Fort Lee High School

Fort Lee High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade, located in Fort Lee, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Fort Lee School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1931.[3]

Fort Lee High School
Address
3000 Lemoine Avenue

Fort Lee
,
Bergen County
,
New Jersey
07024

United States
Coordinates40°51′30″N 73°57′56″W
Information
TypePublic high school
Established1916
NCES School ID3405310[1]
PrincipalLauren Glynn
Faculty76.6 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,012 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio13.2:1[1]
Color(s)  Orange and
  Black[2]
Athletics conferenceBig North Conference
Team nameBridgemen[2]
NewspaperFort Lee-Der
Websiteflhs.flboe.com

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,012 students and 76.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 141 students (13.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 61 (6.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

History

Fort Lee High School was established in 1916. It was relocated to its current location in 1928. A new wing was added in 1964. New classrooms were constructed in 1968. The school was completely renovated in the 1980s.[4]

2009 transcript scandal

On March 3, 2009, a scandal concerning the transcript records of the students was alleged. The transcripts of students from 2003 to the current senior class were reported by Raymond Bandlow, the superintendent of schools, to have been tampered with. The Fort Lee Board of Education began its investigation of the scandal on March 4, 2009, and attempted to ascertain as to who exactly was involved after it was reported that in some instances, grades were changed, and in others low grades were deleted. Students of the class of 2009 expressed their discontent and anger regarding the scandal, as these allegations could jeopardize their chances of being admitted to colleges.[5]

Awards, recognition and rankings

In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 52nd in New Jersey and 1,611th nationwide.[6] In 2006, the school was ranked 217th out of the top 1000 High Schools in the United States by Newsweek magazine.[7]

The school was the 81st-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.[8] The school had been ranked 97th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 72nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[9] The magazine ranked the school 75th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[10] The school was ranked 99th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.[11]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 137th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 1 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.6%) and language arts literacy (93.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[12]

Fort Lee High School was ranked 55th out of 426 schools in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report on its 2018 listing of "Best High Schools".[13] It was in the 89th percentile in the New Jersey Department of Education ranking.

Athletics

The Fort Lee High School Bridgemen[2] compete in the Big North Conference which includes schools in Northern New Jersey and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[14] With 681 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range.[15] Prior to the 2010 realignment, the team participated in the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) American Conference, made up of private and public high schools located in Bergen County and Hudson County.[16] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II North for football for 2018–2020.[17]

The boys' basketball team won the Group I state championship in 1947 (defeating Dunellen High School in the tournament final) and 1949 (vs. Wildwood High School).[18]

The boys track team won the Group II spring track state championship in 1963.[19]

The wrestling team won the North I Group II state sectional title in 1980.[20]

The girls volleyball team won the Group II state championship in 1988, defeating Garfield High School in the final match of the playoff tournament.[21]

In 2011, Nancie Sophias broke the school record for the 800m that had been set in 1977 and became the high school's first woman to qualify for the NJSIAA State Track Meet of Champions in the event.[22]

The varsity boys tennis team was top-seeded in the North II, Group II state sectional tournament, but lost in the semifinals 3–2 to James Caldwell High School.[23]

Clubs

Clubs at the school include art, theatre, the school chorus, the debating society and the school newspaper.[24] The Fort Lee High School Band was the Tournament of Bands Atlantic Coast Invitational Class A winners in Group 4 in 2019.[25]

Administration

The school's principal is Lauren Glynn. Her administration team includes two assistant principals.[26]

Notable faculty
  • Joan Voss (born 1940), politician, was on the school's faculty from 1963 until she retired in 2001.[27]

