Ridgefield Memorial High School

High school in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States

Ridgefield Memorial High School is a comprehensive community four year public high school located in Ridgefield, in Bergen County, in the U. S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Ridgefield School District. As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 533 students and 45.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. There were 107 students (20.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 22 (4.1% of students) eligible for reduced cost lunch.

Until the school opened, students from Ridgefield had been sent to Cliffside Park High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Nearly $1.9 million (equivalent to $1.886 in 1957 is equivalent to about <calculated amount> in recent years million in ) was allocated for construction of the high school, which would include 28 classrooms and other facilities. The dedication of the school in September 1958 was celebrated with a parade.

The school was the 176th ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 96th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 112th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 135th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 97th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger. com ranked the school 127th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 130 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (86.3%) and language arts literacy (93.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).

The Ridgefield Memorial High School Royals participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which comprises small enrollment schools in Bergen, Hudson, Morris and Passaic counties, and was created following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). Prior to the realignment that took effect in 2010, Ridgefield was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL). With 387 students in grades 10 12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range. The school has 22 varsity sports programs. Interscholastic sports offered at the school include: The team won the North I, Group I title in 2014 with a 2 1 win against Cedar Grove High School in the tournament final. For the 2015 season, the school only fielded a JV football team, after only 13 players participated in a fall football camp. The school will forfeit all of its varsity games, repeating what was done in the 2011 season after the team had lost its first three games. The future of the varsity football program is unclear, but the NJSIAA offers schools the option of creating a co op program with another school.

The school's principal is Janet Seabold. Her administration team includes the vice principal and assistant principal.