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Rancocas Valley Regional High School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Rancocas Valley Regional High School
Rancocas Valley Regional High School is a large senior high in MOUNT HOLLY, New Jersey, run under Rancocas Valley Regional High School District. The school caters to 1,928 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 108% larger than the state mean of about 929.
Operationally, Rancocas Valley Regional High School answers to Rancocas Valley Regional High School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.
Looking at the student body, Rancocas Valley Regional High School reports that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Black, 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Rancocas Valley Regional High School has 136 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Rancocas Valley Regional High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Rancocas Valley Regional High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.6%; actual is 29.7%, a gap of -15.9 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Burlington County indicate median household earnings sit near $108,111, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Rancocas Valley Regional High School is one of 139 public schools in Burlington County (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students).
Gertrude C. Folwell Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rancocas Valley Regional High School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 35.4%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 2,052 students in 2018 compared to 1,928 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 56% to 40%.
In the discussion threads here, members of the Rancocas Valley Regional High School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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