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.

The school's student body was 55.6% (120) Black, 41.2% (89) White and 3.2% (7) Hispanic.

[2] 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.

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