Livingston High School (New Jersey)

Infobox School
name = Livingston High School


image caption = The front of Livingston High School
motto = "A Tradition of Excellence"
established = 1953
type = Public high school
district = Livingston Public Schools
grades = 9-12
principal = Pam Clause McGroarty
viceprincipal = Daniel S. Finkle
Peter Hughes
Mark Stern
information = 973-535-8000
address = 33 Robert Harp Drive
city = Livingston
state = NJ
zipcode = 07039
country = USA
campus type = Suburban
campus size =
enrollment = 1,588 (as of 2005-06)
faculty = 128.2 (on FTE basis)
ratio = 12.4
teamname = Lancers
colors = Green and white
homepage = [http://www.livingston.org/lhs School website]

Livingston High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Livingston, in Essex County, New Jersey, as part of the Livingston Public Schools.

Livingston High School offers 20 Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses within eight department areas. The Principal is Pamela Clause McGroarty.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,588 students and 128.2 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis, for a student-teacher ratio of 12.4. [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3408820&ID=340882002126 Livingston High School] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2007.]

Awards and recognition

For the 1997-98 school year, Livingston High School received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. [ [http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-1982.pdf Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF)] , accessed May 11, 2006.]

The school was the 19th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 314 schools statewide, in "New Jersey Monthly" magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools". The school was ranked 14th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. [ [http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/highschoolrankings/top-new-jersey-high-schools-by-rank.html "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank"] , "New Jersey Monthly", September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.]

In "Newsweek's" May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Livingston High School was listed in 832nd place, the 20th-highest ranked school in New Jersey. [ [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18757087/?sort=State&count=1257&search=&start=700&limit=100&year=2007& "The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools"] , "Newsweek", May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007.]

Livingston High School received recognition for its AP Program as a State High School winner of the Seimen's Award for Advanced Placement.

Athletics

The Livingston High School Lancers compete in the Iron Division of the 20-member Iron Hills Conference.

Notable alumni

*Erin Abrahamson (born 1983), Miss New Jersey Teen USA 2001, Miss New Jersey USA 2007. [ [http://www.geocities.com/behindusa07/usa07contestants.html Miss USA 2007] Behind the Crown, March 23, 2007. Accessed May 17, 2007. "Erin graduated from Livingston High School in 2002 and has completed her Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education from Montclair State University in 2006."]
*Jason Alexander (born 1959), class of 1977, (born Jason Scott Greenspan), an actor who played George Costanza on Seinfeld. [ [http://www.canada.com/tvtropolis/story.html?id=33b6f8aa-cec4-400b-b670-40d59bf5b20e Jason Alexander / Seinfeld] , TVtropolis, May 26, 2006.]
*Bruce Beck, class of 1974, sportscaster on WNBC. [ [http://www.livingston.org/www/livingston/site/hosting/news-april2005.htm District News] , Livingston Board of education. Accessed June 2, 2007. "The Big L Club fund raising event, Lancers on Parade Fashion Show and Tricky Tray, will be held at LHS on Saturday, April 16. Prizes include a private NBC Studio tour with LHS graduate and NBC sports anchor Bruce Beck."]
*Harlan Coben (born 1962), class of 1980, "The New York Times" best-selling author of "Promise Me", "Tell No One" and "No Second Chance", ["Book looks at what drives teens JERSEY INK", "The Star-Ledger", May 25, 2006. "Coben, who was born in Newark and grew up in Livingston, graduating from Livingston High School, has relatives in Livingston and often goes there. He has lived in Ridgewood since 1992."]
*Alan Cooper, class of 1967, founding member of Sha Na Na.
*Lucille Davy, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education. [ [http://www.state.nj.us/governor/cabinet/lucille_davy.html Lucille Davy] , Office of the Governor of New Jersey. Accessed December 6, 2007.]
*Chelsea Handler (born 1975), class of 1993, American stand-up comedian and star of the Chelsea Handler Show on E!.
*Jian Li (born 1988), 2006 graduate who filed a civil rights complaint with the Office for Civil Rights against Princeton University claiming the University discriminated against him on the basis of his race. [ [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/11/13/news/16544.shtml Rejected applicant alleges bias against Asians] , Daily Princetonian", November 13, 2006.]
*Tommy Page (born 1970), class of 1988, singer who had a #1 single on the Billboard 100 with "I'll Be Your Everything", a collaboration with New Kids on the Block.
*Roger Y. Tsien (born 1952), co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and 1968 national winner of the Westinghouse Talent Search. [Swayze, Bill. [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=0EFDA7482424E8F4&p_docnum=1&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=B66T5DCTMTE5MDAyNzY4My41NTQ5OTI6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "Jersey teens call science a winner: Two finalists say just being in Westinghouse talent competition is prize enough"] , "The Star-Ledger", March 11, 1997. Accessed September 18, 2007. "Only one New Jersey teenager has ever captured top honors in the history of the competition. That was Roger Tsien in 1968. The then-16-year-old Livingston High School math-science whiz explored the way subatomic particles act as bridges between two dissimilar metal atoms in various complex molecules."]
*DJ Yoshi, class of 1999, (born Eric De Torres), a DJ / radio and television personality who was the official DJ of the New Jersey Nets.
*Jason Zimbler, class of 1995, actor who played Ferguson on "Clarissa Explains It All"fact|date=December 2007

References

External links

* [http://www.livingston.org/lhs/ Official site]
* [http://www.livingston.org/ Livingston Public Schools]
*NJReportCard|13|2730|0|Livingston Public Schools
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3408820 Data for the Livingston Public Schools] , National Center for Education Statistics