mixture of pride and embarrassment."
12. Kelly, Mike. " One nation under ... ?", ''The Record (Bergen County)'', June 30, 2002. Accessed May 5, 2007. "But Newdow, who reportedly was nicknamed "Noodle" at Teaneck High School, has forced us to take a hard look at the 31-word Pledge of Allegiance that far too many of us recite by rote and without questioning what it says."
13. Teaneck H.S. graduate may head Joint Chiefs, ''The Record (Bergen County)'', April 21, 2005.
14. Sports Historian Relishes Distant Replays, ''FDU Online Magazine'', Spring 2000. Accessed July 6, 2007. "Hired initially as a consultant by NBA commissioner and fellow Teaneck High School graduate David Stern after a chance meeting at a reunion, Himmelman played a major role in the production of the league’s encyclopedia."
15. Treaster, Joseph B. "Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend", Accessed July 6, 2007. "Donald W. Maloney, another Teaneck High School graduate, entered Princeton along with Volcker. Although they had been in the same homeroom at Teaneck High for several years and had been high achievers, they had not been especially close."

External links

★ Teaneck High School

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