Tenafly Public Schools
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The Tenafly Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Tenafly, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
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[edit] Schools
Schools in the district (with 2004-05 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
- Elementary Schools (K-5)
- Mackay School - 352 students
- Maugham School - 388 students
- Smith School - 332 students
- Stillman School - 403 students
- Middle School (6-8)
- Tenafly Middle School - 732 students
The Tenafly Middle School 8th grade string orchestra, conducted by Mrs. Erika Boras Tesi, won first place in the American String Teachers Association's National Orchestra Festival. The orchestra now has the title of number one middle school orchestra in the United States. The orchestra competed in Kansas City on March 8, 2006, and received a Superior rating.
- High School
- Tenafly High School has 967 students in ninth through twelfth grades. Tenafly High School was awarded the prestigious Blue Ribbon School Award, Awarded by the United States Department of Education at a special assembly to the Tenafly High School Community on September 20, 2005. Tenafly was the only high school in New Jersey and one of 38 public high schools in the U.S. to receive the 2005 Blue Ribbon School Award.[1]
Tenafly High School was the 2nd ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools[2].
Professional poet Gary Whitehead teaches English at Tenafly High School. He is the author of The Velocity of Dust (Salmon/Dufour Editions), After the Drowning (Finishing Line Press), A Cool, Dry Place (White Eagle Coffee Store Press), and Walking Back to Providence (Sow's Ear Press). He is a frequent contributor to the Christian Science Monitor.
[edit] Notable Graduates
- Hope Davis, actor
- Lesley Gore, singer
- Ed Harris, actor
- Jon-Erik Hexum, actor
- Sarah Lewitinn alias Ultragrrrl, Spin writer, blogger, downtown socialite
[edit] References
- ^ Schools selected as No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools in 2005. Retrieved on May 2, 2006.
- ^ Top Public High Schools in New Jersey, New Jersey Monthly, September 2006
[edit] External links
- Tenafly Public Schools
- Tenafly Public Schools's 2005-06 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- National Center for Education Statistics data for the Tenafly Public Schools
- History of Englewood, NJ's attempted school district regionalization with Tenafly, NJ
