Leonia High School

Located at 100 Christie Heights Street, in Leonia, New Jersey, Leonia High School is a medium-sized senior high that serves 802 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Leonia Public School District.

Leonia Public School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,980 students. Leonia High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Leonia High School shows that 36% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 28% Hispanic, 23% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 17% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Leonia High School has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 29% of students at Leonia High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Leonia High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 53.4%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Bergen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Leonia High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Leonia Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Leonia High School. On composite proficiency, Leonia High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Leonia High School has edged up 17%, going from 688 students in 2018 to 802 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 32% to 23%. Class-load math has grew: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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