Ridgewood High School

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Ridgewood High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Ridgewood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Ridgewood Public Schools.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,714 students and 133.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1. There were 18 students (1.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 4 (0.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsDuring the 1986-87 school year, Ridgewood High School was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.The school was the 28th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 28th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 20th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 7th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 24th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.