River Dell High School
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| 55 Pyle Street Oradell, NJ 07649 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | "Dedicated to academic excellence and social responsibility." |
| Principal | Lorraine Brooks |
| Asst. principals | Jennifer Chatmon Jeffrey Principe |
| Faculty | 87.9 FTEs |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,067 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.1:1 |
| Color(s) |
Black and gold |
| Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
| Team name | Golden Hawks |
| Website | School website |
River Dell High School is a four-year comprehensive regional public high school, part of the River Dell Regional School District, which is shared with the neighboring communities of Oradell and River Edge in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Located in Oradell, River Dell High School has been a four-year high school since 1994, and is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,067 students and 87.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. There were 9 students (0.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 4 (0.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
During the 1997–98 school year, River Dell High School was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.
The school was the 31st-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 104th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 27th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 37th in 2008 out of 316 schools. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 113th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 16 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (87.5%) and language arts literacy (94.40%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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