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Emerson Junior-Senior High School is a six-year public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Emerson, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Emerson School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1968.〔(Emerson Junior - Senior High School ), Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. Accessed August 21, 2011.〕 The school was constructed at a cost of $2.3 million, opening to students in January 1963 after a tornado the previous August caused over $70,000 in damage and prevented the school from opening in September as originally planned.〔Slocum, John W. ("NEW JERSEY; Bergen" ), ''The New York Times'', September 3, 1962. Accessed May 22, 2012.〕 As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 566 students and 48.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.57:1. There were 27 students (4.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 14 (2.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Emerson Jr Sr High ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 14, 2015.〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== The school was the 85th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in ''New Jersey Monthly'' magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.〔Staff. ("Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.〕 The school had been ranked 77th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 34th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed December 1, 2012.〕 The magazine ranked the school 55th in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed June 13, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 51st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.〔("Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.〕 Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 99th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 8 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.7%) and language arts literacy (97.6%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).〔(New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011 ), Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 3, 2012.〕 EHS also has an award-winning journalism program, having won several prestigious awards for its Adopt-A-Journalist Program under the guidance of Ava Annese and ''The Record''. Recent adopted journalists include Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer Thomas E. Franklin, ESPN-online writer Bob Klapisch, and stand-up comic and ''The Record'' columnist Bill Ervolino. Awards received for the program include: *1999 NJ Best Practices.〔(1998-99 Best Practices Award for Emerson Junior-Senior High School ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 15, 2007.〕 *2000 A+ for Kids Network Grant *2002 Newspaper Association of America Innovators in Newspaper Education Award In 2003, Ava Annese received the New Jersey High School Teacher of Civics Education award from the VFW. In the national contest, she received third place.〔(Ms. Ava Annese-Media profile ), Emerson Public School. Accessed November 1, 2007.〕 Emerson's Musical Theatre program has been lauded for the quality of its productions, most notably by The Metros, Papermill Playhouse and the New Jersey Metropolitan chapter of The Cappies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emerson Jr./Sr. High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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