River Dell Regional School District
The River Dell Regional School District is a regional school district serving students in seventh through twelfth grades from the Bergen County, New Jersey communities of River Edge and Oradell. As of the 2017-18 school year, the district and its two schools had an enrollment of 1,614 students and 136.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to  allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J. History. In October 1975, a Superior Court judge sentenced to jail 75 of 200 striking members of the River Dell Education Association for violating a back-to-work order that he had issued earlier in the month. The judge also mandated that the striking employees contribute $250 towards a scholarship fund, President Ronald Reagan spoke at the high school on June 21, 1984, where he advocated on behalf of a drinking  age of 21 as a minimum standard. Awards and recognition. During the 1997-98 school year, River Dell High School was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive. The school was the 31st-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. For the 2001-02 school year, River Dell Middle School was named a "Star  School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve. Schools. Schools in the district (with 2017-18 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are: Administration. Core members of the district's administration are: