As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,801 students and 140.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. There were 769 students (42.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 207 (11.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]
Linden High School has been an IB World School since July 2001, offering students the IB Diploma Programme.[4]
History
Linden High School opened for start of the 1910-11 school year, with a graduating class that included three students.[5] The high school had been located in School No. 1 until a standalone high school building opened to students in 1925, with expansions made to the original building in 1931 and 1960. A plaque in the school honors Lida M. Ebbert, who was the school's principal from when it was established in 1910 until she retired in 1952.[6][7]
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 253rd-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 326th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 284th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[9] The magazine ranked the school 299th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[10] The school was ranked 293rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[11]
Athletics
The Linden High School Tigers[2] compete in the Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Union County and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[12] With 1,202 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.[13] Prior to the 2010 realignment, the school had participated in the Watchung Conference, which included public high schools in Essex, Hudson and Union counties.[14] The football team competes in Division 4 of the Big Central Football Conference, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Warren counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location.[15] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group V North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 1,317 to 5,409 students.[16]
The boys track team won the Group III spring / outdoor track state championship in 1941.[17]
The boys' baseball team won the Group IV state championship in 1979 (against Middletown High School South in the final game of the tournament), and won the Group III title in 1981 (vs. Moorestown High School) and 1982 (vs. Freehold Township High School).[18] The 1979 team finished the season with an 18-6 record after winning the Group IV title with a 2-1 victory on a run scored in the bottom of the ninth in the championship game against Middletown South.[19]
The football team won the North II Group III state sectional title in 1985 and the North II Group V title in 2014.[20] In 2014, the team defeated Elizabeth High School by a score of 27–20 in the tournament final to win the North II Group V championship.[21] The school's rivalry with Union High School, with games played on Thanksgiving Day (or the day before Thanksgiving) for more than 75 years, was listed at 13th on NJ.com's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football". Union leads the rivalry with a 37–32–5 overall record as of 2017.[22]
The boys' bowling team won the overall state championship in 1988 and the Group III title in 2020.[23]
The girls' basketball team won the Group IV state title in 1992 (vs. Piscataway High School), 1993 (vs. East Brunswick High School) and 1994 (vs. Washington Township High School).[24] The 1993 team won the Group IV title with a 71-55 win against East Brunswick in the championship game.[25] The 1994 team won the Group IV title with a 58-52 win against a Washington Township team that came into the championship game undefeated.[26]
John Charles (born 1944, class of 1962), former American football cornerback and safety who played eight seasons in the National Football League.[32][33]
^Linden High School, City of Linden. Accessed April 13, 2022. "Linden High School is in the city of Linden that is a diverse community that is located about fifteen miles away from New York City. In September 1910, Linden High School began its operation as an academic institution, with three students graduating that year."
^Yeats, Lauren Pancurak. Linden, New Jersey, pp. 73-74. Arcadia Publishing, 2002. ISBN9780738523651. Accessed April 13, 2022. "Because of the overcrowding at School No. 1, it was decided that a separate high school shpuld be built, so land was purchased on St. Georges Avenue between Ainsworth and Summit Streets. The cornerstone was laid on October 10, 1924, and the school opened in 1925... Lida M. Hubbert became the principal in 1910 while the high school students were still housed at School No. 1. She was in charge of the entire school system as well, which, at that time, included just 24 students of high-school age. Ebbert and the students moved into the new Linden High School in 1925, and Ebbert was the Linden High School principal until 1952. In 1967, the school was renamed the Lida M. Ebbert Linden High School in her honor. Following Ebbert's death in 1980, a group of her former students and associates contributed to a fund to perpetuate her memory. Her name, in bronze letters, was placed above the front entrance to the school."
^Kinney, Mike. "Big Central revises 2020 football schedule for its shortened inaugural season", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 12, 2020. Accessed April 18, 2021. "The newly formed Big Central Football Conference has released a revised 2020 schedule for its inaugural season.... the BCFC is comprised of schools from Middlesex, Union, Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties."
^Graham, Tony. "Middletown South Beaten by Linden", Asbury Park Press, June 10, 1979. Accessed June 14, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Middletown South High School is still suffering NJSIAA pains.... Yesterday, it was the baseball's team turn for heartbreak in a nine-inning 2-1 loss to Linden in an NJSIAA Group IV championship struggle at Mercer County Park. Linden senior Lou Wisnowski, just recently back in action after suffering a shoulder separation, separated the Eagles (18-9-1) from their title dreams and gave the Tigers (18-6) their first NJSIAA baseball crown."
^Kratch, James. "Juwan Dolbrice leads Linden to first title in 29 years with win over Elizabeth in North 2 Group 5 final", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, December 7, 2014. Accessed December 26, 2016. "Juwan Dolbrice returned a kickoff 75 yards for the game-winning touchdown when Linden defeated Elizabeth, 27-20, in the NJSIAA/SportsCare Institute North Jersey, Section 2, Group 5 final Saturday evening at MetLife Stadium.... The victory ends a 29-year championship drought for Linden, which was playing in its first sectional final since it won North Jersey, Section 2, Group 3 in 1985 for the only sectional crown in school history prior to Saturday night."
