Irvington High School (New Jersey)


Irvington High School: Frank H. Morrell Campus is a four-year comprehensive community public high school in Irvington, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades, as the lone secondary school of the Irvington Public Schools. IHS has three main floors and a basement, with each floor holding up to 23 classrooms. A west wing of the building was erected in the 1970s. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools.
As of the 2017-18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,363 students and 107.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1. There were 992 students eligible for free lunch and 58 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 331st-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. The school had been ranked 309th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 287th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 307th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was bottom-ranked, 316th, in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Extracurricular programs

Irvington High School's Crusader Battalion is the oldest Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program in the state of New Jersey. Approximately 200 students participate in the program, of whom one third will continue on to enlist in the military, while the remaining two-thirds will move on to college or a job after graduation.

Athletics

The Irvington High School Blue Knights compete in the Super Essex Conference, which consists of public and private high schools in Essex County and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 1,062 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015–16 school year as North II, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 778 to 1,062 students in that grade range. Prior to the 2010 reorganization, the school had competed in the Watchung Conference, which consisted of public and private high schools in Essex County, Hudson County and Union County in northern New Jersey.
The girls' basketball team won the Group IV state championship in 1985 and 1986 ; the boys' team won the Group IV title.
The boys' track team won the Group III indoor relay state championship in 2009 and the girls' track team won the Group III title in 2012.
The boys basketball team won the 1992 North II Group IV Sectional Championship, and the 1993 Group IV State Championship.

Notable alumni