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Ridgewood NJ, Niche described Ridgewood High School as a top rated, public school located in RIDGEWOOD, NJ. It has 1,775 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 13 to 1. According to state test scores, 66% of students are at least proficient in math and 86% in reading. Niche gave RHS and overall rating of A+ .
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Not number 1. Any more.
Ridgewood has never been ranked 1.
True. I think they were ranked #7 when I moved here in the early 1990’s
At least we keep dropping like a stone.
Bailey a nice addition to the guidance dept. though he will need time to elevate the college process by adding experienced counselors who have relationships with university regional reps
Pfffft…
Yet it only costs taxpayers
125 million a year.
Yup, rich and STILL stupid no matter what they paid Niche.
At $20,000+ per student, we should expect better. Just the truth. Only $18,000 per student if we bus them all to Don Bosco.
Don Bosco is a terrible school at any price.
Subpar performance getting our students accepted to Ivy League schools.
RHS once ranked nationally. It now competes miserably in the State. Still, they do have the best cars in the parking lot and a very glamorous graduation ceremony.
The more we adapt woke education curriculum and hire “diverse” people the higher we will rank. It has nothing to do this academics which by the way are nothing special. I thought RHS is nothing special in terms of education when my daughter was there but she never wanted to hear it. Now in her Junior year in college she fully admits that education received at RHS was just ordinary.
We certainly can, and should, do better. We need to be proud of the published rankings, but they’re nothing to rest upon. Time to engage the parents, teachers, and staff to kick it up a few more notches. Perhaps we need a change of thinking at the top. A culture of excellence. Leonard Fitts may be fine as an interim, it is what he does, but it’s hard to imagine he is the best of the best.
Niche includes the magnet schools. When those are excluded, RHS ranks top 10.
Did anyone actually look at the rankings?
The two areas that dragged us down the most were Diversity and Facilities.
You have to look at the criteria first.
Plus, as someone has already mentioned, 14 of the schools above us are Magnet schools.
But let’s not let the facts get in the way of our negativity. That just doesn’t fit the agenda.