Rising Star Academy

Rising Star Academy
Location
4613 Cottage Place

Union City
,
Hudson County
,
New Jersey
07087

United States

40°46′52″N 74°01′24″W / 40.78119°N 74.02330°W / 40.78119; -74.02330
Information
TypePrivate
MottoKnowledge-Leadership-Faith
Established2009
NCES School ID
A1101531[1]
Principal
Hala Shehadeh[2]
Faculty29.9 FTEs[1]
GradesPreK-12
Enrollment216 (plus 21 in PreK, as of 2019–20)[1]
Student to teacher ratio
7.2:1[1]
Websitewww.rsanj.org

Rising Star Academy is a private Islamic day school for students in pre-K through twelfth grades, located in Union City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, established in 2009.[3]

As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 216 students (plus 21 in PreK) and 29.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.2:1. The school's student body was 55.6% (120) Black, 41.2% (89) White and 3.2% (7) Hispanic.[1]

History

Rising Star Academy opened in September 2009 by the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center, a Sunni Muslim mosque established in 1992 in Union City. The mosque's 2,000-member congregation includes approximately 500 Latino converts from other religions, such as Catholicism.[3]

The school received accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools in May 2016 and is accredited until July 2024.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 School data for Rising Star Academy, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 10, 2022.
  2. ↑ "RISING STAR ACADEMY". Archived from the original on May 7, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Cusido, Carmen. "Embracing Islam", New Jersey Monthly, February 8, 2010.
  4. ↑ Rising Star Academy Archived December 19, 2024, at the Wayback Machine, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed December 30, 2022.
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