Union City High School is a three-year public high school in Union City, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Union City Board of Education. 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. Through its predecessors, the school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.
The school's inaugural principal was David Wilcomes. As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,428 students and 143.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.93:1. There were 1,974 students (81.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 195 (8.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school opened in September 2009, merging the city's prior 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, which was built on the site of the former Roosevelt Stadium, cost $180 million, covers 4½ acres and includes a rooftop football field. The school's colors are navy blue and silver. Its opening ceremony was attended by Union City Mayor Brian P. Stack, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine.
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