Hoboken Charter School

Posted June 25, 2009

Discipline and fictitious security issues have become a distraction and produced some bad publicity- largely false and poorly reported in the local press. The core academics of the school from K - 8 are very high quality and the teachers are truly outstanding in amost every case. The student body is very diverse and range from very low-income, low motivated and poorly prepared kids to very high achieving, college bound, driven young people. I like this aspect of the school because it mirrors the real world. Administration and governance need work. The current principal is leaving and we all hope the Board of Trustees will hire someone really top notch to strengthen the middle school program. The Board of Trustees appear to be mostly ceremonial appointments so I am not sure who is setting curriculum and management policy for the school. HS should be jettisoned.
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Posted April 18, 2009

An excellent school who strives to do their best. The provide children with a service learning based program. K-8th strives to give their best and the high school also does their best. I do agree that the high is small and for student seeking more variety well they could always transfer but the high school does a great job in giving a surpass education to students.
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Posted February 27, 2009

I am a high school student at Hoboken Charter high school and to be honest its ok. To me it's not the best highscool and you hear a lot of students saying that. Next I can only talk about the high school I find Hoboken Charter High school needs more programs and let the students decide what subjects they would like to take. Everyone wants to do something different for their future , and we're not expose to alot of things. Since it is a small school, its hard and they have their own ways of doing things which is good and bad. Instead of having french as an elective we should be able to choose what language we would like to take. I feel if we have after school programs and a better school schedule you can attract alot more people.
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Posted November 12, 2008

This is a wonderful school. All staff does their best to make sure student succeed. You will never fully give everyone what they want but as someone who sees all the hard work...it is a beautiful school.

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