Alpine is a small rural community offering prestige and privacy, an easy commute to the Financial Capital of the world and three major airports, an excellent school system, extremely low taxes and an extraordinary sense of community pride. The average home sale price is ranked amongst the highest in the nation.
Education
The Alpine Public School District is a community school district serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade at Alpine School. As of the 2017–18 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 150 students and 24.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.0:1.
For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students attend Tenafly High School in Tenafly as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Tenafly Public Schools under which the Alpine district paid tuition of $14,392 per student for the 2011–12 school year. As of the 2017–18 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,193 students and 104.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1. Public school students from the borough, and all of Bergen County, are eligible to attend the secondary education programs offered by the Bergen County Technical Schools, which include the Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, and the Bergen Tech campus in Teterboro or Paramus. The district offers programs on a shared-time or full-time basis, with admission based on a selective application process and tuition covered by the student's home school district
Transportation
Rockland Coaches provides service along Route 9W to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on the 9T / 9AT routes and to the George Washington Bridge Bus Station on the 9 and 9A routes.