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A high school social studies teacher and softball coach has been arrested on allegations she had a sexual relationship with a student when he was a junior at a Bergen County high school, authorities said yesterday.

Jillian Clementi, 28, of Rutherford had an ongoing relationship with the teen while he was a student at Wood-Ridge High School at least a year ago, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. She was arrested Wednesday on charges of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

The encounters happened at Clementi’s former residence in Lyndhurst, Molinelli said, adding the teen has since graduated from the high school.

Before her arrest, Clementi was the girls softball coach at Wood-Ridge High School and taught full-time at Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township, the prosecutor said.

She was suspended yesterday from her job at Immaculate Heart, said a spokesman for the Archdioceses of Newark, which runs the school. Clementi, who was an all-state softball player while a student at Immaculate Heart, had taught social studies there since 2008.

“She’s out of the classroom and she’s not part of the faculty now,” said Jim Goodness, the diocese spokesman. “We view these as very serious accusations.”

Wood-Ridge School Superintendent Beth Ebler did not return a call seeking comment and efforts to reach Clementi were unsuccessful.

The investigation was triggered when officials at Wood-Ridge High School heard of the possible sexual relationship and told authorities, Molinelli said. He said the investigation was conducted by the prosecutor’s office’s special victims unit and the Lyndhurst and Wood-Ridge police departments.

Clementi was released from custody after posting $50,000 bail, Molinelli said.