Livingston High School is a four-year
comprehensive public
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high school
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that serves students in
ninth
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through
twelfth grade
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s from
Livingston
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, in
Essex County,
New Jersey
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, United States, operating as part of the
Livingston Public Schools
The Livingston Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Livingston, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The district consists of six element ...
. It receives all eighth grade graduates from Heritage Middle School. It is the only high school in the Livingston Township. The school has been accredited by the
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
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Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1958.
[Livingston High School]
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Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed February 8, 2018.
Livingston High School offers 28
Advanced Placement
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(AP) courses within eight department areas. The school's
principal is Danielle Rosenzweig; her administration team includes three assistant principals.
[
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,971 students and 181.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a ]student–teacher ratio
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of 10.9:1. There were 24 students (1.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch
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and 11 (0.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[School data for Livingston High School]
National Center for Education Statistics
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. Accessed December 1, 2022.
Building and facilities
In 2011, LHS completed a $50 million renovation and expansion project featuring a new science wing, orchestra room, atrium and a "fitness and wellness center" (Gymnasium with Weight room). The cafeteria, auditorium, digital design room, freshmen locker room, and TV studio were also refurbished. Existing areas of the building, originally built in 1953, was upgraded with new technology including, a new security system, centralized HVAC, a fire safety system as well as new audio-visual equipment for every class room. The project was paid for with the proceeds of a $51.5 million bond issue approved in a 2005 referendum and included the addition and renovation of more than of space.
Awards, recognition and rankings
For the 1997–98 school year, Livingston High School was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence from the United States Department of Education
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, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.
In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 383rd out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 44th among all high schools in New Jersey and 27th among the state's non-magnet schools.
The school was ranked 9th in New Jersey, 3rd among non-magnet schools, and 142nd in the nation in the ''Newsweek'' 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools". The school was ranked 153rd in the nation and 13th in New Jersey on the list of "America's Best High Schools 2012" prepared by ''The Daily Beast'' / ''Newsweek
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'', with rankings based primarily on graduation rate, matriculation rate for college and number of Advanced Placement
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/ International Baccalaureate
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courses taken per student, with lesser factors based on average scores on the SAT
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/ ACT, average AP/IB scores and the number of AP/IB courses available to students. Prior to 2011, Newsweek used a different methodology with calculation derived only from a single factor. In Newsweek's June 8, 2009, issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Livingston High School was listed as the 25th-highest ranked school in New Jersey. The ranking was calculated using one main factor that is the ratio of Advanced Placement
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, International Baccalaureate
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or Cambridge
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tests given at a school.
The school was the 8th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 305 schools statewide in ''New Jersey Monthly
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'' magazine's September 2018 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 24th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 22nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 20th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 14th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.
Livingston High School has a history of success in academics and the arts. Recent accomplishments are:[Board of Education Proclamations Meeting Agenda](_blank)
Livingston School District, June 16, 2008. Accessed April 19, 2009
* Ranked #1 and #2 in the league for the 2012 and 2013 New Jersey Mathematics League contest.
* As of 2015, the school had been placed 1st overall in the Essex County Math League for the 27th year.
* Ranked #4 in the state in the combined school scores of 2011 Merck State Science Day
* One of the top winners at the state-level tournament of New Jersey Science Olympiad
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in 2003–2005, 2007–2010, 2012 and 2013
* Livingston High School has produced 6 semifinalists and a finalist for the Intel Science Talent Search
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between 2008 and 2014
* A semi-finalist for the Google Science Fair
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in 2011
* Robotics team won at 2010-2011 FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship
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* A team competed in Royal Dutch Shell
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Eco-marathon
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Americas among other high-school and university teams. Ranked 6th in 2012 and ranked 8th in 2014 among high school teams in the Americas in the Gasoline Powered Prototype category.
* National Winner in the 2009 Siemens Competition
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in Math, Science and Technology. A regional finalist in 2010.
* A national finalist at 2012 USA Biology Olympiad
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* National Honors since 2010 in United States National Chemistry Olympiad
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. Two of the top twenty students in the US in 2012 were from Livingston High School.
