Lodi High School (New Jersey) Explained

Lodi High School
Logo Alt:This is the logo for Lodi High School.
Principal:Edward Bertolini (acting)
Enrollment:907 (as of 2022–23)
Ratio:13.9:1
Us Nces School Id:340885000550
Teamname:Rams
Colors: Royal Blue and
Orange
Address:99 Putnam Street
Zipcode:07644
Country:United States
Pushpin Map:USA New Jersey Bergen County#USA New Jersey#USA

Lodi High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Lodi, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Lodi Public Schools. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.[1]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 907 students and 65.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.9:1. There were 371 students (40.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 126 (13.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]

History

Students from East Paterson (since renamed as Elmwood Park) had been sent to Lodi High School under a sending/receiving relationship until 1953 and then were shifted to East Rutherford High School starting in 1954 due to lack of capacity at the Lodi school, staying there until Elmwood Park Memorial High School opened in 1957.[3] [4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

The school had also served students from Wallington, New Jersey. 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.[7]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 278th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.[8] 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.[9] The magazine ranked the school 219th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[10] The school was ranked 199th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[11]

Athletics

The Lodi High School Rams[12] participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which is comprised of 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).[13] [14] [15] 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.[16] Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Lodi High School was a member of the smaller Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League (BPSL).[17] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 484 to 683 students.[18]

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.[19] [20]

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.[21] 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.[22] The team won the North II Group II state sectional championship in 2005, defeating Chatham High School 21–7 in the tournament final.[23]

The baseball team won the North I Group II sectional championship in 2003.[24]

The girls' volleyball team qualified for the state tournament in both 2006 and 2007, falling in the tournament's first round both years.[25] [26]

Jerry Rinaldi was state wrestling champion (189 lb) in 2003.[27] Keith Dobish was the wrestling state champion (189 lb) in 2006.[28]

Administration

The school's acting principal is Edward Bertolini. His core administrative team includes the vice principal.[29]

Notable alumni

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.msa-cess.org/school-profile/?oId=0065e00000B8TaC&typ=school-profile Lodi Middle School- High School
  2. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3408850&ID=340885000550 School data for Lodi High School
  3. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98265988/east-paterson-hs-students-to-shift-from/ "2-Town Parley Plans Shift Of H. S. Pupils; East Paterson Board Tours, Okays School In East Rutherford"
  4. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98266495/east-paterson-high-school-plans/ "New East Paterson High Won't Take Outsiders; Board Tells Saddle River Township There Will Be No Room for Out-of-Town Students"
  5. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record-little-ferry-shifts-high-scho/138073771/ "Little Ferry Board Hikes Budget $22,849"
  6. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/525116192/ "Saddle Brook to Open New H. S."
  7. https://www.lodinjschools.org/domain/60 Thomas Jefferson Middle School: Our School
  8. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  9. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 2, 2012.
  10. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed March 31, 2011.
  11. http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/highschoolrankings/top-new-jersey-high-schools-by-rank.html "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank"
  12. https://www.njsiaa.org/schools/lodi-high-school Lodi High School
  13. Mattura, Greg. "Small-school NJIC may debut its own league championship", The Record, January 9, 2017. Accessed August 30, 2020. "The small-school North Jersey Interscholastic Conference may debut its own boys basketball tournament this season, one season after introducing its girls hoops championship. The NJIC is comprised of schools from Bergen, Passaic and Hudson counties and the event offered to the 36 boys teams would serve as an alternative to likely competing against larger programs in a county tournament."
  14. https://www.northjerseyic.org/g5-bin/client.cgi?G5genie=265 Member Schools
  15. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-10/2020-2021-lc-officers-schools.pdf League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021
  16. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/general-classifications-2018-2020.pdf NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020
  17. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724142847/http://www.njsiaa.org/NJSIAA/09leagueaffiliations.pdf New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association League Memberships – 2009-2010
  18. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2024-08/football-2024-2026.pdf NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2024–2026
  19. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/2020-basketball-history_0.pdf NJSIAA Boys Basketball Championship History
  20. https://www.nytimes.com/1939/03/19/archives/state-title-taken-by-west-new-york-memorial-defeats-bloomfield-five.html "State Title Taken by West New York; Memorial Defeats Bloomfield Five, 50-33--Lodi, Hoffman and St. Peter's Win"
  21. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/21-football.pdf NJSIAA Football History
  22. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/06/sports/high-school-football-union-rides-the-wind-to-north-jersey-crown.html "High School Football; Union Rides the Wind To North Jersey Crown"
  23. http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=128997&tclass=North%20II%2C%20Group%20II 2005 Football - North II, Group II
  24. http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=38116&tclass=North%20I,%20Group%20II 2003 Baseball Tournament - North I, Group II
  25. http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=186169&tclass=Group%20II 2006 Girls Volleyball - Group II
  26. http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=246270&tclass=Group%20II 2007 Girls Volleyball - Group II
  27. Ryan, Thomas. "High School State Wrestling Championship Final / Champs And Near-Champs / Absegami's Ryan Bridge And Ryan Goodman Earn State Wrestling Titles In Atlantic City", The Press of Atlantic City, March 17, 2003. Accessed August 14, 2011. "Defending champion Black was upset 6-4 in double overtime by Lodi's Jerry Rinaldi in the 189-pound final."
  28. Morris, Tim. "Parisi second at state wrestling championships", News Transcript, March 15, 2006. Accessed August 14, 2011. "Parisi was writing the final chapter in his illustrious record-breaking career, and looking to become Marlboro's first state champion when he went up against Lodi's Keith Dobish in the 189-pound final.... He lost 3-1 to Dobish on a late, first-period takedown."
  29. https://www.lodinjschools.org/domain/55 Our School
  30. https://drummerszone.com/artists/david-dr-chud-calabrese/5463/profile/?language=5#biography David "Dr. Chud" Calabrese
  31. http://www.drchud.com/archive/index.html Home Page
  32. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/497161541/ "School Notes"
  33. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cunnijo01.shtml Joe Cunningham
  34. Ozzi, Dan. "An Excessively Deep Dive into The Misfits' High School Yearbooks", Vice (magazine), 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."
  35. Staff. "Conference Lists; Independents", USA Today, February 11, 1988. Accessed January 28, 2011.
  36. https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Howie-Janotta/Summary/100903 Howie Janotta
  37. http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~sport/fbskrosky.html Offensive Coordinator Rich Skrosky
  38. Miraglia, Mary K. "Happy Birthday To Lodi's Eerie Von", Garfield-Lodi Daily Voice, August 25, 215. Accessed April 4, 2017. "He began using the nickname Eerie when he was a student at Lodi High School."
  39. Miller, Stephen. "Robert Zoellner, Alpine Associates Founder, Dies at 82", Bloomberg News, 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."

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Lodi High School (New Jersey)".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2025, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.