River Dell Regional High School

River Dell Regional High School, a mid-sized four-year high school in ORADELL, New Jersey, run under River Dell Regional School District, educates 1,025 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

River Dell Regional School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,598 students. River Dell Regional High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, River Dell Regional High School records that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, River Dell Regional High School has 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 2% of students at River Dell Regional High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bergen County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, River Dell Regional High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.0%; this one delivers 70.7%.

Around the school, 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. Across Bergen County's 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), River Dell Regional High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: River Dell Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), River Dell Regional High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 63.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 1,046 students in 2018 compared to 1,025 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 55% across the same window.

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