Cresskill Public Schools

Cresskill Public Schools
Superintendent: Dr. Loretta Bellina
Business Administrator: Antoinette Kelly
Address: 1 Lincoln Drive
Cresskill, NJ 07626
Grade Range: K-12
School facilities: 4
Enrollment: 1,690 (as of 2007-08)[1]
Faculty (in FTEs): 103.0
Student–teacher ratio: 16.4
District Factor Group: I
Web site: http://www.cresskillboe.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-12
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1 Comparative Cost $11,708 10 $13,632 -14.1%
2 Classroom Instruction 6,946 16 8,035 -13.6%
6 Support Services 1,830 25 2,166 -15.5%
8 Administrative Cost 1,469 19 1,379 6.5%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,105 2 1,674 -34.0%
13 Extracurricular Activities 359 11 258 39.1%
16 Median Teacher Salary 57,010 32 57,597
Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with 0-1800 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=45

The Cresskill Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serve students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Cresskill in Bergen County, New Jersey. The district is governed by a Board of Education and administered by a Superintendent of Schools, a School Business Administrator, and three principals.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 1,690 students and 103.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.4.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second highest 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.[3]

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Awards and recognition

In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Cresskill High School was listed in 209th place, the fifth-highest ranked school in New Jersey; the school had been ranked 202nd in the 2006 survey and in 93rd in 2005.[4]

Cresskill High School was the 15th-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.[5]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2007-08 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[6]) are:

Elementary Schools (K-5)
Middle Schools (6-8)
High School (9-12)

Administration

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

References

  1. ^ a b District information for the Cresskill School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 5, 2009.
  2. ^ Comparative Spending Guide March 2009, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 28, 2009.
  3. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 7, 2009.
  4. ^ "The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools", Newsweek, May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007.
  5. ^ Top Public High Schools in New Jersey, New Jersey Monthly, September 2006.
  6. ^ Cresskill Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 15, 2009.
  7. ^ Bergen County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.
  8. ^ Office of the Superintendent, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed October 31, 2009.
  9. ^ Business Office, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed October 31, 2009.

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