* Regional finalists at the Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition in 2007-08 and 2010-11
* Winners from 2008 to 2012 at Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference. In 2012, national first place in Economics and Sport Management, and seventh place in Entrepreneurship.
* Livingston High School received recognition for its AP Program as a 2006–2007 State High School winner of the Siemen's Award for Advanced Placement
* In 2008, 2010 and 2012, students were selected to be part of the 120-member National High School Honors Orchestra
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that performs biennially at the American String Teachers Association
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National Conference.
* Robotics team won the Think Award for best engineering notebook at the 2015 FIRST Tech Challenge
* Livingston Model United Nations team won two Outstanding Delegate and two Honorable Mentions at Seton Hall University Model United Nations Conference in 2016.
* Two national top 16 debaters at the National Catholic Forensic League
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Grand National Tournament in Public Forum Debate
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*Qualifiers for the Tournament of Champions in Public Forum Debate
Athletics
The Livingston High School Lancers[Livingston High School]
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. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in the Super Essex Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Essex County and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
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. Prior to the NJSIAA's 2010 realignment, the school had competed as part of the Iron Hills Conference
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...
, which included public and private high schools in Essex, Morris
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counties. With 1,434 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,060 to 5,049 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Liberty White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference The North Jersey Super Football Conference is a football-only athletic league of high schools in New Jersey. The 115-team league was formed in 2016.
History
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, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group V North for football for 2018–2020.
The 1972 boys soccer team finished the season with a 20-0 record after winning the Group IV title after defeating Brick Township High School by a score of 2-1 in the tournament final played at Fairleigh Dickinson University
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.
The boys' tennis team won the Group IV state championships in 1976 (defeating Cherry Hill East High School
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in the final match of the tournament), 1977 (vs. Watchung Hills Regional High School
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), 1989 (vs. East Brunswick High School
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), 2001 (vs. Bridgewater-Raritan High School
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), 2002 (vs. Cherry Hill East), 2011 (vs. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South) and 2015 (vs. Westfield High School Westfield High School may refer to:
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), and won the Group III title in 1995 vs. Mainland Regional High School
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. The team won the overall state championship in 1977, defeating Christian Brothers Academy in the tournament final. In 2011, the Livingston boys' tennis team earned their second overall state title when they won the Tournament of Champions over Delbarton School
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, completing a perfect 36–0 season.
The baseball team won the Group IV state championship in 1976 vs. Bridgeton High School
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and in 1980 vs. Steinert High School
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. The team won the Greater Newark Tournament in 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1991, 2009 and 2018. The program's seven titles are the second-most in tournament history. The team won the 2018 Greater Newark Tournament title, defeating Nutley High School
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8-3 in the finals.
The ice hockey team was the overall state champion in 1980 and 1982. The team won the Gordon Cup in 1959, 1960, 1973, 1977 and 1981, and won the McInnis Cup in 2013.
The girls tennis team won the Group IV state championship in 1998 (defeating Cherry Hill High School East
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in the tournament final) and 2000 (vs. West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School
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).
The boys' wrestling team won the North II Group IV state sectional championship in 2003
The girls volleyball team won the Group III state championship in 2004 (against runner-up Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan
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) and won the Group IV title in 2011 (vs. Hunterdon Central Regional High School
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)
The football team won the 2008 North I, Group IV state sectional title, the program's first, with a 28–8 win over Hackensack High School in a game played at Giants Stadium
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. As of 2016, the football coach is Robert Breschard.
The girls' soccer team won the North I Group IV state sectional championship in 2013 with a 1–0 win against Randolph High School in the tournament final.
The girls fencing team was the statewide sabre team winner in 2015-2017.
The boys fencing team won the overall state championship in 2019 and was the sabre team winner that same year.
The men's ice hockey team plays at Richard J. Codey Arena.
Notable alumni
Bold names indicate members of the Livingston Education Foundation's Livingston High School Alumni Hall of Fame[LHS Alumni Hall of Fame](_blank)
Livingston Education Foundation, accessed October 15, 2014
* Jason Alexander
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''.
* Benjamin August (born c. 1979, class of 1997), casting director and screenwriter.
* Hannah August (class of 2001), press secretary for the First Lady
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Michelle Obama
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.
