Westwood Regional High School

Westwood Regional High School is a high school of middle-of-the-pack scale in TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, New Jersey, overseen by Westwood Regional School District, serveing 830 students in grades 9 through 12.

Within Westwood Regional School District, which oversees 6 schools and 2,764 students, Westwood Regional High School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Westwood Regional High School reports that White students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Bergen County's rate of about 28%.

With demographic context factored in, Westwood Regional High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.6%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of -6.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Bergen County shows the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Westwood Regional High School is one.

The closest other public school is Washington Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Westwood Regional High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westwood Regional High School has fell 25%, going from 1,111 students in 2018 to 830 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 13% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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