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International High School is a four-year public high school in Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades operating as part of the Paterson Public Schools. The school is intended to create an educational environment that "respects diversity and celebrates the multicultural atmosphere of Paterson". It offers a curriculum of international and global studies that also address government, business, legal, and law enforcement subjects. It stresses key organizational skills, such as oral speaking and presentations, research, and debate. Students are required to strive to be conversant in a language other than their native language.〔(Mission Statement ), International High School. Accessed May 15, 2013.〕 As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 520 students and 55.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.5:1. There were 447 students (86.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 26 (5.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for International High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed October 30, 2015.〕 The school district hired a private investigator to look into the reasons behind the significant percentage of students in the district who opted out of mandated PARCC testing in the 2014-15 school year, including 30% at the co-located International High School and Garret Morgan Academy.〔Malinconico, Joe. ("Paterson district uses private investigator to question school board member about PARCC tests" ), ''The Record (Bergen County)'', June 11, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2015. "In that lawsuit, International Principal Robina Puryear-Castro, Vice Principal Amod Field and Garret Morgan Principal Stanley Sumter say an outside third party investigator conducted one-on-one interrogations of each of them about the PARCC tests. The administrators said the investigator wanted to know why about 30 percent of the students at the two schools, which share a building on Grand Street, opted out of the test."〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== The school was the 272nd-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 238th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 228th out of 322 schools in its 2010 magazine story. ''New Jersey Monthly'' developed the 2012 rankings based on data from New Jersey School Report Card for 2010-2011 school year from New Jersey Department of Education.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed August 27, 2012.〕〔Schlager, Ken; and Staab, Amanda. ("Education 2012: Top New Jersey High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 13, 2012. Accessed May 15, 2013.〕 Schooldigger.com ranked the school 243rd out of 389 public high schools statewide in its 2011-2012 school year rankings, which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). This was a significant improvement from 2009-2010 when it was ranked 354th out of 376 public high schools.〔(International High (See Rankings) ), Schooldigger.com. Accessed May 15, 2013.〕 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「International High School (New Jersey)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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