Pascack Valley High School
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Pascack Valley High School
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| 200 Piermont Avenue Hillsdale, NJ 07642 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1955 |
| School district | Pascack Valley Regional High School District |
| Principal | Thomas DeMaio |
| Asst. principals | John Puccio Debbie Squiccimarri |
| Faculty | 93.6 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,185 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.7:1 |
| Color(s) |
Kelly green and white |
| Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
| Team name | Indians |
| Website | School website |
Pascack Valley High School (PVHS) is a four-year comprehensive regional public high school located in Hillsdale in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of two secondary schools in the Pascack Valley Regional High School District. Pascack Valley High School serves the residents of both Hillsdale and neighboring River Vale, while its counterpart Pascack Hills High School serves the communities of Woodcliff Lake and Montvale. As part of its 1:1 eLearning Initiative, the school has provided a laptop to every student, teacher, and administrator for educational use.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,185 students and 93.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1. 27 students (2.3% of enrollment) were eligible for free lunch and 16 (1.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 39th-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 73rd of 328 schools in the state in 2012, after being ranked 23rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 25th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 23rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 49th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of four positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (91.8%) and language arts literacy (98.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). In 2013, Pascack Valley earned a place on the AP District Honor Roll along with Pascack Hills and 475 schools across the US and Canada.
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