Wallkill Valley Regional High School

Wallkill Valley Regional High School is a four-year public high school and regional school district in New Jersey serving students in grades 9-12 from four municipalities in Sussex County, approximately forty miles northwest of New York City. The school is located in Hamburg.

The school is composed of four constituent districts which include Franklin Borough, Hardyston Township, Hamburg Borough and Ogdensburg Borough. Each of these communities supports its own independent K-8 elementary school district. The combined population of the constituent districts is approximately 14,000. The total area covered by all districts is 42.9 square miles (111 km2).

As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 780 students and 56.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.71:1. There were 70 students (9.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 20 (2.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

The school has two Vice Principals and seventy certified full and part-time faculty members, of which 64% hold a Masters Degree.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth 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.

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