125:. Accessed March 29, 2022. "When six classrooms were added to the north side in 1912, the school opened to high school students. It also operated as a receiving high school for surrounding communities for many years—students from communities with no high school attended school here. With the construction of nearby Tenakill Grammar School in 1929, this school became the Closter Junior-Senior High School from 1929 to 1955."
186:, December 26, 2017. Accessed March 29, 2022. "The Closter High School on Durie Avenue operated from 1912 until 1955 when the Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest opened. The Closter Jr./Sr. High School was then renamed the Village Middle School and housed the sixth, seventh and eighth grades until it closed in 1996."
147:. "Alex Gaston former major league baseball star, will lend a big-time atmosphere to tonight's festivities in honor of Closter High School's championship baseball team at Tenaklll Junior High School.... Also invited are the Boards of Education from Norwood, Northvale, and Rockleigh, Closter High School's three sending districts."
203:, June 17, 2019. Accessed March 29, 2022. "Before this, students from the seven Northern Valley towns attended high school in Closter (that building became Village Middle School after 1955), Dumont, or Tenafly.... Kids from Closter, Demarest and Haworth remained at NVD, the system that continues to this day."
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