* Shiva Ayyadurai
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(born 1963), MIT
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systems scientist and entrepreneur who developed an email system in 1979 when he was a student at Livingston High School.
* Bruce Beck (class of 1974), sportscaster on WNBC
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.
* Elvina Beck
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(born 1985), founder of the co-living company PodShare.
* Frank Biondi
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, and former Chairman and CEO of Universal Studios
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.
* Steven C. Bondy (class of 1980), diplomat who is the nominee to be the United States Ambassador to Bahrain
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.
* Chris Christie
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(born 1962, class of 1980), former Governor of New Jersey
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.
* Harlan Coben
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(born 1962, class of 1980), ''The New York Times
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'' best-selling author of ''Promise Me'', ''Tell No One'' and ''No Second Chance'',
* Megan Coyne
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* Lucille Davy
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, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education
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.
* Bob Dukiet
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(1948-2009), college basketball
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coach.
* Monica Flores (born 1996), American
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-born Mexican footballer
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who plays as a left-back
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for Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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and for the Mexico women's national team.
* Sabrina Flores (born 1996), American-born Mexican footballer
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who plays as a midfielder
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for Spanish Primera División club Sevilla FC
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and was a member of the Mexico women's national team.
* Christine Grady (born 1952), nurse and bioethicist
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who serves as the head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
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.
* Robert E. Grady
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(born 1959, class of 1975), an American
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venture capital
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ist and investment banker
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, and a senior-level public official.[2011 LHS Alumni Hall of Fame Honorees](_blank)
Livingston Education Foundation, accessed September 15, 2011
* Deborah Gramiccioni
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, lawyer who served as Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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* Chelsea Handler
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(born 1975, class of 1993), American stand-up comedian
Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up.
Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...
and host of '' The Chelsea Handler Show'' and ''Chelsea Lately
''Chelsea Lately'' is an American Late night television, late night Television comedy, comedy talk show created by Brody Stevens and hosted by comedian Chelsea Handler which was broadcast on E! The show debuted on July 16, 2007, and was produced ...
''.
* Nikki M. James
Nikki Michelle James (born June 3, 1981) is an American actress and singer. James has performed in the popular stage musicals ''The Book of Mormon'' and ''Les Misérables'', her role in the former having earned her a Tony Award.
Life and caree ...
(born 1981), Tony-Award-winning actress and singer.
* Leslie Kritzer
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (born May 24, 1977) is an American singer and musical theatre actress.
Life and career
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer was born in Manhattan and raised in Livingston, New Jersey. Her father is Jewish, and her mother is of Puer ...
(born 1977, class of 1995), Broadway actress.
* Alan Krueger
Alan Bennett Krueger (September 17, 1960 – March 16, 2019) was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served ...
(born 1960, class of 1979), economist who served as the 27th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United States on economic policy. The CEA provides much of the empirical resea ...
and is currently the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
.
* Sophia Lin
Sophia Lin is an American film producer. She is known for producing the 2011 film ''Take Shelter'', for which she won Film Independent Spirit Awards' Piaget Producers Award.
Early life
Lin grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, where she attended Livi ...
, film producer.
* Pamela Nadell (born 1951, class of 1969), historian, researcher, author and lecturer focusing on Jewish history.
* Steve Nisenson
Steve H. Nisenson is an American former basketball player, who played the guard position.
He set Hofstra University's all-time scoring record in basketball, which stood for 43 years. He also set the all-time national college season free-throw rec ...
(born c. 1953), basketball player who set Hofstra's all-time scoring record and the national collegiate season free throw percentage record.
* Stephen Oremus
Stephen Oremus (born 1971) is an American musician who has worked on Broadway theatre productions as musical director and as orchestrator. His credits include arranger and orchestrator for the music for ''Avenue Q'', musical director and arranger ...
(born 1971), music supervisor, music director, orchestrator and vocal arranger who won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations
The Tony Award for Best Orchestrations is awarded to acknowledge the contributions of musical orchestrators in both musicals and plays. The award has been given since 1997.
Winners and nominees
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Award records
Mult ...
in 2011 for ''The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which, according to Latter Day Saint theology, contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from 600 BC to AD 421 and during an interlude dat ...
