Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan 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 Harrington Park, Northvale, Norwood, and Old Tappan. Students from Rockleigh attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship. 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 Demarest.
The school was opened in March 1962 to address overcrowding in the district's original school at Demarest that opened in 1955. When it was first established, the school served students from Harrington Park, Northvale, Norwood and Old Tappan, as well as those from the northern portion of Closter.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,402 students and 90.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.44:1. There were 7 students (0.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and none 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 1965.
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