Northern Valley Regional High School District
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The Northern Valley Regional High School District is a regional school district comprised of two public high schools in Bergen County, New Jersey. The regionalized district serves a student population of approximately 2,500 in grades 9-12. The largest minority enrollment is Korean American.
The district is comprised of the suburban communities of Closter (559 students), Demarest (343 students), Harrington Park (265 students), Haworth (218 students), Northvale (247 students), Norwood (348 students), and Old Tappan (357 students). Students from Rockleigh attend the district as part of a sending / receiving relationship.
The District's Board of Education consists of nine members. Two members are from Closter and Norwood, and one member each from Demarest, Haworth, Harrington Park, Northvale and Old Tappan.
The communities in the district, made up of upper-middle income families, consistently support the school budget, which provides for varied, in-depth college preparatory and career-oriented curricula. Courses range from the remedial to advanced placement.
The district's high schools at Demarest and Old Tappan were respectively the 16th and 25th-ranked public high schools in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools[1].
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[edit] Extracurricular activities
The school administration and faculty support and encourage student participation in the variety of sports, social and academic club activities. In each school, there are over 23 sports, which include participation at the freshman, junior varsity, and varsity level (46 teams) in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League, as well as 60 co-curricular activities.
[edit] Schools
- Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest serves 1,113 students from Closter, Demarest, and Haworth.
- Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan serves 1,199 students from Harrington Park, Northvale, Norwood, Old Tappan, and Rockleigh.
Both also have an extremely small minority of people from towns that normally go to the other schools.
Both High Schools in the district are accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and by the New Jersey Department of Education.
Both High Schools have a (combined) total of 12 ethnically non-white people, IE: Mexican, African American, etc.
[edit] Administration
- Dr. Jan Furman - Superintendent
- Mr. Ray Jacobus - Assistant Superintendent for Business
- Judith Margolis - District Director of Guidance
- Strawberry Clock - King of the Portal
[edit] Noted alumni
- Cory Booker, elected Mayor of Newark, New Jersey on May 9, 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ Top Public High Schools in New Jersey, New Jersey Monthly, September 2006
[edit] External links
- Northern Valley Regional High School District
- Northern Valley Regional High School District's 2004-2005 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- National Center for Education Statistics data for the Northern Valley Regional High School District
