Cliffside Park School District

Cliffside Park School District
Superintendent: Michael J. Romagnino
Business Administrator: Toni Ann Nebbia
Address: 525 Palisade Avenue
Cliffside Park, NJ 07010
Grade Range: K-12
School facilities: 6
Enrollment: 2,655 (as of 2008-09)[1]
Faculty (in FTEs): 207.6
Student–teacher ratio: 12.8
District Factor Group: B
Web site: http://www.cliffsidepark.edu
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending
Rank
(*)
K-12
Average
 %± vs.
Average
1 Comparative Cost $12,494 31 $13,632 -8.3%
2 Classroom Instruction 8,036 55 8,035 0.0%
6 Support Services 1,586 14 2,166 -26.8%
8 Administrative Cost 1,294 17 1,379 -6.2%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,173 4 1,674 -29.9%
13 Extracurricular Activities 364 37 258 41.1%
16 Median Teacher Salary 60,504 50 57,597
Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with 1,801-3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=70

The Cliffside Park School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Cliffside Park, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

Students from Fairview attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Fairview Public Schools.[3]

As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 2,655 students and 207.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "B", the second lowest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[4]

Contents

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[5]) are:

Preschool
Elementary Schools
High School

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[6][7]

References

  1. ^ a b District information for the Cliffside Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 21, 2011.
  2. ^ Comparative Spending Guide March 2009, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 28, 2009.
  3. ^ Profile 2009 - 2010, Cliffside Park High School. Accessed March 21, 2011. "Cliffside Park is a residential community of approximately 23,000 residents and a geographical size of one square mile. It is a suburb of and less than one mile from New York City. The neighboring town of Fairview is a K – 8 district and Cliffside Park is the receiving district for Fairview’s 9 – 12 students. Fairview has a population of approximately 13,300."
  4. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 27, 2009.
  5. ^ Cliffside Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 21, 2011.
  6. ^ Board of Education, Cliffside Park School District. Accessed March 21, 2011.
  7. ^ Bergen County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.

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