Notable alumni

References
  1. School data for Fort Lee High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Fort Lee High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. Fort Lee High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed June 13, 2011.
  4. School History, Fort Lee High School. Accessed June 13, 2011.
  5. Pegues, Jeff. "Grade scandal at Fort Lee High", WABC-TV, March 5, 2009. Accessed June 13, 2011.
  6. Mathews, Jay. "The High School Challenge 2011: Fort Lee High School", The Washington Post. Accessed August 21, 2011.
  7. The Complete List of the 1,000 Top U.S. Schools Archived March 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Newsweek. Accessed December 13, 2006.
  8. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  9. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 1, 2012.
  10. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 13, 2011.
  11. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  12. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 5, 2012.
  13. "2018 Best High Schools: Fort Lee High School", U.S. News & World Report.
  14. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  15. NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  16. New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association League Memberships – 2009-2010, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, backed up by the Internet Archive as of July 24, 2011. Accessed October 7, 2014.
  17. NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2018–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, finalized August 2019. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  18. Past State Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  19. NJSIAA Spring Track Summary of Group Titles Boys, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  20. NJSIAA Wrestling Team Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  21. NJSIAA Girls Volleyball Group Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  22. Murray, Chris. "Fort Lee Senior Track Star Makes History: Nancie Sophias Keeps on breaking her own records and will be doing something that no other female from Fort Lee High School has ever done.", FortLeePatch, June 6, 2011. Accessed July 16, 2011. "Sophias, a senior, qualified to run in the NJSIAA State Track Meet of Champions in the 800 meter race on Thursday in Old Bridge at Carl Sandburg Middle School. With Sophias' qualification she became the first female runner in the history of Fort Lee High School to run in this major and prestigious event."
  23. Boys Tennis - 2011 NJSIAA Tournament - North 2, Group 2, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 16, 2011.
  24. Fort Lee High School 2018-2019 Agenda
  25. Atlantic Coast Champions by Year, Tournament of Bands. Accessed October 12, 2020.
  26. Contact, Fort Lee High School. Accessed October 12, 2020.
  27. Fasbach, Laura. "Voss ends juggling, resigns council seat", The Record, April 18, 2004. Accessed October 24, 2008.
  28. Davidson, Eric. "Q&A: Rock ‘N’ Roll High School Director Allan Arkush Looks Back (Plus Exclusive Photos)", The Village Voice, May 18, 2011. Accessed June 26, 2019. "But a lot of the outrageous stuff in Rock 'N' Roll High School was stuff that happened to me personally in high school. Like the freshman being shoved in the locker. That happened to me all the time at Fort Lee High School, in New Jersey."
  29. Cooper, Diana. "LOL!: Jonathan Cheban's High School Pictures Revealed—We Wonder if He Would Have Been Kim Kardashian's BFF Back Then!", In Touch Weekly, August 9, 2014. Accessed September 9, 2017. "For one, Jonathan Cheban, who's famous for being Kim Kardashian's BFF, looks completely different! Photos of him, exclusively obtained by Daily Mail, show what he looked like during his years at Fort Lee High School in New Jersey, where he graduated in 1991."
  30. Hancock, Noelle. "The Art of the Schmooze", New York Observer, January 18, 2013. Accessed October 16, 2020. "Once upon a time, Mr. Cheban did wait in line at places like Limelight and Club USA. It was the late 80’s, and the Fort Lee High School student was the only child of a real-estate agent (his mother) and a diamond dealer (his father)."
  31. Kemp, Joseph. "Real Estate Mahoffs: A Developing Story", Jewish Exponent, March 24, 2015. Accessed September 9, 2017. "Domb, 59, grew up in Fort Lee, N.J., across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan.... After graduating from Fort Lee High School, he attended American University in Washington, D.C., where he took evening classes while working full-time during the day selling security systems at Phelps Time Lock Service, based in Hyattsville, Md."
  32. Reich, Ronni. "New York Musical Theatre Festival: Three Jersey artists offer something different", The Star-Ledger, July 7, 2013. Accessed August 29, 2018. "Randy Klein, who grew up in Union City and Fort Lee, appeared at the festival last year with Flambé Dreams, a kitchen comedy.... Klein honed his musicianship in the Fort Lee High School marching band and got a taste for theater from Broadway shows he would see with his mother, including Fiddler on the Roof with Zero Mostel and Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing."
  33. Teicholz, Tom. "Tommywood - Sayings of Chairman Levine", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, February 16, 2006, backed up by the Internet Archive as of June 14, 2013. Accessed June 16, 2020. "Born in New York City, Levine graduated from Fort Lee High in 1972, and attended Rutgers College for six months."
  34. Caldera, Pete. "Where are they now? Former Fort Lee/Princeton basketball star Ted Manakas ", The Record at Newslookup. Accessed September 9, 2017. "As a "pretty accurate deep-range shooter," Manakas averaged 27 points per game in his senior year for a 19-4 Fort Lee team that won the Bergen County Scholastic League American Division."
  35. Skelton, David E. "John Orsino: A Profile", The Pecan Park Eagle, September 13, 2017. Accessed September 15, 2018. "Orsino attended Fort Lee (New Jersey) High School."
  36. John Orsino, Baseball Almanac. Accessed September 15, 2018.
  37. Sarnoff, David. "A Conversation with Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich". Fort Lee Patch. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  38. Coutros, Evonne. "Fort Lee natives up for documentary Oscar Sunday for Undefeated", The Record, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 24, 2012. Accessed September 9, 2017. "English may have been Glen Zipper's favorite subject at Fort Lee High School, but it could be a football documentary that earns the 39-year-old retired attorney an Academy Award."
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