Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 510 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range. The girls' cross country team has won the North II Group I state sectional championships in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2017, and 2018. The boys' cross country team has won the North II Group I state sectional championships 2011 and 2012. The girls' spring track and field team has won North II Group I state sectional championships in 1999 and 2007. The boys' spring track and field team won the North II Group I state sectional championships in 2007. Junior class member Leslie Njoku won the 2006 state All Group (aka NJ Meet of Champions) 400m hurdle title with a time of 59.48 and won the 400m Hurdle title at the Nike Outdoor Nationals with a time of 59.28. The boys track team won the indoor state championship in Group I in 2017. School programs and clubs Beyond McNair's own internal visual and performing arts programs, McNair also works closely with the Visual and Performing Arts program at the Henry Snyder High School, where McNair students may choose to apply into four-year arts intensives. Every year McNair's Science Research students face stiff competition at the various levels of competition, such as Hudson County Science Fair, Junior Science and Humanities Competition, Siemens Westinghouse, and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. In 2022 Class of 2025 student Shreeya Shankerdas founded a club at McNair dedicated to the Marvel Comics superhero Kamala Khan (aka Ms. Marvel), who is herself a native of Jersey City. The club's name, the Coles Kamala Korps, was taken from the fictional Jersey City school attended by the character, which in turn was inspired by McNair itself. Shankerdas commented, "When I first heard about Ms. Marvel being this brown teenage girl, I thought it was really cool that we’re finally represented. On top of that, we were represented in the Marvel Universe, and I thought that was really cool, because it’s a big company." Administration Core members of the school's administration are: Thomas Macagnano, Principal Monica Patel, Vice Principal Notable alumni Joseph Trapanese (born 1984), composer. In popular culture The high school that Marvel superhero Ms. Marvel goes to is named "Coles Academic