[6] Prior to that, students from Hillsdale, Montvale and Woodcliff Lake had attended Park Ridge High School as part of sending/receiving relationships.

[9] On January 29, 2008, the school district announced that following surgery on her knee, then-principal Dr. Barbara Sapienza had become comatose and that her recovery was uncertain.

[13] The letter referenced "incidents of racism" at the school, including a swastika being drawn on a hallway wall and white supremacy hand signs being flashed at sporting events.

Media in northern New Jersey and nearby New York City picked up on the report, and the Anti-Defamation League visited with the school superintendent on Thursday, May 21.

[14] During a Board of Education meeting on November 5, 2018, Gundersen addressed two Swastikas previously found on September 27 and October 18, 2018, both being located in separate boys' bathrooms.

Pascack Valley High School has a wide range of facilities and a large campus, including a track (with a new surface as of the spring of 2006), surrounding an artificial turf football field.

The campus underwent major renovations in 2005 that added several wings and a total overhaul of the athletic complex and auditorium.

https://team1676.comhttps://team1676.com==Extracurricular activities== Like most other area high schools, Pascack Valley offers a wide range of co-curricular and extracurricular activities, including:[28] Pascack Valley has an award-winning theatre program, most recently winning the 2018 Metro Award for “Outstanding Production Number- Coffee Break".

Pascack Valley High School performs two shows each year, a fall play in November as well as a spring musical in March.

The Pascack Valley High School Panthers[2][3] compete in the Big North Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Bergen and Passaic counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).

[47] Jasper was inducted by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association into its Bollinger High School Hall of Fame in 2006.

[48] The 2010 girls' basketball team was NBIL champions and won the North I, Group III state sectional title, defeating top-seed Teaneck High School 51–47.

[49] Jasper earned his 900th win in January 2013, joining Bob Hurley as the only other coach in state history to reach that mark.

[51] The boys cross country running team won the Group III state championship in 1973.

The girls tennis team won the Group II state championship in 2003, defeating Haddonfield Memorial High School in the final match of the tournament.

[57] The ice hockey team won the McMullen Cup in 2004 with a 5–0 win in the tournament final against Northern Highlands Regional High School.

[58][59] The girls volleyball team won the Group II state championship in 2005, defeating Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest in the final match of the tournament.

[60] The girls' soccer team won the Group II state championship in 2005 as co-champion with Haddonfield Memorial High School.

The Pascack Valley Regional Dance Team was on the cover of the February 2008 issue of The Record's Sports Magazine.

In 2008 they took home two first-place trophies in the Large Pom and Small Team Performance categories at the NDA National Championship.

The student council also discussed rumors that New Jersey would be banning Native American-related mascots, and eventually it was decided that taking up the issue by choice rather than force was the right thing to do.

[citation needed] In 2015, the school district decided to change the logo to one using the initials "PV" while deferring a decision on the mascot name.

[65] In June 2020 the district board of education voted to eliminate both the PVHS "Indians" and the "Cowboys" at Pascack Hills High School.

[2] In October 2021, a school committee reached a consensus on two mascot choices, leaving the final selection to students and staff.