Al-Ghazaly High School

Al-Ghazaly Junior/Senior High School
Address
970 Black Oak Ridge Road Wayne , (Passaic County) , NJ 07471 United States
Coordinates	40°58′24″N 74°16′21″W / 40.973197°N 74.272435°W / 40.973197; -74.272435
Information
Type	Private, Coeducational
Motto	Never Give Up
Religious affiliation(s)	Muslim religion
Established	1984
Oversight	Islamic Education Fund of New Jersey
School code	310594
NCES School ID	A0502296[1]
Principal	No principal
Faculty	38.8 FTEs[1]
Grades	7–12
Enrollment	353 (as of 2021–22)[1]
Average class size	30
Student to teacher ratio	9.1:1[1]
Classes offered	AP Biology, AP Physics B, AP Calculus (AB and BC), AP Chemistry, AP English Literature, AP World History, AP US History, AP Environmental Science
Team name	Warriors
Newspaper	SNAP
School fees	$350 Book fees
Tuition	$15.5k each
Website	www.iefschools.org/al-ghazaly

Al-Ghazaly High School in Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, is one of the oldest Islamic high schools in the United States. The school was founded in 1984, and serves students in seventh through twelfth grades. There is no principal at the moment. Most students at Al-Ghazaly High School come from Al-Ghazaly and Al Hikmah Elementary School, located at Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City and North 8th Street in Prospect Park, respectively.

As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 353 students and 38.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.1:1. The school's student body was 56.7% (200) White, 28.3% (100) Asian, 10.2% (36) two or more races, 2.8% (10) Hispanic and 2% (7) Black.^[1]

Al-Ghazaly's dress code has remained the same for many years to in order to show equality between students. Boys wear navy blue pants and white polo shirts while girls wear long navy blue Islamic dresses often referred to as "abaya" and red/maroon headscarves often referred to as "jilbab".

Between 1984 and 2013, Al-Ghazaly was located on 441 North Street in Teaneck, New Jersey. The new facility in Wayne (formerly Neumann Preparatory School and Lake View Learning Center) opened its doors to students in September 2013, with the Teaneck facility repurposed to serve students in pre-Kindergarten through third grade.^[2]

The students at Al-Ghazaly study standard subjects, such as math (from algebra to calculus), English, science, history. Additionally, the school includes Arabic, Quran (memorization of the holy book), tafsir (analyzing/finding deep meaning to Quran), and Islamic studies as part of the curriculum. In Islamic studies, the students learn the morals and teachings of Islam, Sunna and shariah.

The students pray Zuhr together every day, and on Fridays, they have a Khateeb (imam) preach to them, after which they pray Jumu'ah.

Al Ghazaly offers Forensics, Model UN, Beta Club, Art Club, Mock Trial, Model Congress, Science Olympiad, Math League, and many other extracurriculars. Students partake in random acts of kindness. Ghazaly's basketball team is the Ghazaly Warriors.

With the opening of the new school building, new sports team are being founded by the students, including a boys and girls soccer team and a flag football team.

• Al-Ghazaly High School
• Al-Ghazaly High School Archived 2017-08-18 at the Wayback Machine, National Center for Education Statistics