Ramapo Ridge

Ramapo Ridge is a junior high of average-sized scale in MAHWAH, New Jersey, one of the schools within Mahwah Township Public School District, educateing 642 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 6 schools in Mahwah Township Public School District (2,698 students total), Ramapo Ridge accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Ramapo Ridge logs that 58% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 16% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Ramapo Ridge has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 14% 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 south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ramapo Ridge sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.5%; this one delivers 57.3%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Bergen County put the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ramapo Ridge is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).

The closest other public school is Lenape Meadows, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ramapo Ridge comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 63.5%.

Ramapo Ridge operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 700 students in 2018 compared to 642 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 72% to 58% over that span.

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