Roselle Catholic High School
high school in New Jersey, United States
Roselle Catholic High School is a coeducational, Roman Catholic high school, located on a 15-acre (6.1 ha) campus in Roselle, in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The school, established in 1959, operates under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark and the Marist Brothers. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools through July 2027.
As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 354 students and 28 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.6:1. The school's student body was 34.7% (123) Black, 24.9% (88) White, 17.8% (63) Hispanic, 12.7% (45) Asian and 9.9% (35) two or more races.
Morses Creek flows through the campus.
Athletics
The Roselle Catholic High School Lions compete in the Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which includes public and private high schools in Union County and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) and was established as part of a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey. Prior to the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in the Mountain Valley Conference, which included public and private high schools in Essex County, Somerset County and Union County. With 255 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Non-Public B for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 37 to 366 students in that grade range (equivalent to Group II for public schools).
The boys track team won the indoor track Non-Public state championship in 1965, 1967 and 1969, and won the Non-Public B title in 2011.
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