In addition to Liberal Arts courses, students can take advanced placement biology, chemistry, physics, anatomy & physiology, forensic science, robotics, geometry, algebra 2, and calculus at the AEA. Since its inaugural school year, Union City High School has offered college-level courses to students, and through its partnerships with nearby colleges and universities, increased the number of such courses for the 2010–2011 school year, enabling students to accumulate up to 12 - 15 college credits by graduation that can be transferred to New Jersey public colleges. The AEA provides classes for students of grades 9 - 12 who show interest in the fields of science and engineering, and served as an alternative to José Martí Freshman Academy, which most ninth graders attended at the time. The Academy for Enrichment and Advancement (AEA), which is housed one block south on Kerrigan Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets, is a special interest academy that is part of the high school. Union City High School holds Freshman through Senior students. The Academy for Enrichment and Advancement The school's colors are navy blue and silver. The school, which was built on the site of the former Roosevelt Stadium, cost $180 million, covers 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) and includes a rooftop football field. Its current building opened in September 2009, at that time merging the student bodies of the city's prior two high schools, Union Hill High School and Emerson High School, and marking the first high school opened in the city in 90 years. The school administratively formed in 2008, with athletic teams combined, but for the first year the students were still at their former buildings.
Īs of the 2020–21 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,884 students and 179.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.1:1. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. The four-story school is located between Kennedy Boulevard and Summit Avenue, from 24th to 26th Street, with additional facilities a block south on Kerrigan Avenue.
Union City High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Union City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Union City Board of Education. Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
North Jersey Super Football Conference (football) Hudson County Interscholastic League (general)
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