Leonia High School
| Leonia High School | |
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| 100 Christie Heights Street Leonia, NJ 07605 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| School district | Leonia Public Schools |
| Principal | Edward Bertolini |
| Vice principal | Erich Breyer |
| Faculty | 54 (on FTE basis)[1] |
| Grades | 9 - 12 |
| Enrollment | 636 (as of 2009-10)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.78[1] |
| Athletics conference | North Jersey Interscholastic Conference |
| Nickname | Lions |
| Alumni | LHS Alumni website |
| Website | School website |
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.[2][3]
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 636 students and 54 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.78.[1]
A $6 million expansion of the school has state-of-the-art science laboratories, a digital TV-Media Workshop, a spacious music room, and new classrooms. The school has nine periods per day with no study halls.
The Leonia High School Academy for Pharmacy, Medicine and Technology was started in 2002. The academy strives to prepare students for careers in the medical field.
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[edit] Awards and recognition
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 14th in New Jersey and 657th nationwide.[4]
The school was the 49th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 51st in 2008 out of 316 schools.[5] The school was ranked 67th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.[6] 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).[7]
[edit] 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.[8] Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Leonia was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League Olympic Division. With 488 students in grades 10 to 12, the school is classified as North I Group I, a category that includes schools with enrollment of 157 to 489 in those three grades.[9]
To date, the school has fielded only one team to win a New Jersey NJSIAA statewide championship, the undefeated 1967 varsity basketball team.[citation needed]
[edit] Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:[10]
- Edward Bertolini - Principal
[edit] Notable alumni
- Barbara Corcoran (born 1949, Class of 1967), real estate investor and agent.[11]
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves (born 1953), class of 1972, President of Estonia (Eesti Vabariigi president).[12]
- Bob Klapisch, sportswriter.[13]
- Vera Maxwell (1901-95), fashion designer.[14]
- David Mansfield (born 1956), rock musician.[15]
- Christiane Noll, singer and actress known for her work in musicals and on the concert stage.[16]
- Ivory Sully (born 1957), former NFL cornerback who played for nine seasons, mostly with the Los Angeles Rams[17][18]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Leonia High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed June 16, 2011.
- ^ Leonia Public Schools 2010 School Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 30, 2011. "Our community expands in grades 7-12 to include students from Edgewater."
- ^ Leonia Schools at a glance, Leonia Public Schools. Accessed March 30, 2011.
- ^ Mathews, Jay. "The High School Challenge 2011: Leonia High School", The Washington Post. Accessed July 27, 2011.
- ^ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed June 16, 2011.
- ^ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
- ^ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 16, 2012.
- ^ League Memberships – 2011-2012, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed February 16, 2012.
- ^ 2011-2012 Public Schools Group Classification for ShopRite Cup–Tennis–Soccer–Basketball–Baseball–Softball for North I, NJSIAA. Accessed February 16, 2012.
- ^ Overview, Leonia High School. Accessed June 16, 2011.
- ^ Corcoran, Barbara; and Littlefield, Bruce. Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 Into a Billion Dollar Business, p. 64. Penguin Books, 2011. ISBN 1591844185. Accessed June 16, 2011. "I looked up at the notice posted on the big bulletin board outside the Leonia High School gym:"
- ^ Feibel, Carolyn. "Baltic president has N.J. roots", The Record (Bergen County), November 29, 2006. Accessed January 2, 2008. "Toomas "Tom" Ilves grew up in Leonia, which not only rhymes with Estonia, but was the perfect nursery for his foreign political ambitions, his 79-year-old mother said.... The irony of the whole thing was that Toomas clearly had no problem expressing independent thought, and his later success in life reflects well on Leonia High School."
- ^ Bob Klapisch profile, The Record (Bergen County). Accessed July 14, 2007. "Robert Salvador Klapisch was born in New York City and grew up in Leonia. He is a graduate of Leonia H.S., where he played baseball, and Columbia University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science."
- ^ Jackson, Kenneth T.; Markoe, Karen; and Markoe, Arnie. The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 1994-1996, p. 352. Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000. ISBN 0684806444. Accessed September 19, 2011. "She attended Leonia High School in New Jersey for one year, then entered the Metropolitan Opera School of Ballet in New York City."
- ^ Gray, Michael. The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, p. 449. Continuum, 2006. ISBN 0826469337. Accessed February 16, 2012. "Mansfield, David [c. 1956 - ] David Mansfield is very coy about his birth date but he was born around 1956 in Leonia, New Jersey, where he grew up to be a multi-instrumentalist, playing mostly violin, mandolin and guitar."
- ^ Filichia, Peter. "N.J. STAGE; Actress singing for joy at the Paper Mill.", The Star-Ledger, April 14, 2000. p. 23. "For Christiane Noll, performing in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of 'The Student Prince' is a homecoming beyond the usual definition. Growing up in Bergen County, she played Mrs. Barnum in a Leonia Middle School production of 'Barnum' and was a Jet girl in a Leonia High School staging of 'West Side Story.'"
- ^ .Ivory Sully, databasefootball.com. Accessed February 16, 2012.
- ^ Caldera, Pete. "Where are they now? Ivory Sully of Leonia", The Record (Bergen County), February 6, 2012. Accessed February 16, 2012. "Sully now resides in the University of Delaware Hall of Fame. But his professional road from Leonia High School to a nine-year NFL career, with stops in Tampa Bay and Detroit, began as an undrafted free agent."
[edit] External links
- Leonia High School
- Leonia Public Schools
- Leonia Alumni Network
- Leonia High School's 2009–10 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Leonia Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
Coordinates: 40°52′10″N 73°59′16″W / 40.869355°N 73.987778°W
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