school year's seniors being given priority. In July 2020 the district board of education voted to eliminate both the PVHS "Indians" and the "Cowboys" at Pascack Hills High School. In March 2021, the Board of Education ratified new team names that had been selected by a vote of students and staff at each school, with Pascack Hills being renamed the Broncos and Pascack Valley adopting the Panthers as its new team name. Awards and recognition In the 2000–01 school year, Pascack Valley Regional High School was recognized with the Best Practices Award by the New Jersey Department of Education for its "Senior Projects/Senior Alternate Assessment Program". Pascack Hills High School was the 7th-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, after having been ranked 18th in the state out of 328 schools in 2012; Pascack Valley High School was ranked 39th in 2014 and 73rd in 2012. The Pascack Pi-oneers, a district-wide high school robotics team, has won several regional awards. Schools Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are: Pascack Hills High School opened in Montvale in 1964 and served 823 students in grades 9-12 from Montvale and Woodcliff Lake. Timothy Wieland, Principal Charleen Schwartzman, Assistant Principal Pascack Valley High School in Hillsdale opened in 1955 and served 1,141 students in grades 9-12 from Hillsdale and River Vale. John Puccio, Principal Thomas Gallione, Assistant Principal Christine Pollinger, Assistant Principal Park Academy is a therapeutic middle school program with 23 students in grades 4-8 Administration Core members of the district's administration are: Dr. Daniel Fishbein, Ed.D., Interim Superintendent of Schools Yas Usami, Business Administrator / Board Secretary Board of education The district's board of education, with nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the day-to-day operation of the district. Seats on the board of education are allocated based on the population of the constituent districts, with three assigned