Graduation Requirements

The minimum statutory and Board of Education requirements to graduate from Leonia High School are as follows:

• Satisfactory completion of 130 credits.

• Satisfactory completion of research papers in both 11^th and 12^th Grades

• Passing grades in these courses and course sequences:

  • Four years of English

  • Four years of Physical Education and Health - 3.75 credits per year that a student is enrolled in a New Jersey Public High School

  • Three years of Social Studies – Modern World History/Geography, US I and US II required

  • Three years of Mathematics- Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II

  • Three years of Science – Includes Biology and Chemistry and/or Physics and/or Environmental Science and a third laboratory/inquiry based science

  • One year of World Language

  • Visual & Performing Arts – 5.00 credits of Art, Music, Drama and/or Dance

  • 21^st Century Life /Careers or Career Technical Education – 5 credits – Family/Consumer Science, Business Administration & Technology, and/or Technology Education

  • Financial Literacy – 2.5 credits