Barringer High School Explained

Barringer Academy of the Arts & Humanities
Address:90 Parker Street
City:Newark
County:Essex County
State:New Jersey
District:Newark Public Schools
Zipcode:07104
Country:United States
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Principal:Natasha Pared
Grades:9-12
Type:Public high school
Enrollment:1,734 (as of 2022–23)
Faculty:113.5 FTEs
Ratio:15.3:1
Us Nces School Id:341134002190
Language:English
Area:Urban
Conference:Super Essex Conference (general)
North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)
Teamname:Blue Bears
Colors: Royal Blue and
white
Rival:East Orange Campus High School

Barringer Academy of the Arts & Humanities (formerly Barringer High School and Newark High School), is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Newark, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools. Some consider it to be the third oldest public high school in the United States. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1981.[1]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,734 students and 113.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.3:1. There were 1,142 students (65.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 108 (6.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 327th-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.[3] The school had been ranked 313th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 311th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[4] The magazine ranked the school 306th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[5] The school was ranked 303rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[6]

History

In 1838, Nathan Hedges opened a high school in a building on Bank Street. On January 7, 1853, a three-story building was opened at the corner of Washington and Linden and had an enrollment of 498 boys and girls.[7] [8]

In 1875, Dr. William N. Barringer was hired to succeed George B. Sears as superintendent of schools. Dr. Barringer oversaw the construction of a second high school building at a cost of $300,000, which is the site of the current faculty parking lot. Construction started in 1878 and was completed in 1899. In 1907, the name of Newark High School was officially changed to Barringer, in honor of Dr. Barringer.[8]

Athletics

The Barringer High School Blue Bears[9] compete in the Super Essex Conference, which comprises public and private high schools in Essex County and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.[10] With 1,115 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,060 to 5,049 students in that grade range.[11] Until the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in Division B of the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League, which included high schools located in Bergen, Essex and Passaic counties, and was separated into three divisions based on NJSIAA size classification.[12] The football team competes in the Liberty White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league.[13] [14] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV North for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 895 to 1,296 students.[15]

The school's football rivalry with East Orange Campus High School, which dates back to a Thanksgiving Day game played in 1897, was listed at 7th on NJ.com's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football".[16] East Orange leads the rivalry with a 63-39-9 overall record as of 2023.[17]

In 1918, during future major league baseball player Moe Berg's senior season, the Newark Star-Eagle selected a nine-man "dream team" from the city's best prep and public high school baseball players, and Berg was named the team's third baseman.

The boys track team won the indoor track public school state championship in 1930, 1934 and 1939.[18]

The boys track team won the spring / outdoor track state championship in Group IV in 1933 and 1934.[19]

The boys fencing team was the overall state co-champion in 1969 with Essex Catholic High School after both teams had overall records of 45–9 in competition; Barringer won the team foil competition.[20] [21]

The 1975 football team finished the season with a 9–1–1 record after winning the North II Group IV state sectional title with a 14–13 victory against Livingston High School in the championship game played in front of a crowd of 7,500.[22] [23]

The 1980 boys basketball team finished the season with a 26–4 record after winning the Group IV state championship, defeating Trenton Central High School by a score of 68–56 in the tournament final.[24] [25]

Administration

As of September 2023, the school's principal is Natasha Pared.[26] Her core administrative team includes five vice principals along with department chairpersons assisting in administrative roles as well.[27]

