Indian Hills High School

As an intimate senior high in OAKLAND, New Jersey, Indian Hills High School hosts 668 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Indian Hills High School sits 28% smaller than that benchmark.

Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,834 students. Indian Hills High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Indian Hills High School shows that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 3% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Indian Hills High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.3%, the actual is 57.1%, a residual of -7.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bergen County put median household earnings sit near $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Indian Hills High School is one.

The closest other public school is TOPS Early Learning Childhood Learning, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Indian Hills High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 65.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 40%: 1,109 students in 2018 compared to 668 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 78% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 in 2025.

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