Westwood Regional Jr./Sr. High School | |
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Address | |
701 Ridgewood Road Township of Washington, NJ 07676 United States |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Motto | Crescat Scientia (Let knowledge grow from more to more) |
Established | 1967 |
School district | Westwood Regional School District |
Principal | Frank Connelly |
Asst. principals | Shelley LaForgia Christopher Mello |
Faculty | 95.1 (on FTE basis) |
Grades | 8-12 |
Enrollment | 1,024 (as of 2013-14) |
Student to teacher ratio | 10.8:1 |
Color(s) |
Scarlet Black and White |
Athletics | 20 teams |
Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
Team name | Cardinals |
Newspaper | The Cardinal Chronicle |
Website | School website |
Westwood Regional Jr./Sr. High School is a five-year comprehensive regional public high school that serves students in eighth through twelfth grades from Borough of Westwood and the Township of Washington, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Westwood Regional School District.
As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,024 students and 95.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. There were 62 students (6.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 17 (1.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 106th-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 58th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 92nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 56th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 81st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 128th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 9 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.8%) and language arts literacy (95.9%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).