Notable alumni

Arts and literature

Sports

Government

Other

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.css-msa.org/search.php?MODE=VIEW%28NJ013%29&org=CSS Barringer High School
  2. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3411340&ID=341134002190 School data for Barringer High School
  3. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  4. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 1, 2012.
  5. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 12, 2011.
  6. http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/highschoolrankings/top-new-jersey-high-schools-by-rank.html "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank"
  7. https://www.nps.k12.nj.us/barringer/our-school/our-history/ Our History
  8. http://barringeralumni.org/history.html History of Barringer High School
  9. https://www.njsiaa.org/schools/barringer-high-school Barringer High School
  10. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-10/2020-2021-lc-officers-schools.pdf League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021
  11. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/general-classifications-2018-2020.pdf NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020
  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20090509221527/http://www.nnjil.com/ Home Page
  13. Cooper, Darren. "Here's what we know about the new Super Football Conference 2020 schedule", The Record, July 23, 2020. Accessed March 22, 2021. "The Super Football Conference (SFC) is a 112-team group, the largest high school football-only conference in America, and is comprised of teams from five different counties."
  14. Cooper, Darren. "NJ football: Super Football Conference revised schedules for 2020 regular season", The Record, July 23, 2020. Accessed March 22, 2021. "The Super Football Conference has 112 teams that will play across 20 divisions. This is the first year of the Ivy Division, created for struggling programs that would be ineligible for the state playoffs."
  15. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2022-08/Football%20%2722%20%26%20%2723.pdf NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2022–2024
  16. Stypulkoski, Matt. "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 27, 2017, updated May 15, 2019. Accessed December 1, 2020. "7-Barringer vs. East Orange: This year marks the 120th anniversary of the inaugural Thanksgiving game and the 105th meeting overall between these two Essex County schools. While the streak of consecutive holiday games was broken in 1986 due to a conference scheduling conflict, it was resumed again in 1988.... All-time series: East Orange leads, 57-39-9"
  17. Ojutiku, Mak. "Fisher scores 4 TDs as East Orange blanks Barringer in Thanksgiving football rivalry", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 23, 2023. Accessed November 30, 2023. "Kyree Fisher scored four touchdowns to lead East Orange to a 38-0 Thanksgiving Day rivalry game win over Barringer, in Newark. The rivalry, which once held the title of being the longest unbroken rivalry series in the country, dates back to 1897 and is the fifth-oldest of the holiday series still being played in New Jersey. East Orange’s win increased its series lead to 63-39-9."
  18. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2024-01/Boys%20Indoor%20Track%20%26%20Field_0.pdf Boys Winter Track and Field Championship History: 1922-2023
  19. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-08/21-history.pdf NJSIAA Spring Track Summary of Group Titles Boys
  20. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/20-boys-fencing.pdf NJSIAA History of Boys Fencing Championships
  21. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/530677105/ "Indian Hills' Pete Gaylor Takes State Foil Laurels"
  22. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/21-football.pdf NJSIAA Football History
  23. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/07/archives/livingston-bows-to-barringer.html "Livingston Bows to Barringer"
  24. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/2020-basketball-history_0.pdf History of NJSIAA Boys Basketball Championship History
  25. Bauman, Greg. "Barringer takes it to Camden, 68-56", Herald News, March 23, 1980. Accessed February 22, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "When Lenny Carmichael succeeded Fran Pinchot as Trenton High School's basketball coach three years ago, he vowed to turn the Tornadoes sagging program around.... Trenton (24-4) reached the New Jersey State Group 4 finals for the first time in 19 years Saturday night, making good on Carmichael's promise.... Barringer (26-4), behind a devastating fourth-quarter comeback, defeated a shocked Tornadoe club, 68-56, in winning the states Group 4 title."
  26. https://www.nps.k12.nj.us/barringer/administrative-team/principals-message/ Principal's Message
  27. https://www.nps.k12.nj.us/barringer/administrative-team/vice-principals/ Vice Principals
  28. http://www.nathanielturner.com/barakavnewjersey.htm Message from Amiri Baraka, New Jersey and Newark Schools' Poet Laureate
  29. Klacsmann, Karen Towers. "Hilda Belcher (1881-1963)", New Georgia Encyclopedia. Accessed October 21, 2015. "Upon graduating from Newark High School (later Barringer High School) in 1900, Belcher moved to New York City to further her education."
  30. Imholtz Jr., August A. "Albert Boni: A Sketch of a Life in Micro-Opaque", American Antiquarian Society, 2006. Accessed October 21, 2015. "There in Newark he attended Barringer High School and, at the age of sixteen, became the youngest secretary of the local chapter of the Socialist Party."
  31. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102768581/ron-carey-interview/ "Across the Boards with Rodi"
  32. Bodian, Nat. Ted Fiorito: The Newark Son of Italian Immigrants who Became One of Greats of American Music . Virtual Newark. Accessed October 21, 2015. "By the time Ted had reached high school age in 1914, the family was living at 185 Bruce Street, and his ASCAP bio shows that he was 'educated at Barringer High School'."
  33. Slonimsky, Nicholas and Laura Kuhn (ed). Kern, Jerome (David)". Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Volume 3 (Schirmer Reference, New York, 2001), accessed May 10, 2010 (requires subscription)
  34. https://books.google.com/books?id=L2okAQAAIAAJ&q=william+j.+maguire+clark+mayor+freeholder Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 1981
  35. Freeman, William M. "Andrew E. Svenson, 65, a Writer of 'Bobbseys' and 'Hardys,' Dies", The New York Times, August 23, 1975. Accessed February 6, 2022. "He was a graduate of Barringer High School in Newark and studied at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a B. A. in creative writing."
