| Verona High School | |
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151 Fairview Avenue , , 07044 United States | |
| Coordinates | 40°50′33″N 74°14′52″W / 40.842635°N 74.247717°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | Your Future Starts Here |
| School district | Verona Public Schools |
| NCES School ID | 341674002448[2] |
| Principal | Joshua Cogdill |
| Faculty | 51.6 FTEs[2] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 637 (as of 2022–23)[2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.3:1[2] |
| Color(s) | Maroon and white[3] |
| Athletics conference | Super Essex Conference (general) North Jersey Super Football Conference (football) |
| Team name | Hillbillies[3] |
| Publication | Avant Garde (literary magazine)[1] |
| Newspaper | The Fairviewer[1] |
| Yearbook | Shadows[1] |
| Website | www |
Verona High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade in Verona, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, 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 Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1947.[4][5]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 637 students and 51.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1. There were 9 students (1.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and none were listed as eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]
The school mascot is the Verona Hillbilly, which reflected the remote, rural nature of the community. It was originally created in the 1950s and pictured with a bottle of moonshine and a shotgun. The mascot later was redesigned with a dog and a fishing pole due to concerns of school violence and under-age drinking.[6][7]
- ^ a b c Curriculum Bulletin, Verona High School. Accessed March 6, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e School data for Verona High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
NJSIAAprofilewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Verona High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 24, 2014. Accessed March 30, 2015.
- ^ Member Directory, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed September 20, 2012.
- ^ Genovese, Peter. "What's in a nickname? Often, a school's history", The Home News, January 5, 1986. Accessed October 18, 2021, via Newspapers.com "Take Verona High School, whose nickname is the Hillbillies. 'This was the sticks years ago,' said Principal Joseph Pirrello. 'That's where the Hillbillies came from.' The school's emblem, according to Pirrello, is a 'big hillbilly with a corncob pipe and a shaggy-looking beard sitting on a railing.'"
- ^ Starnes, Joe Samuel. "Soapbox; Smile When You Say That", The New York Times, March 19, 2006. Accessed January 16, 2020. "It has been Verona High School's nickname for more than 60 years, and the original Hillbilly mascot, dating back to the 1950s, carried a rifle and a jug of liquor. In recent years his image was softened by replacing the gun and the moonshine with a fishing pole."