Leonia High School
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| Leonia High School | |
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| 100 Christie Heights Street Leonia, NJ 07605 |
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| School district | Leonia Public Schools |
| Principal | Edward Bertolini |
| Vice principal | Ellen Hausner |
| Enrollment |
630 (as of 2005-06)[1] |
| Faculty | 67.4 (on FTE basis)[1] |
| Student:teacher ratio | 9.3[1] |
| Type | Public high school |
| Grades | 8 - 12 |
| Athletics conference | Bergen County Scholastic League Olympic |
| Nickname | Lions |
| Information | 201-302-5200 |
| Homepage | 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, 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.
As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 630 students and 67.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 9.3.[1]
Students are offered a varied program of studies to meet individual needs and goals. The high school experience includes a demanding curriculum and the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of extra and co-curricular activities.
The $6 million expansion of the high school is now complete. Students now have state-of-the-art science laboratories, a digital TV-Media Workshop, a spacious music room and new classrooms.
The Leonia High School Academy for Pharmacy, Medicine and Technology was started in 2002. The academy prepares students for careers in the medical field. Leonia High School's graduation requirements are among the most rigorous in the state. The school has nine periods per day with no study halls.
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[edit] Awards and recognition
Leonia High School was the 67th-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.[2]
[edit] Athletics
The Leonia High School Lions participate in the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) Olympic athletic conference.
The Boys Tennis Team won the North I, Group I state sectional championship with a 3-2 win in the tournament final over New Milford High School.[3]
[edit] Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:[4]
- Edward Bertolini - Principal
- Ellen Hausner - Vice Principal
[edit] Notable alumni
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves (1953-), President of Estonia (Class of 1972).[5]
- Bob Klapisch, sportswriter.[6]
- David Mansfield (1956-), rock musician[citation needed]
- Christiane Noll, singer and actress known for her work in musicals and on the concert stage.[7]
- Ivory Sully (1957-), former NFL Cornerback who played for nine seasons, mostly with the Los Angeles Rams[8]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Leonia High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 6, 2008.
- ^ "Top Public High Schools in New Jersey" (Schools 51-100), New Jersey Monthly, September 2006, backed up by Internet Archive as of March 10, 2007. Accessed March 5, 2008.
- ^ 2008 Boys Team Tennis - North I, Group I, NJSIAA. Accessed June 2, 2008.
- ^ LHS Overview, Leonia High School. Accessed May 25, 2008.
- ^ 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). Acecssed 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."
- ^ 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, accessed October 4, 2006.
