| Eastside High School | |
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150 Park Avenue , , 07501 United States | |
| Coordinates | 40°54′54″N 74°09′37″W / 40.915048°N 74.160167°W |
| Information | |
| Type | |
| Established | 1926 |
| School district | Paterson Public Schools |
| NCES School ID | 341269004866[3] |
| Principal | Edgar Nieves [1] (Principal of Operations) Miguel A. Sosa, (School of Government and Public Administration) Pamela Powell, (School of Culinary Arts, Hospitality and Tourism) Dorothy Douge, (School of Information Technology)[2] |
| Faculty | 133.0 FTEs[3] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 2,323 (as of 2022–23)[3] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 17.5:1[3] |
| Color(s) | Navy Blue Orange[4] |
| Athletics conference | Big North Conference (general) North Jersey Super Football Conference (football) |
| Team name | Ghosts[4] |
| Rival | Kennedy High School |
| Website | ehs |
Eastside High School (or EHS) is a four–year public high school located in Paterson section of Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, that serves the eastern section of Paterson. EHS, which serves ninth through twelfth grade students, operates as part of the Paterson Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1928.[5] Eastside High School opened on February 1, 1926.[6]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,323 students and 133.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.5:1. There were 1,188 students (51.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 37 (1.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[3]
The school mascot—the Ghosts—derives from the location of Eastside's football field, where a nineteenth-century cemetery once stood.[7][8][4] A May 1927 article in The Paterson Evening News refers to the Eastside team as the "Galloping Ghosts".[9]
- ^ Kausch, Katie (May 4, 2020). "Paterson principal who was a 'gentle giant' dies at 46". NJ.com. Advance Local Media LLC. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- ^ School List, Paterson Public Schools. Accessed December 9, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e School data for Eastside High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
NJSIAAprofilewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Eastside High School Archived August 14, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed December 9, 2017.
- ^ Office of the Superintendent Archived March 31, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, Paterson Public Schools, March 2010. Accessed January 26, 2021. "This month, I’d like to talk about an exciting highlight in this effort, which is the transformation of Eastside High School. When Eastside opened its doors in 1926, it was considered one of the finest public schools in all of New Jersey."
- ^ Read, Philip M. Paterson, p. 64. Arcadia Publishing, 2003. ISBN 9780738512303. Accessed March 6, 2018. "On land now home to Eastside High School's football team, the Ghosts, once stood a portion of the Sandy Hill Cemeteries dating from 1814."
- ^ Genovese, Peter. "What's in a nickname? Often, a school's history", The Home News, January 5, 1986. Accessed October 18, 2021, via Newspapers.com "'Our school was built on a cemetery,' said a staffer at Eastside High School in Paterson, explaining the school's nickname, the Ghosts. 'We were called the Undertakers before that.'"
- ^ "Rival School Nines Will Clash Saturday Afternoon", The Paterson Evening News, May 31, 1927. Accessed March 23, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The Red and Black has scored thirty-six runs in seven games, while the Eastsiders chalked up forty-two runs in eight games Central's defense yielded only sixteen runs while the 'Galloping Ghosts' were forced to allow seventy-one runs trickle across the home plate."