  36. Cupper, Dan; Teller, Grif. Crossroads of Commerce: The Pennsylvania Railroad Calendar Art of Grif Teller, p. 27. Stackpole Books, 2003. . Accessed February 6, 2022. "He left Barringer High School in his junior year to attend the Fawcett School of Industrial Art on Academy Street in Newark."
  37. Acocella, Nick "Moe Berg: Catcher and spy", ESPN.com, July 29, 2004. Accessed November 15, 2016. "Morris Berg was born in a cold-water tenement on East 121st Street in Manhattan on March 2, 1902, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents – Bernard, a druggist, and Rose.... He later starred at Barringer High School."
  38. Araton, Harvey. "A Fearless Prediction by Yanks' Cano", The New York Times, October 9, 2010. Accessed October 21, 2015. "Cano finished eighth grade and enrolled at Barringer High School, but he failed to make it through his freshman year or to play an inning of high school baseball in New Jersey."
  39. http://www.bop.state.ia.us/Document/1001 Iowa Board of Parole Annual Report Fiscal Year 2014
  40. Lamb, Bill. Rupert Mills, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed February 6, 2022. "Large for his age and athletically gifted, young Rupe Mills began attracting attention while still in grammar school. By the time he graduated from Newark’s Barringer High School, Mills was a locally famous four-sport star and the New Jersey high-jump champion."
  41. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=puma--001lou Lou Puma
  42. [Frank Litsky|Litsky, Frank]
  43. Bergeron, Tom. "Andre Tippett's journey to Pro Football Hall of Fame began in Newark", NJ.com, August 2, 2008. Accessed October 21, 2015. "Frank Verducci first laid eyes on Andre Tippett during the summer of 1974, when Tippett and his mother dropped by Newark's Barringer High School to file paperwork for him to transfer into the school."
  44. https://books.google.com/books?id=JjBSAQAAMAAJ&q=Leroy+baxter+June+13th,+1881 Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 152
  45. https://www.brennancenter.org/justice-brennan-memorials "Resolution Adopted by the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States to Record Our Deep Respect and Affection for Justice William J. Brennan Jr."
  46. https://books.google.com/books?id=m5xDAQAAIAAJ&q=ralph+caputo+October+31,+1940+%22high+school%22 Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 2010
  47. Schwaneberg, Robert. "Education building honors a champion: Rights lawyer Carter argued Brown case", copy of article from The Star-Ledger, November 21, 2006, at the Warren County Education Association. Accessed March 5, 2012. "Born in Florida, Carter was 6 weeks old when his family moved to Newark. He attended Barringer High School in Newark and East Orange High School, graduating at age 16 after skipping two grades."
  48. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/544070408/ "Addonizio"
  49. https://books.google.com/books?id=Fk3jhectAuYC&q=newark+%22Michael+A.+Giuliano%22+Barringer Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey
  50. https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/18/archives/sketches-of-others-indicted-in-newark.html "Sketches of Others Indicted in Newark"
  51. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000149 Donald Milford Payne Jr.
  52. Sherman, Ted. for The Star-Ledger. "New mayor strictly 'old-school' states lend First Latino leader of Newark says he shuns social media", The Record, November 5, 2013. Accessed February 6, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "'I don't have a computer,' said Newark Mayor Luis Quintana, who was sworn in Monday to take the reins of the state's largest city.... He moved to Newark with his family at age 8, graduating from Barringer High School in the city's North Ward."
  53. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000374 Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.
  54. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/182728736/ "Racing Toward Morven: Republican Candidate Robert Sarcone"
  55. Wren Jr., George J. "Of Competence and Character: A New Jersey Story Passed on from Father to Son", New Jersey State Police Former Troopers Association. Accessed August 10, 2014. "After graduating from Barringer High School in Newark, Herbert was granted a Congressional appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point from the Honorable Walter I. McCoy, Judge of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C."
  56. https://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/sca/FAs/VA1000-186.xml Register of the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Political, Professional, and Judicial Papers, 1902 - 1957
  57. Staff. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 202, Part 2, p. 251. E. J. Mullin, 1987. Accessed September 1, 2016.
  58. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z28LAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA370&dq=%22John+Beam+Vreeland%22+newark+%22high+school%22 Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 1912
  59. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000089 George Marvin Wallhauser
  60. Local Talk News Editor "Stephen N. Adubato to be awarded honorary degree from Kean University", LocalTalkNews.com, May 7, 2010. Accessed May 17, 2010.
  61. Shearn, Ian T. "Scrapbook of Extremes A refugee from the Liberian civil war, MacDella Cooper became a fashion professional and started a foundation to aid Liberian orphans. Now her life of ups and downs has taken another unusual turn.", New Jersey Monthly, June 8, 2009. Accessed July 25, 2019. "The teens moved in with their mother in the Garden Spires housing project in Newark, where drugs and violence were rampant. Cooper entered Barringer High School, where during her first week, a student was shot in the hallway."
  62. http://nap.rutgers.edu/collection.php?id=2291&type=coll&s=0&search=marcus&stype= August Meier Papers - Part 1 (1930 - 1998)
  63. https://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/5749 Arthur A. Schmon fonds RG 524
  64. Govan, Jennifer. "Today in History: Celebrating Marion Thompson Wright", Gottesman Libraries, September 12, 2019. Accessed February 6, 2022. "On September 12th, 1902 Marion Manola Thompson Wright was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to Minnie and Moses Thompson -- the youngest of four children. She was just one of two black students at Barringer High School in Newark, New Jersey where she dropped out due to pregnancy."

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