Verona High School (New Jersey)

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Verona High School
School type	Public high school
District	Verona Public Schools
Grades	9-12
Principal	Glen Cesa
Faculty	58
Students	≈500
Colors Mascot	Maroon & White Hillbilly
Location	151 Fairview Avenue Verona, NJ 07044
Website	Verona High School

Verona High School is the only public high school of the Verona Public Schools in Verona, in Essex County, New Jersey. The school serves grades 9th through 12th, with roughly 120 students per grade.

The school mascot is the Verona Hillbilly, which was originally pictured with a bottle of whiskey and a shotgun, but was revised to be with a dog and a fishing pole, due to concerns of underage drinking.

1 Awards and recognition
2 Athletics
3 Administration
4 Notable alumni
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Awards and recognition

Verona High School won the prestigious New Jersey Star School Award for the 1995-1996 school year. The school also won the New Jersey Best Practice Award in the 1995-1996 school year for Citizenship / Tolerance in recognition of its program in Prejudice Reduction. In the 1997-1998 school year, it received the Best Practice Award for Citizenship & Character Education in recognition of Teaching Responsibility Through Involvement.

Verona High School was the 47th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.^[1]

On the February 2, 2007, Verona High School is going to host Rotary Exchange Students and AFL students from all over the world. Those students are supposed to have some activities to do in Verona over the weekend.

Verona High School's 2006 Mock Trial team also advanced to County Semifinals, for the first time in four years.

[edit] Athletics

The Verona High School Hillbillies compete in the Colonial Hills Conference which is comprised of eighteen public and parochial high schools covering Essex County, Morris County and Somerset County in west central New Jersey, under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).

In 2005, the Verona High School athletic teams excelled in various sports. Most notably, the football team reached the state championship at Giants Stadium where they competed against Hoboken High School and lost 21-6, but beat Hoboken High School 7-3 in the NJSIAA Semifinals in 2006, Also, The Girls Track Team won the North II, Group I, and the Group I Championship. The Girls Softball team won the North II, Group I title for the first time ever, and along with the baseball team, won the Conference title.