Announcements & Events
Class of 2024 Local Scholarships are now available through March 24th!
The Scheduling Process for Next Year Has Begun!
- Course Catalog for next year.
- Instructions on how to enter course requests on your student/parent portal.
- The Scheduling Presentation that you'll review when you meet with a guidance counselor in a large group setting.
- The ability to make course requests on both the student and parent portals should begin on February 13 and will close on February 25. You may change your selections as often as you like within this window ... just do not hit "Finalize" or you will be locked out.
- You will meet once with a guidance counselor in a classroom-setting to view their presentation, discuss the scheduling process and ask general questions.
- You will meet a second time with your guidance counselor for a one-on-one scheduling meeting where you can ask specific questions and will finalize your selections.
- Now is a great time to talk to teachers about courses, levels and get some advice about next year.
- Now is a great time to have conversations with your parent(s)/guardian(s) about your choices and how they support your plans for after high school.
- The counselors will be reviewing your mid-year report card to make sure you have the grade prerequisites to get into the academics that you're selecting.
- The administration does its best to build the schedule around what you tell us you want at these individual meetings. Please do your best to make these choices as accurate as possible. If you don't ask for something now, then we probably won't be able to give it to you later on.
- Animation is a new 1/2 year course in the Business & Technology department.
- Illustrator is a new 1/2 year course in the Visual & Fine Arts department.
- Our Physics courses are being renamed to match up with the AP curriculum that is being taught.
- Honors Physics will now be called AP Physics 1.
- AP Physics will now be called AP Physics 2.
- And for those of you who like to sing:
- Treble Choir is now called Concert Choir and is the foundational choir at the school.
- Concert Choir is now called Chamber Choir and enrollment is by audition / teacher recommendation only.
SAT Registration & Test Information -- SPRING TEST ADMINISTRATION
This is a digital SAT test administration -- as the paper & pencil format is no longer available. Students must bring their fully charged Chrome book & power cord to the test administration.
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- $60 -- Please make checks out to "Hackettstown High School"
- There is a cancellation fee of $30 charged if you don't take the test for any reason.
- Students on free and reduced lunch may take the test for free.
The Scholarship Bulletin is now available. Click the arrow to view.
FAFSA DELAYED AGAIN- Opens by 12/31/23
ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Assessment Battery)
Rotary Exchange Program w/ Japan
ROTARY SEEKS STUDENTS FOR
3 WEEK EXCHANGE WITH JAPAN
Rotary District 7475 is looking for students ages 15 to 18 to participate in a unique three-week trip to southern Japan. The Rotary Short Term Youth Exchange to Japan (STYE), now in its 46th year, provides an in-depth cultural experience that cannot be duplicated as a tourist.
If you know students who may be interested in this trip, please send this information to them.
The group will visit major cities in southern Japan including Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Hiroshima. The students will then move to the island of Shikoku where they will enjoy four home-stays with local Japanese Rotarian families.
The all-inclusive cost of the trip is $3,950 (this includes airfare). Students are selected through an interview process which will take place in January and February. Applications will be accepted beginning December 1. Interviews are scheduled based upon the order the applications are received.
For more information and the application form visit our website at:
https://njrotary.org/SitePage/
If you have any other questions, contact me at JRA18
Jim Allison, Chair Rotary District 7475 STYE
AP Exam Registration & Payment
- Students receive a "Join Code" form their AP teacher at Hackettstown.
- Students use the code to join their AP Classroom.
- In the AP Classroom the student must change their exam order status from "undecided" to either "yes" or "no".
- This must be done separately for every AP Course the student is taking. (Each course has it's own join code, its own classroom and the test must be ordered separately.)
- Print the AP Payment Form (The form can be found in the upper right of this webpage. It was also emailed to students and AP teachers.)
- List all of the AP Exams which were marked "yes" for order status.
- Complete the from to calculate the costs.
- Checks should be made out to "Hackettstown High School".
- Return this form to Mrs. Willson in the guidance office by Friday, October 20th.
- NOTE: Collegeboard charges fees if tests are ordered late or if an ordered test is cancelled or not taken.
- Hackettstown will reimburse students the cost of every exam where a score of 4 or 5 is achieved.
- AP normally releases scores in early to mid July. Reimbursement checks should be processed by the end of the summer vacation.
