| Wyckoff School District | |||||
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| Superintendent: | Richard Kuder | ||||
| Business Administrator: | Alan Reiffe | ||||
| Address: | 241 Morse Avenue Wyckoff, NJ 07481 |
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| Grade Range: | K-8 | ||||
| School facilities: | 5 | ||||
| Enrollment: | 2,348 (as of 2007-08)[1] | ||||
| Faculty (in FTEs): | 139.0 | ||||
| Student–teacher ratio: | 16.9 | ||||
| Web site: | http://www.wyckoffps.org | ||||
| Ind. | Per Pupil | District Spending |
Rank (*) |
K-8 Average |
%± vs. Average |
| 1 | Comparative Cost | $12,343 | 42 | $12,420 | -0.6% |
| 2 | Classroom Instruction | 7,413 | 40 | 7,588 | -2.3% |
| 6 | Support Services | 1,879 | 59 | 1,771 | 6.1% |
| 8 | Administrative Cost | 1,556 | 60 | 1,411 | 10.3% |
| 10 | Operations & Maintenance | 1,444 | 44 | 1,462 | -1.2% |
| 13 | Extracurricular Activities | 48 | 14 | 97 | -50.5% |
| 16 | Median Teacher Salary | 59,055 | 70 | 54,453 | |
| Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2] *Of K-8 districts with 751+ students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=88 |
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The Wyckoff School District is a community public school district, serving students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Wyckoff in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 2,348 students and 139.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.9.[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]
High school students may attend either Indian Hills High School located in Oakland or Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes. Both high schools are part of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District.[4]
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For the 1998-99 school year, Eisenhower Middle School was named a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve.[5] In the 2003-04 school year, it received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.[6]
For the 2005-06 school year, the Wyckoff School District was recognized with the "Best Practices Award" by the New Jersey Department of Education for its "A Reading Af'fair' to Remember" Language Arts Literacy program at Abraham Lincoln School.[7]
The schools in the district (with 2007-08 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:
Wyckoff is a member of the Northwest Bergen Council for Special Education. The Council is composed of twelve member districts which work together to provide special education services on a regional basis. Wyckoff is responsible for four of the special education classes in the Northwest Council. Special Education classes are located in Sicomac School.
The first school in the town was a one-room school built on Wyckoff Ave. in 1869 and used until 1906; demolished in 1906. The first George Washington School had been used but was burned in a fire in 1911. Prior to 1929, high school students attended Central High School in Paterson, before the Board of Education voted to send students to Ramsey High School (New Jersey) in Ramsey instead.
Core members of the district's administration are:[9]