The magazine ranked the school 53rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school had been ranked 70th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 53rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The school was the 56th-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. In the 1997–98 school year, it received the Best Practice Award for Citizenship & Character Education in recognition of Teaching Responsibility Through Involvement. The school won the New Jersey Best Practice Award in the 1995–96 school year for Citizenship / Tolerance in recognition of its program in Prejudice Reduction. Verona High School won the New Jersey Star School Award for the 1995–96 school year. The mascot later was redesigned with a dog and a fishing pole due to concerns of school violence and under-age drinking. It was originally created in the 1950s and pictured with a bottle of moonshine and a shotgun.
The school mascot is the Verona Hillbilly, which reflected the remote, rural nature of the community. Īs of the 2020–21 school year, the school had an enrollment of 686 students and 55.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1947. Verona High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade in Verona, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Verona Public Schools. North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)