Wood-Ridge High School


Wood-Ridge High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Wood-Ridge, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Wood-Ridge School District. The school was established in 1922.
As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 522 students and 46.4 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1. There were 7 students eligible for free lunch and 23 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Approximately 100 public school students from Moonachie attend Wood-Ridge High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Moonachie School District.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 232nd-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 176th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 137th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 101st in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 143rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Athletics

The Wood-Ridge High School Blue Devils participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which is comprised of small-enrollment schools in Bergen, Hudson County, Morris County and Passaic County counties, and was created following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Prior to the NJSIAA's realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Wood-Ridge was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League. With 327 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 was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 254 to 474 students.
Interscholastic programs available at the high school include:
;Fall
  • Football
  • Volleyball
  • Cheerleading
  • Soccer
  • Tennis
;Winter
  • Bowling
  • Wrestling
  • Indoor track
  • Competition Cheerleading
  • Basketball
;Spring
  • Baseball
  • Softball
  • Track & Field
  • Tennis

    Athletic accomplishments

Baseball

  • NJC champions - 1960, 1966, 1972, 2016
  • Bergen County Tournament champions - 1972
  • BCSL Olympic champions - 1981, 1987
  • Sectional champions, 1960, 1961, 1965 and 1968.

    Boys basketball

  • State champions - 1962, 1963, 1977, 1978, 2011, 2019
  • Group I state champions - 1979
  • BCSL Olympic champions - 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981
  • BCSL National champions - 2003, 2006, 2008
  • NJIC Meadowlands champions - 2011
  • All Century Bergen County - Jimmy Hawthorne
  • All Decade Bergen County - Fred Ketcho

    Girls basketball

  • BCSL Olympic champions - 1978, 1979

    Bowling

  • BCSL Olympic champions - 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2010
  • BCSL National champions - 2005
  • BCCA Tournament champions - 1986, 1997

    Cheerleading (competition)

  • Spirit Unlimited National Champions - 2003
  • Cheer & Dance Extreme National Grand Champions - 2005
  • Americheer International Grand Champions - 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
  • Quest For the Best Champions - 2007, 2008
  • NJCDCA All-Music State Champions - 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015

    Cross country

  • BCSL National champions - 1989

    Football

  • State champions - 1949, 1970, 1977
  • Sectional champions - 1960, 1965
  • BCSL Olympic champions - 1972, 1977, 1986

    Golf

  • BCSL champions - 1976

    Girls soccer

  • BCSL National champions - 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • State sectional champions - 2008

    Softball

  • State champions - 1976, 1977, 1983, 2010
  • BCSL Olympic champions - 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981
  • BCSL National champions - 2009

    Boys tennis

  • BCSL National champions - 2004, 2005, 2009

    Girls tennis

  • BCSL National champions - 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010

    Boys track and field

  • State sectional champions - 2007
  • BCSL National champions - 2008

    Girls track and field

  • BCSL National champions - 2004, 2005

    Volleyball

  • BCSL Olympic champions - 1989, 1991
  • BCSL National champions - 2007
  • NJIC Meadowlands Division Champions - 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • NJIC Conference Tournament Champions - 2018

    Wrestling

  • BCSL Olympic champions - 1976
  • BCSL National champions - 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
  • District 5 champions - 1981
  • District 15 champions - 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007
  • State sectional - 2006, 2007
  • Bergen County Tournament champions - 2007

    NJSIAA Sportsmanship Award

  • 2000-01, 2007–08

    Administration

The school's principal is Silvia Raguseo-Ruiz. Her core administration team includes the assistant principal / athletic director.

Notable alumni