Saint Joseph Regional High School

Saint Joseph Regional High School (known as SJR, St. Joe's or Joe's) is a private, Roman Catholic, college preparatory school for boys, located on a campus in Montvale, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The school operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. St. Joseph Regional High School was founded in 1962 by the Brothers of Saint Francis Xavier. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1968. As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 505 students and 32.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.5:1. The school's student body was 71.5% (361) White, 10.5% (53) Black, 8.7% (44) Hispanic, 6.9% (35) two or more races and 2.4% (12) Asian. In 2014, St. Joseph Regional High School graduated its 7,000th student. The St. Joseph curriculum includes honors and Advanced Placement courses, and has college credit courses available through Saint Peter's University in Jersey City, New Jersey. Academics Saint Joseph Regional offers courses in English, world/US history, science, foreign language, mathematics, theology, and a number of electives, most with accelerated and honor levels. The school offers a number of Advanced Placement and college-level courses. A Virtual High School program provides an opportunity for qualified students to take courses online through an educational consortium endorsed by the United States Department of Education. Students can take classes as diverse as Mandarin Chinese and Marine Biology.