Park Ridge High School
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Park Ridge High School is a six-year comprehensive community public high school with an integrated two-year middle school located in the borough of Park Ridge in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in seventh through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Park Ridge Public Schools. The school is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education. The school is located on the corner of Park Avenue and Pascack Road in the center of Park Ridge. The school is one of the three public schools in , along with East Brook Elementary School and West Ridge Elementary School, which both serve grades K-6.
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2 Park Avenue , , 07656 United States | |
Coordinates | 41.034469°N 74.042096°W / 41.034469; -74.042096 |
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Type | Public high school / middle school |
Established | 1900 |
School district | Park Ridge Public Schools |
NCES School ID | 341245000710[1] |
Principal | Troy Lederman |
Faculty | 59.8 FTEs[1] |
Grades | 7-12 |
Enrollment | 512 (as of 2022–23)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 8.6:1[1] |
Color(s) | Maroon and white[2] |
Fight song | "Ridgers" |
Athletics conference | North Jersey Interscholastic Conference |
Team name | Owls[2] |
Publication | Imprints (literary magazine)[3] |
Newspaper | Night Watch[3] |
Website | prhs |
Park Ridge High School's building has two sections: the "main" building of three floors and the "A-wing" of two. The main building contains a multipurpose venue known as the "little theater," which hosts arts events such as the annual Middle School Variety Show, including seasonal theatrical productions. The A-wing branches off into two gymnasiums through its lower floor.
As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 512 students and 59.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.6:1. There were 18 students (3.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 3 (0.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]
Park Ridge offers several Advanced Placement (AP) classes, run by the College Board. Average SAT scores for the class of 2013-14 were 528 in Critical reading, 559 in Mathematics and 546 on the Writing component for a composite score of 1633, compared to statewide averages of 496 / 521 / 497 respectively, and a composite score of 1514. There were 59.0% of students who met the standard of a 1550 composite score on the SAT, which College Board research shows to be indicative of college success, vs. 44.6% statewide.[4]