Tenafly Public Schools
| Tenafly Public Schools | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superintendent: | Lynn Trager | ||||
| Business Administrator: | Louis Mondello | ||||
| Address: | 500 Tenafly Road Tenafly, NJ 07670 | ||||
| Grade Range: | K-12 | ||||
| School facilities: | 6 | ||||
| Enrollment: | 3,593 (as of 2009-10)[1] | ||||
| Faculty (in FTEs): | 305 | ||||
| Student–teacher ratio: | 11.78 | ||||
| District Factor Group: | I | ||||
| Web site: | http://www.tenafly.k12.nj.us | ||||
| Ind. | Per Pupil | District Spending | Rank (*) | K-12 Average | %± vs. Average |
| 1 | Budgetary Cost | 14,091 | 74 | 13,632 | 3.4% |
| 2 | Classroom Instruction | 8,876 | 82 | 8,035 | 10.5% |
| 6 | Support Services | 1,558 | 24 | 2,166 | -28.1% |
| 8 | Administrative Cost | 1,586 | 91 | 1,379 | 15.0% |
| 10 | Operations & Maintenance | 1,709 | 69 | 1,674 | 2.1% |
| 13 | Extracurricular Activities | 357 | 98 | 258 | 38.4% |
| 16 | Median Teacher Salary | 61,300 | 67 | 57,597 | |
| Data from NJDoE 2009 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-12 districts with 3,501+ students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=105 | |||||
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.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 3,593 students and 305 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.78.[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]
Awards and recognition
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 be recognized with the award that year.[4]
Tenafly High School was the 3rd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 3rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.[5] The high school was the 2nd ranked public high school in the state out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.[6]
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[7]) are:
- Elementary Schools (K-5)
- Mackay School - 356 students
- Maugham School - 380 students
- Smith School - 367 students
- Stillman School - 401 students
- Middle School (6-8)
- Tenafly Middle School - 802 students
The Tenafly Middle School 8th grade string orchestra, conducted by 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 public middle school orchestra in the United States. The orchestra competed in Kansas City on March 8, 2006, and received a Superior rating. A new section of the school was opened in the Fall of 2007.
- High School
- Tenafly High School had 1,240 students in ninth through twelfth grades. Students from the neighboring community of Alpine attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Alpine Public School.[8]
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for the Tenafly School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
- ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 8, 2009.
- ↑ "Schools selected as No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools in 2005". Retrieved May 2, 2006.
- ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed May 1, 2011.
- ↑ Top Public High Schools in New Jersey, New Jersey Monthly, September 2006
- ↑ Tenafly Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Alvarado, Monsy. "Alpine to keep sending students to Tenafly", The Record (Bergen County), April 4, 2003. Accessed January 2, 2008. "ALPINE - The borough's high school students will continue to attend Tenafly High School under a new contract approved by the Board of Education this week."
- ↑ Bergen County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.
- ↑ Superintendent of Schools, Tenafly Public Schools. Accessed January 26, 2012.
- ↑ Business Office, Tenafly Public Schools. Accessed January 26, 2012.
External links
- Tenafly Public Schools
- Tenafly Public Schools's 2010–11 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Tenafly Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
- History of Englewood, NJ's attempted school district regionalization with Tenafly, NJ
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