Northern Valley, New Jersey

Northern Valley is the name for a region of New Jersey, United States, contained within Bergen County. The region consists of fifteen municipalities: Alpine, Bergenfield, Closter, Cresskill, Demarest, Dumont, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northvale, Norwood, Old Tappan, Rockleigh, and Tenafly.

Several area entities are named after the valley:

  • Northern Valley Suburbanite, a local newspaper (does not serve Bergenfield and Dumont)
  • Numerous businesses in the region have Northern Valley in their name

Geography

Northern Valley is physically situated between the Palisades to the east and the Hackensack River to the west. The New Jersey-New York border and Rockland County border it to the north, while the municipalities of Fort Lee, Leonia, and Teaneck border it to the south.

Education

Every municipality in Northern Valley except one has its own public school district up to 8th grade. The exception is Rockleigh, which sends its students to attend Northvale Public Schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship. There are several municipalities that only have K-8 districts and send their students either to a regional high school district or to another district as part of a sending/receiving relationship for grades 9-12. The school districts are as follows:

K-8

9-12

  • Northern Valley Regional High School District; attended by students from Closter, Demarest, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northvale, Norwood, and Old Tappan, with students from Rockleigh attending as part of a sending/receiving relationship

K-12

Northern Valley is also home to many private schools. The most notable ones are as follows:

40.96278°N 73.97163°W / 40.96278; -73.97163


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