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Lodi High School is a four-year comprehensive
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that serves students in
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from Lodi, in
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, operating as the lone secondary school of the Lodi Public Schools. The school is accredited by the
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, with accreditation expiring in January 2030. As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 925 students and 64.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a
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of 14.4:1. There were 385 students (41.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 137 (14.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Lodi High School
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. Accessed December 15, 2024.


History

Students from East Paterson (since renamed as Elmwood Park) had been sent to Lodi High School under a
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until 1953 and then were shifted to
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starting in 1954 due to lack of capacity at the Lodi school, staying there until Elmwood Park Memorial High School opened in 1957. High School students from Little Ferry had attended the school until the 1953-54 school year, when the Little Ferry Public Schools shifted its students to Ridgefield Park High School. Students in ninth through twelfth grades from Saddle Brook had attended Lodi High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship until the new Saddle Brook High School opened in September 1958 for grades 7-10, with those in eleventh and twelfth grades continuing in Lodi until their graduation. The school had also served students from
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. After the current Lodi High School was completed for the 1973-74 school year, the former high school building was repurposed as Thomas Jefferson Middle School.


Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 278th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in ''
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'' magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 286th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 240th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 219th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 199th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.


Athletics

The Lodi High School RamsLodi High School
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participate in the
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, which is comprised of small-enrollment schools in Bergen,
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(NJSIAA). With 646 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. Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Lodi High School was a member of the smaller
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(BPSL). The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 484 to 683 students. The 1939 boys' basketball team won the Group III state championship with a 26–20 victory against South River High School in the final game of the playoff tournament. The football team won the North I Group II state sectional championship in 1992 and 1998 and the North II Group II title in 2005. The 1992 team finished the season with a record of 11-0 after winning the North I Group II sectional title with a 7–6 win against two-time defending-champion Lenape Valley Regional High School in the championship game. The team won the North II Group II state sectional championship in 2005, defeating Chatham High School 21–7 in the tournament final. The baseball team won the North I Group II sectional championship in 2003. The girls' volleyball team qualified for the state tournament in both 2006 and 2007, falling in the tournament's first round both years. Jerry Rinaldi was state wrestling champion (189 lb) in 2003. Keith Dobish was the wrestling state champion (189 lb) in 2006.


Administration

The school's acting principal is Edward Bertolini. His core administrative team includes the vice principal.


Notable alumni

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'', May 13, 2016. Accessed April 4, 2017. "Let us start with Jerry Only, class of '77. Born Gerald Caiafa, Jerry was, from what I can glean, the coolest motherfucker that ever stepped foot in Lodi High School or possibly any school in the history of education.... Glenn Danzig, born Glenn Anzalone, graduated from Lodi High School in 1973, though the only appearance he makes in any yearbooks is this lone Senior portrait."
* Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein (born 1964 as Paul Caiafa, class of 1982), younger brother of Jerry Only who replaced
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(born 1959 as Gerald Caiafa, class of 1977) of the band The Misfits * Rich Skrosky (born 1964), football coach *
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and Danzig * Steve Zing (born 1964 as Steven Grecco), drummers of the bands Mourning Noise,
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, who plays bass on tour with Danzig and fronts his own band, Marra's Drug. * Robert Zoellner (1932–2014; class of 1950), investor and stamp collector who was the second person to have assembled a complete collection of United States postage stampsMiller, Stephen
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, December 31, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2014. "After graduating from Lodi High School in 1950, he attended Lehigh, where he was co-captain of the ice hockey team and enrolled in Air Force ROTC."


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Public high schools in Bergen County, New Jersey