The school was the 165th-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. The school had been ranked 162nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 178th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 182nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 179th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 188th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the two components of the High School Proficiency Assessment, mathematics and language arts literacy.
Athletics
The Lyndhurst High School Golden Bears compete in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference Meadowlands Division, which includes private and public high schools located in Bergen County and Hudson County, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 544 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North II, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 508 to 770 students in that grade range. Prior to the NJSIAA's realignment that took place in the fall of 2010, Lyndhurst was part of the Bergen County Scholastic League. The school operates as the host school / lead agency for joint wrestling and boys' / girls' swimming programs with North Arlington High School, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2018-19 school year. The football team won the NJSIAA North I Group II state sectional championship in 1983. The boys baseball team won the North I Group III state sectional championship in 1964 and 1966, and won the North I Group II state sectional title in 1970. During the spring 2008 baseball season, the baseball team won its first ever Group I state championship with a 7-3 win against Robbinsville High School, its first group championship in 40 years, since they won the Group III state championship. On their way to the state championship they won the North 2 Group 1 state sectional championship over Weehawken High School, and the BCSL National Division Title. Led by Patrick Rono who won the 2010 individual title, the Golden Bears men's cross country team won their first North Jersey Group I sectional title, and would repeat as champions in 2013 and 2014. 2010 marked the first time the Bears qualified for the Bergen County Meet of Champions as a team. Rono finished seventh at the Foot Locker Northeast Regional in Sunken Meadow State Park in Kings Park, New York; The finish earned a spot to Foot Locker Nationals, held in Balboa Park in San Diego, making Rono the first male runner from North Jersey to earn an invitation in two decades. Rono finished 24th in a race with 40 of the nation's elite runners.
Administration
The school's principal is Laura Vuono. Her administration team includes the assistant principal.
Jimmy Smagula, actor who has appeared in The Sopranos, Bones, Grey's Anatomy, Parks and Recreation and Rizzoli & Isles as well as films such as The Island and The Producers.
