Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest is a comprehensive four-year public high school serving students from several municipalities in Bergen County, New Jersey. The high school serves students from the suburban communities of Closter, Demarest and Haworth. The school is one of two high schools that are part of the Northern Valley Regional High School District, the other being Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,285 students and 82.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.59:1. There were 4 students (0.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and no students eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The high school is overseen by the New Jersey Department of Education and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1959.
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