Nutley High School


Nutley High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Township of Nutley, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Nutley Public Schools. The school's colors are maroon and gray. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928. All students pursue an appropriate academic program to prepare for post-secondary education or for employment.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,223 students and 93.9 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1. There were 90 students eligible for free lunch and 54 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 130th-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 140th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 160th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 141st in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 129th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Graduation requirements

Students must pass the New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment and earn a minimum of 120 credits in English, mathematics, science, social studies, world languages, physical/health education, visual/performing/practical arts, computer applications, and electives.

Athletics

The Nutley High School Raiders compete in the Super Essex Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 935 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. The school had previously participated in the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League.
School colors are maroon and gray. Interscholastic sports offered include crew, golf, track and field spring, soccer, cross country, bowling, softball, basketball, tennis, football, track and field winter, wrestling, baseball, volleyball, ice hockey, cross country crew and lacrosse.
The school operates as the host school / lead agency for a joint ice hockey program with Columbia High School, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2018-19 school year.
The girls' basketball team won the Group III state championship in 1977, defeating Willingboro High School in the tournament final.
The football team won the North II, Group III state sectional championships in 1992.
The baseball team won the 2001 North II, Group III sectionals, defeating Cranford High School by a score of 5-3 in the final. The 2004 team won the North I, Group III title, edging Paramus High School 4-3.

Administration

The school's principal is Denis Williams.

Notable appearances

lead singer Steven Tyler performed on stage at the Nutley prom in June 1966 as part of a predecessor group called "The Strangeurs".
In 2004, Nutley High School's football team and other student organizations were featured on MTV's Total Request Live, when high school student Corey Smith directed the short three-minute film Making the Grade, starring Hugh Jackman as a high school math teacher.

Notable alumni