In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by "The Washington Post", the school was ranked 21st in New Jersey and 755th nationwide. The school was ranked 378th in "Newsweek's" 2009 ranking of the top 1,500 high schools in the United States and was the seventh-ranked school in New Jersey, with 2.364 AP tests taken in 2008 per graduating senior and 35% of all graduating seniors passing at least one AP exam; The school was ranked 1,166th nationwide in 2008. In "Newsweek's" 2007 rankings of the country's top 1,200 high schools, Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest was listed in 1045th place, the 32nd-highest ranked school in New Jersey.