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.[2]

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. ^ "RISING STAR ACADEMY". Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e School data for Rising Star Academy, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 10, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Cusido, Carmen. "Embracing Islam", New Jersey Monthly, February 8, 2010.
  4. ^ Rising Star Academy, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed December 30, 2022.


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