Passaic Valley Regional High School District | |
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100 East Main Street Little Falls, NJ 07424 |
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District information | |
Grades | 9-12 |
Superintendent | Dr. JoAnn Cardillo |
Business administrator | Colin Monahan |
Schools | 1 |
Students and staff | |
Enrollment | 1,355 (as of 2014-15) |
Faculty | 104.8 FTEs |
Student-teacher ratio | 12.9:1 |
Other information | |
District Factor Group | FG |
Website | http://www.pvhs.k12.nj.us |
Passaic Valley Regional High School | |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 1940 |
Principal | Ray Rotella |
Vice principal | David Settembre |
Asst. principal | Patricia Lynch |
Grades | 9-12 |
Color(s) |
Green and white |
Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
Team name | Hornets |
Passaic Valley Regional High School is the name of both a public school district and regional high school for students from Little Falls, Totowa and Woodland Park, three communities in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,355 students and 104.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1. There were 268 students (19.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 64 (4.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.
The Passaic Valley Board of Education consists of nine members, with three members elected from each municipality. The board generally meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month during the school year and once a month during the summer.
The school was the 225th-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 202nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 144th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 170th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 166th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.