Paramus High School

Paramus High School is a medium-sized secondary school in PARAMUS, New Jersey, part of Paramus Public School District. The school educates 1,153 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 24% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Paramus Public School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,555 students; Paramus High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Paramus High School reports that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 27% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 19% of students at Paramus High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Paramus High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.7%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of -6.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Bergen County shows median household income runs about $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 Paramus High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: East Brook Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Paramus High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Paramus High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 70.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 1,242 students in 2018 compared to 1,153 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 46% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.