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High school in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States

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, in the U. S. state of New Jersey, operating 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 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 847 students and 60.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.0:1. There were 118 students (13.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 35 (4.1% of students) eligible for reduced cost lunch. Leonia High School was begun in 1912, when the borough became one of relatively few municipalities in Bergen County to have a high school. During its early years, the school attracted students from seven other school districts in the area, who attended on a tuition basis. The original school building was opened in 1913; expansions to the physical plant were made in 1917, 1937, 1946, and 1963. The school was experiencing severe overcrowding by the 1970s, and after two boroughwide referendums to build a new school failed, a third was passed. The present Leonia High School building was opened in 1977, with the original building being repurposed as Leonia Middle School.

By the early 20th century, Leonia was growing with the construction of new homes, many of them built by the Leonia Heights Land Company, The land had previously been a farm. The new building had its cornerstone laid at ceremonies held in December 1912; it was completed in April 1913, with a facade oriented towards Christie Heights Street near Broad Avenue. The new high school opened in September 1913 and had modern facilities for that era. Leonia became one of only about a dozen municipalities in all of Bergen County with their own high schools. (The tuition would typically be paid for by the sending town, not the parents of the pupils involved.) A trolley line ran along Broad Avenue at the time and this enabled students from outside Leonia to reach the high school in a convenient manner. In all, there were seven school districts sending high school pupils to Leonia on a tuition basis. Maywood was another early town, although the relationship ended in the early 1920s. Palisades Park was sending students to Leonia as of at least the 1920s and 1930s, And for a while in the 1930s, Edgewater students attended Leonia High School on a tuition basis. These relationships could change over time, as towns switched arrangements or built their own high schools. Other towns that sent students to Leonia High School at some point were Fort Lee and Teaneck.

In 1945, the Board of Education proposed the addition of a new gymnasium that would cost $275,000 (equivalent to $0.275 in 1945 is equivalent to about <calculated amount> in recent years million in ) and continued into 1947 before being completed. Following the 1957–58 school year, Palisades Park and Ridgefield stopped sending students to Leonia High School. Palisades Park decided to send its students to Cliffside Park High School and Ridgefield was in the process of building Ridgefield Memorial High School. As part of replacing the tuition income from these two towns, Leonia High School began receiving students from Edgewater again in 1958,) In an opposite flow, some Leonia students also went at least part time to Bergen County Vocational Technical High School. Completed in 1963, the expansion consisted of a new wing on the southeast corner,

During these years, Leonia had no middle school; the Anna C. Scott Elementary School served grades K through 7, after which, in a transition that the school system itself characterized as "abrupt", students would move to the high school for grades 8 through 12. Additional students arrived at the high school in grade 9, Then more students arrived in grade 10, the grade at which Edgewater sending began its sending in that era. Leonia was known for the artists and intellectuals who lived there, and while there were indeed some Columbia University professors who were residents, there were not as many as some people imagined; plenty of other kinds of people lived in the town, especially from the 1940s on. In particular, fully one eighth of the population was comprised of senior citizens on fixed incomes. But the Bogota proposal would require new building too, Whereas the school had only been designed for 500 pupils, by 1972 there were over 800 students coming to it. Undeterred, the Board of Education put the exact same proposal up for another vote in September 1972, hoping to sway enough minds to get approval. After surveying voter wishes, the Board of Education revised its proposal for a new high school, producing one with a lower cost figure of $4 million (equivalent to $4.0 in 1974 is equivalent to about <calculated amount> in recent years million in ). Also threatening to oppose the referendum were sixth and seventh grade parents in the grade school who were unhappy with the school system's short term handling of overcrowding there following an August 1974 fire that destroyed a wing of that facility. By then, many Bergen County municipalities were rejecting referendums designed to overhaul or replace aging infrastructure, with inflation of that era being an overriding economic concern.

Leonia High School opened at its current location in January 1977, after multiple issues with subcontractors led to several delays from the original planned opening in September at the start of the school year.) Constructed at a final cost of $4.5 million (equivalent to $4.5 in 1976 is equivalent to about <calculated amount> in recent years million in ) and offering 50 percent more space than its predecessor, the building served 650 students, including 140 from Edgewater. During the mid 1980s, there was a reduction in enrollment for a while; thoughts about regionalization again took place, however Leonians preferred home rule and home schools A $4.9 million (equivalent to $4.9 in 1995 is equivalent to about <calculated amount> in recent years million in ) bond issue passed by the residents in 1995 provided an upgrade of computers and network connectivity for instructional use. Gradually the older population in Leonia turned over, with younger residents with families moving in. Their families were filling up Edgewater schools and, when old enough, Leonia schools; and by 2017, some 40 percent of students in Leonia High School were from Edgewater. As of the late 2010s, Edgewater was the fastest growing municipality in northern New Jersey. Accordingly, an addition to the high school was completed in 2002, using funding from a school system wide $6.1 million (equivalent to $6.1 in 1999 is equivalent to about <calculated amount> in recent years million in ) referendum that was passed in 1999. During 2009 and 2010, the high school building had its entire roof replaced, its HVAC system redone, and solar panels added. The work had been approved as part of a $20.3 million (equivalent to $20.3 in 2009 is equivalent to about <calculated amount> in recent years million in ) referendum for similar change for all three Leonia school buildings, In 2017, construction began on a $7.6 million (equivalent to $7.6 in 2017 is equivalent to about <calculated amount> in recent years million in ) addition to the high school to add a culinary academy and a number of classrooms. The addition was completed in 2019. These academies grouped interested students in smaller cohorts in order to pursue potential career paths in combination with specific experience outside the classroom environment.

In 1957, the school's chess team was the New Jersey high school team champion, winning the Father Casimir J. Finley Trophy.

Leonia has had an active quiz bowl team for decades. In January 1966, for instance, the team placed a close second to The Wheatley School of Old Westbury, New York on the television show It's Academic. In April 2017, Leonia won the Junior Varsity National Championship title for the Small School Division of the National History Bowl, led by Nathan Finn, who was the 2016 Junior Varsity New Jersey History Bee State Champion.

The Leonia High School Lions participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which comprises small enrollment schools in Bergen, Hudson, Morris and Passaic counties, and was created following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). Prior to the realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Leonia was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League Olympic Division. With 505 students in grades 10 12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range. The school participates as the host school / lead agency for joint cooperative girls soccer, boys / girls swimming and wrestling teams with Palisades Park High School, while Palisades Park is the host school for a co op football team. These co op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The boys track team won the Group II spring / outdoor track state championship in 1961. [[Image:Lee Clark Scholarship Final 4 sign in Leonia. jpg|thumb|right|Sign along Broad Avenue for an annual scholarship dinner held in honor of former basketball coach Lee Clark. The basketball court at the high school is named after Clark. Joel Raucci was a two time state champion in wrestling during 1970–71 and 1971–72. The only person from the school ever to have won the championship twice, in 2020 he was named one by Northjersey. com as one of the greatest wrestlers in Northern New Jersey history. The girls tennis team won the Group I state championship in 2002 (defeating New Providence High School in the tournament final) and 2019 (vs. Glen Rock High School). The 2019 team used wins in all three singles matches to win the Group I finals against Glen Rock. Leonia football, which is a co op program with Palisades Park High School, became the first cooperative program to have reached a finals game in state history when the team made the North Jersey II Group III state championship game in 2012, falling to Summit High School by a 30–0 final score. The team finished 9–3 which was the most wins in Leonia school history, and Head Coach David Schuman was awarded NJIC coach of the year and The Record ranked the team 12th in North Jersey.

The principal is Charles Kalender. His administration team includes the vice principal and athletic director.