The Northern Valley Regional High School District is a regional school district composed of two public high schools in Bergen County, New Jersey. The regionalized district serves a student population of approximately 2,500 in grades 9-12.
The district comprises the suburban communities of Closter, Demarest, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northvale, Norwood and Old Tappan. Students from Rockleigh attend the district as part of a sending/receiving relationship.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 2,561 students and 223 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.48.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.
The District's Board of Education consists of nine members. Two members are from Closter and Norwood, and one member each from Demarest, Haworth, Harrington Park, Northvale and Old Tappan.
The communities in the district, made up of upper-middle income families, consistently support the school budget, which provides for varied, in-depth college preparatory and career-oriented curricula. Courses range from the remedial to Advanced Placement.
The district's high schools at Demarest and Old Tappan were respectively the 9th and 18th-ranked public high schools in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.
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