Verona High School

As an intimate 9-12 campus in VERONA, New Jersey, Verona High School serves 593 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by Verona Public School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Verona High School sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

Verona High School is one of 6 schools operated by Verona Public School District, a district that instructs 2,167 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Verona High School records that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Verona High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 1% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Verona High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Verona High School is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

Nearest neighbor: Frederic N. Brown Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Verona High School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Verona High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 687 students in 2018 compared to 593 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Verona High School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.