April 21,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood High School ranks #25 in the state, according to the U.S. News and World Report. The rankings were published on April 19. Click here to go to the RHS write-up.
Ridgewood High School is ranked 25th within New Jersey. Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® coursework and exams. The AP® participation rate at Ridgewood High School is 64 percent. The student body makeup is 49 percent male and 51 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 29 percent. Ridgewood High School is the only high school in the Ridgewood Public Schools.
U.S. News & World Report enlisted the help of social science research firm RTI International to compile its rankings. They measured schools using four key metrics:
Math and reading proficiency for all students
Testing proficiency for disadvantaged students
Graduation rates
College readiness via Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate test data.
Ridgewood boasts a 13:1 student-to-teacher ratio and has 64 percent of its students participate in AP Exams.
Neighbors Tenafly placed 13th and Glen Rock 14th.
$102mn and were #25?
That’s…underwhelming.
VOR SPENDS 102 million per annum in at 25 th and was smoked by Glen Rock school in 14 th place..?.
Let us give the teachers everything they want so we can continue on our down hill run.
I remember many years ago when we moved here, my realtor showing me some publication that ranked the HS as being one of the best in the country. So now we’re 25. IN THE STATE.
And Shiela Brogan has been there how long ? Amazing !
RHS is YUGE at almost 1700 students. I don’t understand residents who say they moved here for the schools. A super large school and ranked 25th is Ridiculous for the amount of taxes we pay. Look at Chatham that in my estimated average pays around 30% less in taxes.
5.45 great comments 1700 is about to grow big time once the developers have their way with our old way of limiting multi family residencies. Built them and they shall come fm as far away as china
Look at the criteria and the rankings are probably based way too much things like LGBTQ friendliness and other mind-numbingly stupid aspects of school administration that only a committed prog socialist would consider important.
Throw money at the problem. That should do it.
-Thed
Bergen County Academies is #5
Tenafly #13
Glen Rock #14
Chatham (a comparable community) #16
Summit #19
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Link to Full List:
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-jersey/rankings?int=c0b4c1
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also this ranking only looks at public schools.. not catholic schools.
RHS – Ranked #404 Nationally
Yay! We are one of the the top 500 schools in America!
Tradition of Excellence!!
Say it loud. Say it proud.
$100+ million… money well spent..
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Bergen Academies – NJ #5 – Nationally #92
Tenafly – NJ #13 – Nationally #294
Glen Rock – NJ #14 – Nationally #303