Ridgefield Park High School

Ridgefield Park Junior-Senior High School
Address
Map
1 Ozzie Nelson Drive

Ridgefield Park
,
Bergen County
,
New Jersey
07660

United States
Coordinates40°51′35″N 74°00′52″W / 40.859861°N 74.014456°W / 40.859861; -74.014456
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtRidgefield Park Public Schools
NCES School ID341380000754[2]
PrincipalMelissa M. Cavins[1]
Faculty87.8 FTEs[2]
Grades7-12
Enrollment1,174 (as of 2022–23)[2]
Student to teacher ratio13.4:1[2]
Color(s)  Scarlet and
  white[3]
Athletics conferenceBig North Conference (general)
North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)
Team nameScarlets[3]
RivalCliffside Park High School
NewspaperScarlet Quill[4]
Websiterpjshs.rpps.net/rpjshs/

Ridgefield Park Junior-Senior High School is a six-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Ridgefield Park, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Ridgefield Park Public Schools.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,174 students and 87.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.4:1. There were 342 students (29.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 151 (12.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]

Students from Little Ferry attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Little Ferry Public Schools that has been in place since 1953.[5][6][7] The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1930.[8]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Staff was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d e School data for Ridgefield Park Jr Sr High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
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  4. ^ Scarlet Quill, Ridgefield Park High School. Accessed May 1, 2022.
  5. ^ James, George. "School Districts' Battle On Tuition Goes to Court", The New York Times, December 16, 1989. Accessed October 17, 2017. "School officials in the borough, Little Ferry, which sends 202 students to the 546-student high school, say a partial audit several years ago raised suspicions that Ridgefield Park has overcharged them by hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years.... Little Ferry, a borough of 1.5 square miles and 9,900 people, has sent its high school students to this neighboring 1.92-square mile village of 12,000 people, since 1953."
  6. ^ Miraglia, Mary K. "Little Ferry Schools Not Responsible For $1.5M Gap In Ridgefield Park", Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights Daily Voice, January 13, 2016. Accessed October 17, 2017. "Ridgefield Park Superintendent Eric Koenig reached out to Little Ferry Superintendent Frank Scarafile after his board meeting Jan. 7 to go over plans for filling the budget shortfall. Koenig assured him Ridgefield Park won't be trying to make any changes to the sending - receiving contract that would impose new tuition in the current year, according to a letter Scarafile sent to his board members."
  7. ^ About Our District, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed October 17, 2017. "Little Ferry's 9–12 students attend Ridgefield Park High School in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey."
  8. ^ Ridgefield Park Junior / Senior High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 14, 2012. Accessed June 5, 2015.