Type Public high school Vice principal Charles Kalender Phone +1 201-302-5200 Color Grey Founded 1912 | Established 1912 Principal Edward Bertolini Faculty 58.4 FTEs Number of students 689 (2014–2015) Lowest grade Ninth grade | |
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Address 100 Christie Heights St, Leonia, NJ 07605, USA | ||
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Leonia High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grade from the Borough of Leonia in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Leonia Public Schools. Students from Edgewater attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Edgewater Public Schools.
Contents
- Leonia high school 2015 senior year video
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- History
- Awards recognition and rankings
- Extracurricular activities
- Athletics
- Administration
- Notable alumni
- References
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 689 students and 58.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. There were 86 students (12.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 28 (4.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
25 may 2016 leonia high school men s chorus sings my girl conducted by kerry dunn
History
The school opened at its current location in January 1977, after multiple issues with subcontractors led to several delays from the original planned opening in September at the start of the school year. Constructed at a cost of $4.5 million and offering 50% more space than its predecessor, the building served 650 students, including 140 from Edgewater.
A $6 million expansion of the school included science laboratories, a digital TV-Media Workshop, a music room, and new classrooms.
Awards, recognition and rankings
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 14th in New Jersey and 657th nationwide.
The school was the 94th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 52nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 49th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 51st in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 67th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 174th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 4 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
Extracurricular activities
In 1957, the school's chess team was the New Jersey high school team champion, winning the Father Casimir J. Finley Trophy.
Athletics
The Leonia High School Lions participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which consists of public and private schools located in Bergen County, Passaic County and Hudson County, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Prior to the realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Leonia was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League Olympic Division. With 508 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014–15 school year as North II, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 508 to 770 students in that grade range.
The school operates as the lead agency / host for joint girls' soccer and boys' and girl's swimming programs with Palisades Park High School, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2016-17 school year; in turn, Palisades Park High School is the lead agency for a cooperative football program with Leonia.
The school has fielded only one team to win a New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association statewide championship, the 1967 varsity basketball team, which defeated Burlington Township High School in the Group I tournament final.
Leonia football, which is a co-op program with Palisades Park High School, became the first cooperative program to have reached a finals game in state history when the team made the North Jersey II Group III state championship game in 2012, falling to Summit High School by a 30-0 final score. The team finished 9-3 which was the most wins in Leonia school history, and Head Coach David Schuman was awarded NJIC coach of the year and The Record ranked the team #12 in North Jersey.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are: