Ridgefield Park High School | |
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Location | |
1 Ozzie Nelson Drive Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660 |
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Type | Public high school |
School district | Ridgefield Park Public Schools |
Principal | James Donohue |
Asst. principals | Michael Kilmurray Michael Raimondi |
Faculty | 94.0 FTEs |
Grades | 7-12 |
Enrollment | 1,258 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 13.4:1 |
Color(s) |
Scarlet and white |
Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
Team name | Scarlets |
Website | School website |
Ridgefield Park High School is a six-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Ridgefield Park, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Students from Little Ferry attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Little Ferry Public Schools that has been in place since 1953. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1930.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,258 students and 94.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.4:1. There were 379 students (30.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 118 (9.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
For the 2005-06 school year, Ridgefield Park High School was one of 22 schools statewide selected as Governor's School of Excellence Winners, an award given to schools that have demonstrated significant academic improvement over the previous two academic years.
A team of students was one of five finalists in the 2004 New Jersey Business Idea Competition Winners at Fairleigh Dickinson University representing the Northern Region, which covers Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic, Sussex and Warren Counties. Three other RPHS teams were semi-finalists.