Ramapo Rises, Indian Hills Falls in NJ Monthly High School Rankings

FLOW-area high schools are headed in different directions in the latest NJ Monthly Magazine rankings.

Ramapo came in as the state's 17th best school in 2012 — on the magazine's last poll two years earlier it was ranked No. 19.

Indian Hills dropped 8 spots from the 35th position in 2010 to the 43rd spot this year.

Here's how the two schools compared:

% of Faculty
with Master's Degree or Doctorate 

NJ Monthly's ranking of 328 public high schools is released every other year.

The rankings will be featured in the September issue, which hits newsstands on Aug. 28. (Although they've been spotted in several stores around Bergen County.) Paroachial schools are not included, though charter schools make the list.

NJ Monthly Magazine made changes to its methodology this year, including a new graduation-rate calculation, eliminating student/computer ratio as a factor and increasing the weighting for data on test results, according to an article announcing the top public high schools.

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