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Athletic Compliance and Eligibility

Academic Requirements

 

All Ferris High School student-athletes must meet the academic requirement as set forth by the Jersey City Board of Education and the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). This policy stipulates that student-athletes must meet the following criteria:

 

Credit Requirements

  • All Sophomore, Junior and Senior students must have earned at least 30 credits the previous year to be eligible to participate in fall and winter sports. To be eligible to participate in a Spring sport, students must earn at least 15 credits in the first two marking periods of the current year.
  • Freshmen will not have to meet a credit requirement for Fall and Winter sports participation; however, they will have to earn at least 17.5 credits in the first two marking periods of the current year to be eligible to participate in a spring sport.                                                            

Any student who fails to meet the academic requirements will be ineligible for participate even if they have been medically cleared.

 

Alternative Schools Requirements

CL 3: Vo-Tech/Public Academy Full Time – If a Vocational/Technical High School/Public Academy does not offer the particular sport in which one of its full-time students desires to participate, that student may participate in that sport at his/her sending school upon agreement of both Principals, regardless of the number of sports programs offered at the Vocational/Technical High School/Public Academy.

 

CL 5: Charter School – If a secondary Charter School does not offer the particular sport in which
one of its full-time students wishes to participate, that student may participate in that sport at his/her school of residence upon agreement of both principals, regardless of the number of sports programs offered at the Charter School.

 

In order to participate in Ferris Athletics, potential student-athletes who attends an alternative school must live in James J. Ferris Attendance School Zone as per JCBOE.