| Definition of Terms |
Ridgefield Park High School |
| School Level |
High school |
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| Grades Offered |
Grades 7 - 12 |
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| County |
Bergen County, NJ |
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| Total Students |
1063 students |
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| % Male / % Female |
53% /
47% |
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| Total Classroom Teachers |
85 teachers |
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| Students by Grade |
| Grade 7 - 148 students | | Grade 8 - 145 students | | Grade 9 - 215 students | | Grade 10 - 188 students | | Grade 11 - 198 students | | Grade 12 - 151 students | | Grade Not Listed - 18 students |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio |
1:13 |
1:13 |
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| Students by Ethnicity |
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| % American Indian |
n/a |
n/a |
| % Asian |
11% |
7% |
| % Hispanic |
41% |
15% |
| % Black |
3% |
17% |
| % White |
45% |
61% |
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| Additional Student Information |
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| % Eligible for Free Lunch |
14% |
16% |
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| % Eligible for Reduced Lunch |
10% |
4% |
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| % Migrant Students Enrolled |
n/a |
n/a |
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| School District Name |
Ridgefield Park Township School District |
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| Number of Schools Managed |
4 |
5 |
| Number of Students Managed |
2,011 students |
2,429 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$28,003,000 |
$39,780,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$27,213,000 |
$39,973,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$13,925 |
$16,377 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$13,532 |
$16,457 |
| District Graduation Rates |
96% |
81% |
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- Ridgefield Park High School is a six-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Ridgefield Park, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Students from Little Ferry attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Little Ferry Public Schools that has been in place since 1953.
- As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,063 students and 85.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.5.
- The school was the 180th-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 161st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
- Athletics
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The Ridgefield Park High School Scarlets compete in the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) American Conference, which includes private and public high schools located in Bergen County and Hudson County. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).
- Awards and recognition
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For the 2005-06 school year, Ridgefield Park High School was one of only 22 schools statewide selected as Governor's School of Excellence Winners, an award given to schools that have demonstrated significant academic improvement over the previous two academic years.
- A team of students was one of five finalists in the 2004 New Jersey Business Idea Competition Winners at Fairleigh Dickinson University representing the Northern Region, which covers Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic, Sussex and Warren Counties. Three other RPHS teams were semi-finalists.
- History
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In 1916, Ridgefield Park High School was the subject of a groundbreaking ruling by the New Jersey Commissioner of Education, who ruled that teachers could remove their jackets while in class. A principal and teacher at the high school had been removed from his duties, based on charges against him that included "conduct unbecoming a teacher" related to the removal of his coat while teaching one day. The charges were dismissed and the teacher was reinstated.
- In March 2006, alumnus Gregory Olsen (RPHS '62), an entrepreneur who paid $20 million to become the world's third paying space tourist visited his alma mater to share his experiences in space.
- Popular culture
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13 of the 17 students featured in the 1978 documentary film Scared Straight! were from Ridgefield Park High School. Over 300 students, nearly a quarter of the school's enrollment, had voluntarily participated in the program at Rahway State Prison (now formally known as East Jersey State Prison), in which the students were given a hard look at the "physical and psychological brutality of prison life." The program was credited with contributing to a sharp drop in teen-aged crime in Ridgefield Park from 1976 to 1978.
- Ridgefield Park High School was also featured on TruTV's The Principal's Office.
- Administration
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Core members of the school's administration are:
- Eric Koenig, Principal
- Michelle Aughey, Assistant Principal
- Michael Raimondi, Assistant Principal
- Notable alumni
- Robert A. Lewis (1918-1983), co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
- Steve Lonegan (1956-), former mayor of Bogota, New Jersey from 1995-2007.
- Ozzie Nelson (1906-1975), band leader and TV star.
- Gregory Olsen (born 1945), entrepreneur and scientist who in October 2005 became the third private citizen to make a paid trip into space with Space Adventures, Ltd.
- External links
- Ridgefield Park High School
- Ridgefield Park Public Schools
- Data for the Ridgefield Park Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
- History of Ridgefield Park High School
- Source: Wikipedia; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
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| About This Zip Code (07660) |
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| Population (Approximate) |
12,873 people |
8,215,963 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree |
31% |
35% |
| Population Average Age |
37 years old
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36 years old |
| Average Household size |
2.6 persons
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2.6 persons |
| Median Household Income |
$51,825
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$55,509 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household |
4.9 rooms |
5.6 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure |
66 years old |
47 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting |
53% / 47% |
62% / 38% |
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