Financial Aid Night -- View The Presentation Here
- New Changes to the Fafsa form
- Changes to the Federal loans
- Where to Find Scholarships
- The New NJ Garden State Grant Programs
- State Financial Aid Changes
- The Impact of Early Decision and Early Action on Financial Aid
- New Deadlines for the College Process
- You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
- When: Oct 3, 2023 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- Topic: Hackettstown High School "The College Aid Presentation"
- Register in advance for this webinar:
- https://us02web.zoom.us/
webinar/register/WN_ 3bVpNMapRW-4vCwWcigysQ
- Our Scholarship Program The James Russo Memorial Scholarship Video
- 10 Important Changes To The Fafsa Form This Year
https://youtu.be/D0bK4iKkEUM - The Legal forms you should be looking to fill out before your students head off to college
https://youtu.be/xtr_9Pi8ORw
The Centenary Universtiy Partnership Full Tuition Scholarship available now! Dealine to apply is November 1st. See attached flier
PSAT Registration & Test Information -- THE PSAT WILL NOT BE OFFERED AGAIN THIS SCHOOL YEAR
PSAT
DATE OF TEST -- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25
The PSAT is a practice test designed to prepare students for success on the actual SAT which is a common college entrance requirement. It is recommended that students who are considering college take the PSAT twice – once in 10th grade and again in 11th grade. Juniors who take the PSAT are also enrolled in the PSAT/NMSQT scholarship competition.
- Juniors test for free;
- Sophomores pay the $18 fee charged by CollegeBoard;
- Sophomores on free/reduced lunches can take the test at no cost.
• First Name
• Middle Initial
• Last Name
• Date of Birth
• Gender (F = Female; M = Male; A = Another)
• Grade
• Student School ID
• State Student ID
College Fair on Monday, September 11 from 6PM to 8PM
Albright College
Bryant University
Cairn University
Caldwell University
Cedar Crest College
Centenary University
County College of Morris
Delaware College of Art and Design
Delaware Valley University
CCM-Career Advance USA
DeSales University
Dickinson College
Drew University
Eastern Connecticut State University
Elizabethtown College
Emmanuel College
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Felician University
FullSail
George Mason University
Georgian Court University
Georgian Court University
Georgian Court University
Holy Family University
Husson University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Innovate Salon Academy
Johnson & Wales University
King's College
Lawrence Technological University
Lees-McRae College
Lincoln Tech-Mahwah Campus
Lycoming College
Manhattan College
Marywood University
Merrimack College
Montclair State University
Moravian University
Muhlenberg College
New York Film Academy
Nichols College
NJIT
Nova Southeastern University
Nova Southeastern University
Ohio University
Ramapo College
Ramapo College
Rider University
Roger Williams University
Saint Elizabeth University
Saint Elizabeth University
Saint Joseph's University
Seton Hall University
Stockton University
Suffolk University
SUNY Oswego
SUNY Oswego
Susquehanna University
The College of New Jersey
The University of Maine
The University of Scranton
The University of Scranton
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Alabama
University of Maryland
University of New Haven
University of Rhode Island
Wagner College
Warren Community College
Washington & Jefferson College
Wentworth Institute of Technology
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Western Connecticut State University
Western New England University
William Paterson University
York College of Pennsylvania
Schedule & Schedule Change Requests for the 2023-2024 year (DEADLINE FRIDAY 9/15/23)
- The student & parent portals currently display the courses which students are currently enrolled in for the 2023-24 school year on the "Schedule" tab. (Information about periods, rooms and teachers are not shown.)
- These courses were displayed since June's course drop/add window.
- We anticipate providing full schedules with periods, rooms and teachers on or shortly after Friday, August 25.
- Students should play to begin the school year with the schedule as is.
- Counselors begin the school year working with students who are new to the high school.
- The schedule change request window will open on Wednesday, September 6th.
- The deadline to request a schedule change will be Friday, September 15th.
- To request a change, please complete and email a "Schedule Change Request Form" to your counselor. Forms must include the parental signature to be considered complete. The form can be found in the upper right-hand of this webpage. Please expand the box to select the pdf.
- We want to address your request as promptly as possible. It may, however, take a few days for the counselor to review your request. We ask for you patience during this time.
- Students should follow their schedule until they receive an actual change from their guidance counselor.
- Students who are (1) have an empty block with no classes in it or (2) who are in a class that was taken in a previous year are asked to come down to the guidance office during that block to have the problem expedited.
AP Exam Payment Form
SAT Registration Form