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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.〔(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.〕 As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 609 students and 47.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. There were 7 students (1.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch..〔(School Data for Verona High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 16, 2015.〕 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.〔Starnes, Joe Samuel. ("SOAPBOX; Smile When You Say That" ), ''The New York Times'', March 19, 2006. Accessed September 10, 2011. "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."〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== Verona High School won the New Jersey Star School Award for the 1995–96 school year.〔(Star School Award recipient detail ), New Jersey Department of Education, Archived December 18, 2006. Accessed November 30, 2009.〕 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.〔(About VHS ), Verona High School. Accessed September 10, 2011.〕 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.〔Staff. ("Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.〕 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.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed September 20, 2012.〕 The magazine ranked the school 53rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed September 10, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 47th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.〔("Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.〕 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).〔(New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010–2011 ), Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 5, 2012.〕 In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by ''The Washington Post'', the school was ranked 59th in New Jersey and 1,718th nationwide.〔Mathews, Jay. ("The High School Challenge 2011: Verona High School" ), ''The Washington Post''. Accessed September 10, 2011.〕 In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''The Daily Beast'' ranked the school 718th in the nation among participating public high schools and 56th among schools in New Jersey.〔Streib, Lauren. ("America's Best High Schools" ), ''The Daily Beast'', May 6, 2013. Accessed May 9, 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Verona High School (New Jersey)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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