^Stypulkoski, Matt. "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 27, 2017, updated May 15, 2019. Accessed December 1, 2020. "13-Linden vs. Union - This will be the 75th time these Union County rivals will meet, though the Thanksgiving Day rivalry has been moved to the day before Thanksgiving.... All-time series: Union leads Linden, 37-32-5"
^Chessari, Joe. "Linden has a bigger goal in mind", The Record, March 14, 1994. Accessed January 21, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Linden won another Group 4 girls basketball championship Sunday afternoon, but the Tigers are saving the real party for next week. The Tigers (22-2) hope to use their 58-52 victory over previously unbeaten Washington Township at the Dunn Center as a preamble to a Tournament of Champions title."
^Staff. "State Basketball: Linden, Pitman, Newark Tech, Newark Eastside claim crowns", USA Today High School Sports, March 16, 2014. Accessed November 20, 2020. "Linden prevailed with authority, posting a 66-53 victory over Trenton Central to claim the NJSIAA Group IV boys basketball title before a crowd of nearly 4,000 fans at Rutgers University’s Louis Brown Athletic Center on Sunday.... Linden claimed its fourth group title, all under coach Phil Colicchio."
^Markus, Robert. "Charles Smiles Now in Glory of Rose Bowl", Chicago Tribune, December 28, 1966. Accessed September 11, 2012. "There may be some who have waited longer for Purdue to get to the Rose Bowl, but none could be happier to be here at last than John Charles.... 'I probably got my scholarship at Purdue as a player, because I was an All-State and All-America on offense at Linden High in New Jersey.'"
^"Jerome A Cohen To Study Abroad", Linden Observer, June 21, 1951. Accessed May 19, 2021. "Jerome Alan Cohen, of 623 North Wood avenue, was awarded the degree of bachelor of arts at the 230th commencement of Yale University.... He is a graduate of Linden High School."
^Gacser, Ava. "Road: Living on the edge", Home News Tribune, July 4, 2004. Accessed December 25, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "I had a bit of a rough childhood, and I think that kind of 3 MTV out at 10 MTV viewers will find adds to my character," Dias says, referring to life growing up in Linden with his single mother. As a Linden High School student, he played flute in the marching band and sang in the choir."
^Staff. "Tamekca M. Dixon named governor to Union County College board", Courier News, December 23, 2016. Accessed September 4, 2019. "At the Dec. 6 meeting of the Union County College Board of Trustees and Governors, Tamecka M. Dixon, former WNBA All-Star, was sworn in to serve as a new governor.... She attended Linden High School, where she was named a High School All-American by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association."
^Berman, Zach. "VCU success story Calvin Duncan has Jersey roots", The Star-Ledger, March 31, 2011, updated March 31, 2019. Accessed May 17, 2020. "Calvin Duncan was 18 in 1979 with a budding basketball career, a laughable transcript and no parents.... Needing improved test scores and a new environment, Duncan transferred from Linden High School to Oak Hill Academy in rural Virginia — as removed from Linden as he figured he could go."
^Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 203, Part 2, p. 242. Accessed April 13, 2012. "Mr. Hendrickson was born Jan. 30, 1923, in Elizabeth. He is a graduate of Linden High School, and has taken property appraisal courses at Middlesex and Ocean County Colleges, and at Stockton State College."
^Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 203, Part 1, p. 260. J.A. Fitzgerald., 1988. Accessed July 12, 2020. "George Hudak, Dem., Linden - Mr. Hudak was born in Linden on March 10, 1935. After graduating from Linden High School he attended Kean College, here he received his degree in education in 1961."
^Sales, Bob. "'I'll Treat Sox Like Men'--Kasko", Boston Globe, October 3, 1969. Accessed July 23, 2011. "Born June 27, 1931 Linden N.J. Home Richmond Virginia Graduate of Linden High School"
^Nowlin, Bill. Eddie Kasko, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed September 4, 2019. "Eddie was born at a hospital in Elizabeth, New Jersey on June 27, 1931, but was raised from birth in Linden, New Jersey, and it was from Linden High School that he graduated in 1949."
^Carter, David, 1952- (2010). Stonewall : the riots that sparked the gay revolution (2nd St. Martin's Griffin ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN9780312671938. OCLC659681252.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Pitman, Gayle E. (May 14, 2019). The Stonewall Riots : coming out in the streets. Sargeant, Fred. New York. ISBN9781419737206. OCLC1083178102.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Staff. "Actor Derek Luke comes home to talk with Snyder High students", The Jersey Journal, December 22, 2008. Accessed July 23, 2019. "Jersey City born-and-raised actor Derek Luke is at Snyder High School, where he attended, this morning to talk to students, a school official said this morning. The star of Biker Boyz, Antoine Fisher and Glory Road, is expected to talk about his life experiences and rough times growing up in Jersey City. Luke attended Snyder, but graduated from Linden High."
^Ross, Ruth. "Linden is In The Heights with Mystic Vision Players", NJ Arts Maven, July 8, 2013. Accessed August 29, 2017. "Jon Rua, who recently originated the role of 'Jesus Pena' on Broadway in Hands On A Hardbody, graduated from Linden High School in 2001 and went on to appear in the ensemble of the premiere off-Broadway production of In The Heights."
^Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 1973, p. 308. J.A. Fitzgerald, 1973. Accessed September 4, 2019. "Chester A. Weidenburner, Linden Judge Weidenburner was born in New York City, December 3, 1913. He graduated from Linden High School, 1931"
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