| Number of Schools Managed |
1 |
5 |
| Number of Students Managed |
1,266 students |
2,429 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$19,380,000 |
$39,780,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$19,177,000 |
$39,973,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$15,308 |
$16,377 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$15,148 |
$16,457 |
| District Graduation Rates |
97% |
81% |
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- Passaic Valley Regional High School is the name of both a public high school (grades 9–12) in Little Falls, NJ, and the school district for three communities in Passaic County, New Jersey: Little Falls (370 students from a 2000 Census population of 10,855), Totowa (392.5 students from a population of 9,892) and Woodland Park (385 students from a population of 10,987).
- As of the 2006-07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,315 students and 98 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.4.
- The school was the 170th-ranked public high school 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. The school was ranked 166th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
- The Passaic Valley Board of Education consists of nine members, with three members from each municipality.The board generally meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month during the school year and once a month during the summer.
- Extracurricular activities
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The Passaic Valley Regional High School Hornets compete in the Skyline Division of the Northern Hills Conference.
- Passaic Valley participates in "24 Hours Around the World" in which students teleconference with other nations for 24 hours.
- Passaic Valley also is the first high school nationwide to offer an AIDS awareness program to provide students with the knowledge to prevent the spread of the AIDS virus throughout the community.
- Passaic Valley's school colors are green and white. The school mascot, the Hornet, was derived by vote of the first class from The Green Hornet radio series popular in the 1940s.
- Girls' Show
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A main event annually at Passaic Valley is "Girls Show", in which girls from Totowa, Little Falls and West Paterson have the option of which color they want to be (green or white). Typically, Totowa girls go to White and Little Falls girls go to Green. Each year every girl has the option of trying out and participating. The Show is divided into three main categories, Exercise (or "X"), Dance, and Cheer, and three minor categories: Posters, Relays, and Novelties. For the three main events, white and green teams of each category chose a "theme" that dictates their costumes, moves, and music during their performances. These three themes are incorporated into the poster, as well as the "theme" of each years Girls' Show. Passaic Valley Television (PVTV) annually broadcasts a live showing of Passaic Valley's "Girls' Show".
- X
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The X portion of Girls' Show consists of a 10 minute routine performed in a fashion similar to a cheering routine with exercise moves mixed into it. One routine is performed by each team. For the past 11 Years, White Exercise has been victorious over the Greens. As with the other two main categories, each team has an annually different "theme" that dictates their costumes, moves, and music.
- Dance
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The Dance portion of Girls' Show consists of a 10 minute dance routine. For the past 9 Years, Green Dance has been victorious. As with the other two main categories, each team has an annually different "theme" that dictates their costumes, moves, and music.
- Cheer
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The Cheer portion of Girls' Show consists of a 10 minute cheer routine. Until 2009, Green Cheer had an 8 year long winning streak. However, White Cheer had their first (controversial) victory in 2009. As with the other two main categories, each team has an annually different "theme" that dictates their costumes, moves, and music.
- Athletics
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In 2007 and 2008 the girls Varsity Gymnastics team won back to back League and County Championships and finished second in the North 1 section. Led by Coach Jenai Agosta along with 2008 – Sophomore Co-Captains Alexis Arena, Dominique Brown, and Alison Fischbach, they are anticipating a strong showing for the 2009 season.
- On March 6, 2007, the boys' basketball team won the North I, Group III state championship, defeating Wayne Valley High School by 60-48, in a game played at Passaic County Technical Institute. The win was their first ever sectional championship in school history.
- On April 28, 2007, George Abyad won the Penn Relays discus championship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
- In 2006, the football team beat Wayne Valley High School once in the regular season and once in the playoffs, making it to the semi-finals. The team lost to defending North 1 Group 3 champions, Wayne Hills High School by a score of 33-0 in the semifinal round.
- In 2005 and 2006, the girls' field hockey team won back to back county championships led by Coach Cheryl Grande.
- On February 25, 2008 the boy's ice hockey team coached by Gary Steele captured the Nardello Cup, 3-2 against River Dell Regional High School.
- In the 2009 spring season, senior Gerardo Valenzuela of the Boys' Tennis team won the County Championship at 2nd Singles.
- Administration
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Core members of the district's / school's administration are:
- Dr. Viktor J. Joganow - Superintendent (an alumnus of PVRHS)
- Paul Gerber - Business Administrator
- John Wallace - Principal
- Nick Sauter - Vice Principal, Student Activities
- David Settembre - Vice Principal, Discipline
- Timothy Platt - Supervisor of Buildings & Grounds (an alumnus of PVRHS)
- Noted alumni
- David Blaine (born 1973), magician, class of 1991.
- Frank DeCaro (born 1962), class of 1980, writer, entertainer, and satellite radio talk show host; co-wrote and hosted Out at the Movies segments on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
- Laurie Giardino - Class of 1977. Writer & Photographer; Totowa Book of the Dead
- Ralph J. Marra, Jr. (born 1953), Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey since December 2008.
- David Messineo (born 1962), Class of 1980 - Publisher, Sensations Magazine, author of six poetry books (most recent titled Formal). Three-time winner, national American Literary Magazine Awards. Researcher of the "Rediscovering America in Poetry Research Series," which won an award from the New Jersey Institute of Technology for research excellence. The series offers the first comprehensive multicultural collection of American poetry from the years 1565-1700, and is serialized in the 1990 to 1999 issues of Sensations Magazine. At PVHS, he wrote columns for the school newspaper, Valley Echo, and was first published in the school's literary magazine, Images - where he also started his 30-year career as poetry editor in October, 1979. Currently researching American history in the pre-United States days of the 1500s and 1600s.".
- Georgia Routsis Savas (born 1958), Class of 1976 - Writer and Astrologer: Seventeen Total Astrology (HarperTeen); The Oracle Book (Simon & Schuster); The Oracle Of Love (Simon & Schuster).
- External links
- Passaic Valley Regional High School
- Data for Passaic Valley Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics
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