Lakeland Regional High School

Set in WANAQUE, New Jersey, Lakeland Regional High School is a reasonably sized senior high, overseen by Lakeland Regional High School District. It teaches 823 students across grades 9 through 12.

Lakeland Regional High School sits inside Lakeland Regional High School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Lakeland Regional High School shows that White students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Passaic County as a whole is about 41% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Passaic County's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lakeland Regional High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.8%; actual is 39.1%, a gap of -18.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Passaic County) records that the typical household earns roughly $87,522 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Passaic County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,237 students), of which Lakeland Regional High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wanaque Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lakeland Regional High School. On composite proficiency, Lakeland Regional High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lakeland Regional High School has declined 10%, going from 911 students in 2018 to 823 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 68% across the same window.

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