Westwood Regional High School

Westwood Regional High School
Address
Map
701 Ridgewood Road

, ,
07676

United States
Coordinates40°58′52″N 74°03′44″W / 40.981009°N 74.062298°W / 40.981009; -74.062298
Information
TypePublic high school
MottoCrescat Scientia (Let knowledge grow from more to more)[1]
Established1967
School districtWestwood Regional School District
NCES School ID341782000906[2]
PrincipalFrank Connelly
Faculty83.9 FTEs[2]
Grades9-12
Enrollment841 (as of 2022–23)[2]
Student to teacher ratio10.0:1[2]
Color(s)  Scarlet
  Black and
  white[3]
Athletics20 teams
Athletics conferenceBig North Conference
Team nameCardinals[3]
RivalRiver Dell High School
NewspaperThe Cardinal Chronicle
YearbookCardinal Chronicle[4]
Websitewww.wwrsd.org/o/westwood-hs

An aerial view of the school's campus

Westwood Regional High School (formerly Westwood Regional Jr./Sr. High School) is a four-year comprehensive regional public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Borough of Westwood and the Township of Washington, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Westwood Regional School District.[5][6] Beginning in the 2019–20 school year, students in eighth grade who had previously attended the then junior-senior high school began attending the new Westwood Middle School.[7]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 841 students and 83.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.0:1. There were 58 students (6.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 28 (3.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]

  1. ^ Open House Presentation - January 20, 2015, Westwood Regional High School. Accessed January 6, 2019. "Crescat Scientia - Let knowledge grow from more to more"
  2. ^ a b c d e School data for Westwood Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NJSIAAprofile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cardinal Chronicle, Westwood Regional High School. Accessed March 15, 2022.
  5. ^ Westwood Regional School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed August 7, 2017. "The Westwood Regional School District is the only K-12 regional school district in Bergen County, serving approximately 2,740 students from the Borough of Westwood and the Township of Washington."
  6. ^ Community and District Profiles, Westwood Regional School District, May 28, 2004. Accessed June 20, 2016. "The Westwood Regional School District serves the Borough of Westwood (population 10,400) and the Township of Washington (population 9,800). These two communities are located approximately fifteen miles northwest of midtown Manhattan."
  7. ^ Snyder, John. "First 8th Graders at 'True' Westwood Middle School in 2020", The Press Group, December 23, 2019. Accessed November 17, 2021. "Superintendent of School Raymond Gonzalez confirmed at the Dec. 19 meeting of the Westwood Regional Board of Education that the Regional Middle School expansion project is on track for the addition of eighth grade in September 2020.... The work will establish a grades 6–8 'true' middle school and a grades 9–12 high school, modernize and centralize middle school offerings, and improve academic and emotional supports."