Wayne Valley High School
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551 Valley Road Wayne, NJ 07470 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | "The Tribe with Pride" |
| Established | 1952 |
| School district | Wayne Public Schools |
| Principal | Kenneth J. Palczewski |
| Asst. principals | David Drozjock Brian Faehndrich Jennifer Grimbilas Keith J. Parian Timothy Rymer |
| Faculty | 113.0 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,332 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.8:1 |
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Blue and white |
| Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
| Team name | Indians |
| Publication | Smoke Signals |
| Website | School website |
Wayne Valley High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school, in Wayne, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of the two secondary schools of the Wayne Public Schools, the other being Wayne Hills High School. Wayne Valley has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1954. The school is also accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education. Wayne Valley's school colors are blue and white, and Wayne Valley is the home of the Indians, "The Tribe with Pride", and is known for its "tradition of excellence".
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,332 students and 113.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. There were 92 students (6.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 29 (2.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 417th out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 45th among all high schools in New Jersey and 28th among the state's non-magnet schools.
The school was the 91st-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 64th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 63rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 46th in 2008 out of 316 schools. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 122nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease 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 (85.9%) and language arts literacy (94.6%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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