Hilltop Star

  The students had hoped to change the string of losses to the teachers, during this year’s annual student/teacher basketball game. (more…)

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Students recently attended a presentation at Passaic County Community College. They were both interested and horrified by the subject matter. The presentation memorialized the horror of the Holocaust, but the images of human scratch marks on the wall of a gas chamber at a Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, human hair matted and turned into […]

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The PHS Marching Band and Color Guard placed third, making the semi-finals, in the Tournament of Bands Chapter 10. The Chapter 10 Tournament of Bands serves northern and central New Jersey as well as southeastern New York including Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Northern Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex & Union Counties. New […]

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The National Honor Society is a national organization of students who have shown outstanding performance in academics as well as individuality in school leadership. The students who are inducted into this prestigious group are expected to show excellence in areas of scholarship, leadership, service and character. These are qualities that are exhibited regularly by many […]

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To highlight the growing need for concern and awareness about autism, the Autism Society has been celebrating National Autism Awareness Month since the 1970s. (more…)

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The PHS Drill team went to Daytona, Florida in May to participate in the 2014 National High School Drill Team Championships.

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The library reconstruction was already behind schedule, but the pipe leak in January totally killed any possibility of the library media center fully opening this school year. Many books were destroyed by the water damage and some of the newly constructed remodeling had to be redone. With this school year winding down and students thinking […]

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The three blood drives, sponsored by Health Occupations, have collected 127 pints of blood. This may not sound like a lot, but each and every pint counts. Every pint will be used to save lives. The blood collected from volunteers at PHS will go to local hospitals to be used for trauma victims, surgeries, and […]

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There are many clubs offered here at PHS, however, one of the best is the Passaic Creations Club. As far as I am concerned it is one of the most amazing activities in this school. We do a lot of fun things throughout the year such as plan, film and edit activities that are happening. […]

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Univision has one of the largest Spanish speaking audiences in the world. There is a big following for this network in Passaic, and on June 3, some students, were invited to visit the Univision studios, headquartered in New York City. Students from the radio and television production classes were happy to be chosen to attend […]

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