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Enrollment
1,694
High
DISTRICT 1,598 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY)·NCES 362781003779
RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL
400 VIOLA RD, SPRING VALLEY, NY 10977 · (845) 577-6400 · Rockland County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,694 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
127 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
1,403 students
DISTRICT 85% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 482 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 469 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 362 | 21% |
| Grade 12 | 381 | 22% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
49.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
24.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 24.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 20.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL
RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (33.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,694 | 82.8% | 33.7% |
| SPRING VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL SPRING VALLEY | 1,501 | 86.0% | 31.8% |
| ATMOSPHERE ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 1,481 | 88.5% | 58.7% |
| BRENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN CAMPUS BRENTWOOD | 1,287 | 82.1% | 48.5% |
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL YONKERS | 1,176 | 88.1% | 43.0% |
| LONG ISLAND CITY HIGH SCHOOL LONG ISLAND CITY | 1,639 | 87.1% | 37.7% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Rockland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #1,033 of 1,135 | #9 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #970 of 1,109 ▲ 33 | #10 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #967 of 1,135 ▲ 47 | #9 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,694 | #72 of 1,216 | #2 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #867 of 1,058 | #9 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.0% | #719 of 1,070 | #10 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.8% | #393 of 1,167 | #2 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.0% | #68 of 339 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,694
+226 (+15%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 1,401
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 12.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,694 | 127 | 13.3:1 | 83% (1,403) |
| 2023-24 | 1,655 | 120.8 | 13.7:1 | 83% (1,369) |
| 2022-23 | 1,603 | 122.1 | 13.1:1 | 83% (1,327) |
| 2020-21 | 1,468 | 120 | 12.2:1 | 81% (1,189) |
| 2017-18 | 1,389 | 96 | 14.5:1 | 79% (1,091) |
| 2015-16 | 1,333 | 87 | 15.3:1 | 68% (906) |
| 2010-11 | 1,390 | 113 | 12.3:1 | 54% (748) |
| 2000-01 | 1,663 | 122 | 13.6:1 | 46% (757) |
| 1990-91 | 1,401 | 104 | 13.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL.
About RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL
RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school with its address in SPRING VALLEY, New York. It is open to students in grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,694 students. High schools in New York have about 668 students on average; enrollment here is 154% higher.
EAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY) (14 schools, 10,424 students) runs RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL.
More than half of enrollment at RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL is Hispanic: 77%. The next largest groups are 18% Black. The school's Hispanic share is 57 points above the 21% share among Rockland County residents. The diversity index for RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL is 37%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL has 127 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.3:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in New York is 11.0:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 83% at RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL. The gap from the 48% average for public schools in Rockland County is 35 points.
RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 33.7% and a predicted 44.5%.
In Rockland County, home to about 341,883 people, median household income comes to about $109,959, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Rockland County's 66 public schools enroll about 41,335 students and include RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL.
KAKIAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 33.7% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 8 nearby schools.
RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 15% rise, from 1,468 to 1,694. Federal data show the ratio rising from 12.2:1 to 13.3:1.
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Rockland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
341,883
Census ACS
Median income
$109,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
41,335 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in EAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY)
- SPRING VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,501 students
- KAKIAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMiddle · 822 students
- POMONA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 689 students
- SUMMIT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 659 students
- CHESTNUT RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 637 students
- FLEETWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 609 students
Other schools in SPRING VALLEY
- SPRING VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,501 students
- KAKIAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMiddle · 822 students
- HEMPSTEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 459 students
- EAST RAMAPO EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER AT KAKIATElementary · 386 students
Other Ramapo High schools
One other US public school is named Ramapo High. RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Ramapo High SchoolFRANKLIN LAKES, NJ · 1,166 students
Nearby schools
- KAKIAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 822
- EAST RAMAPO EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER AT KAKIAT0.4 mi · 386
- HEMPSTEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 459
- GRANDVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 609
- ELMWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 598
- LIME KILN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 584
Frequently asked questions
About RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOLHow large is RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL?
RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,694 students in grades 09-12.
Is RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL have?
RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL employs 127 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL?
At RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 77% Hispanic, 18% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
RAMAPO HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by EAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY).
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.