'' and in 2013 for '' Kinky Boots''.[Tony Awards: Look Who Is Nominated](_blank)
Livingston Patch, May 3, 2011. Accessed September 15, 2011. "LHS alumni Stephen Oremus and Nikki M. James receive nod for their work in The Book Of Mormon"
* Colleen Patrick-Goudreau (born 1970, class of 1988), author, speaker and podcaster.
* Glenn K. Rieth (born 1957, class of 1976), the Adjutant General
An adjutant general is a military chief administrative officer.
France
In Revolutionary France, the was a senior staff officer, effectively an assistant to a general officer. It was a special position for lieutenant-colonels and colonels in staf ...
of New Jersey.[
* Robert E. Rose (born 1939, class of 1957), politician who served as the 26th ]Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
The lieutenant governor of Nevada is a constitutional officer in the executive branch, executive branch of government of the U.S. state of Nevada. The lieutenant governor maintains an office in Carson City, Nevada at the Nevada State Capitol and i ...
, from 1975 to 1979.
* Michael Schlossberg
Michael H. Schlossberg (born May 15, 1983) is a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 132nd district since 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Personal life and education
Schlossberg graduated from Li ...
(born 1983), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts.
It ...
, who has represented the 132nd district since 2013.
* Frank Schwindel (born 1992, class of 2010), first baseman
A first baseman, abbreviated 1B, is the player on a baseball or softball team who fields the area nearest first base, the first of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. The first baseman is responsible for the majori ...
for the Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as part of the National League (NL) Central division. The club plays its home games at Wrigley Field, which is located ...
.
* Suzanne Steinbaum (born c. 1968, class of 1986), cardiologist and director of Women's Heart Health at the Heart and Vascular Institute at Lenox Hill Hospital
Lenox Hill Hospital (LHH) is a nationally ranked 450-bed non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, servicing the tri-state area. LHH is one of the region's many unive ...
.
* Richard Tanne
Richard Tanne (born February 4, 1985) is an American filmmaker and actor. His critically acclaimed feature film debut '' Southside with You'' (2016), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received several accolades including a Gotham Awa ...
(born 1985), actor, writer, and producer who appeared in the SyFy
Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. Lau ...
Channel original movie '' Swamp Shark''.
* Roger Y. Tsien (born 1952), co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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and 1968 national winner of the Westinghouse Talent Search.
* David Wildstein
David Wildstein (born September 1961) is an American businessman, Republican Party politician, political blogger, and the founder of the New Jersey political news website Politicker Network. A former mayor of Livingston, New Jersey, he served as ...
(born 1961, class of 1979), former mayor of Livingston who served as a senior official in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, PANYNJ; stylized, in logo since 2020, as Port Authority NY NJ, is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized ...
until his resignation in the midst of the scandal involving traffic lanes closures at the George Washington Bridge
The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting Fort Lee, New Jersey, with Manhattan in New York City. The bridge is named after George Washington, the first president of the United St ...
.
* Stan Yagiello (born 1963), former professional football quarterback
The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...
.
* Danny Zuker
Daniel "Danny" Zuker (born c. 1964) is an American television writer and producer.
Biography
Born to a Jewish family, Zuker graduated from Syracuse University in 1986, where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He is best known for hi ...
(born c. 1964, class of 1982) Emmy award-winning writer and producer for ''Modern Family
''Modern Family'' is an American family sitcom television series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for the American Broadcasting Company. It ran for 11 seasons, from September 23, 2009, to April 8, 2020. It follows the lives of thr ...
''.[Santola, Danielle]
"Donald Trump's Viral Twitter Feud with Livingston High School Graduate Danny Zuker Resurfaces"
TAPinto.net, July 9, 2015. Accessed August 19, 2017. "Now that the wealthy businessman and American television personality Donald Trump has officially announced his presidential bid for the 2016 election, a Twitter feud between him and Livingston High School Class of 1982 graduate Danny Zuker is going viral for the second time in two years."
References
External links
Official site
Livingston Public Schools
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School Data for the Livingston Public Schools
National Center for Education Statistics
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Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools
Public high schools in Essex County, New Jersey