

In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 417th out of 500 best high schools in the country it was ranked 45th among all high schools in New Jersey and 28th among the state's non-magnet schools.
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The school was called "Wayne High School" until Wayne Hills High School opened in September 1966, at which time the word "Valley" was added to the original school's name in order to differentiate between the two. History īefore the school opened in 1952, students from Wayne had attended Pompton Lakes High School. There were 74 students (6.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 5 (0.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. Īs of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,204 students and 115.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.5:1. Wayne Valley's school colors are blue and white. The school is also accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1954.

The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of the two secondary schools of the Wayne Public Schools, the other being Wayne Hills High School. Wayne Valley High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school, in Wayne, in Passaic County, in the U.S. North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)
