Verona High School (New Jersey)
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| 151 Fairview Avenue Verona, NJ 07044 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | Your Future Starts Here |
| School district | Verona Public Schools |
| Principal | Joshua Cogdill |
| Vice principal | Tom Lancaster |
| Faculty | 48.2 FTEs |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 620 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.9:1 |
| Color(s) |
Maroon and white |
| Team name | Hillbillies |
| Newspaper | The Fairviewer |
| Yearbook | Shadows |
| Website | School website |
Verona High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade in Verona, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Verona Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1947.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 620 students and 48.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1. There were 11 students (1.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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 school violence and under-age drinking.
Verona High School won the New Jersey Star School Award for the 1995–96 school year. The school won the New Jersey Best Practice Award in the 1995–96 school year for Citizenship / Tolerance in recognition of its program in Prejudice Reduction. In the 1997–98 school year, it received the Best Practice Award for Citizenship & Character Education in recognition of Teaching Responsibility Through Involvement.
The school was the 56th-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 70th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 53rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 53rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 47th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 133rd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 33 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.7%) and language arts literacy (95.4%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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