Northvale Public Schools

Northvale Public School
441 Tappan Road
Northvale, NJ 07647
District information
Grades K-8
Superintendent Michael Pinajian
Business administrator Deborah Trainor (interim)
Schools 2
Students and staff
Enrollment 567 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 45.9 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 12.35:1
Other information
District Factor Group FG
Website http://www.northvaleschool.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$17,76227$18,891-6.0%
1Budgetary Cost15,8854414,15912.2%
2Classroom Instruction9,435448,6599.0%
6Support Services2,764562,16727.5%
8Administrative Cost1,985621,54728.3%
10Operations & Maintenance1,509261,612-6.4%
13Extracurricular Activities1774710470.2%
16Median Teacher Salary67,5005461,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64

The Northvale Public School is a community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Northvale in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Students from Rockleigh, a non-operating school district, attend the district as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[3][4]

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's then two schools had an enrollment of 567 students and 45.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.35:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-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.[5]

Students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, together with students from Harrington Park, Norwood and Old Tappan,[6] along with students from Rockleigh who attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[7] The school is one of the two schools of the Northern Valley Regional High School District, which also serves students from the neighboring communities of Closter, Demarest and Haworth at the Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest.[8]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[9]) were:

As of the 2012-13 school year, the two schools were combined to create the Northvale Public School, as part of an effort to reduce costs associated with running two separate schools that share a common campus and corridor.[10]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[11]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Northvale School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Rockleigh Public Services, Borough of Rockleigh. Accessed April 8, 2011.
  4. ↑ 13 Non-Operating School Districts Eliminated, New Jersey Department of Education press release dated July 1, 2009. Accessed April 8, 2011.
  5. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ Home page, Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 4, 2011. Accessed October 14, 2014. "Welcome to Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, home of the Golden Knights. Although our students reside in four different towns; Harrington Park, Northvale, Norwood, and Old Tappan, once they arrive here they are treated as one."
  7. ↑ Rockleigh Public Services, Rockleigh, New Jersey. Accessed October 14, 2014. "Rockleigh Borough is a 'sending district' in that there is no public school within the Borough, except for three special-education schools administered by Bergen County.... The Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, a nationally ranked high school, receives older children from Rockleigh Borough."
  8. ↑ Northern Valley Regional High School District 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 21, 2015. "Our long standing successful and cost efficient Pre-K-12 consortium remains an exemplar model of shared services including seven local Pre-K-8 districts that send their students to the regional high schools: Closter, Demarest, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northvale, Norwood and Old Tappan."
  9. ↑ School Data for the Northvale Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  10. ↑ Harris, Chris. "Giving Northvale school a new name isn't so easy", The Record (Bergen County), September 9, 2012. Accessed October 14, 2014. "A decision to consolidate and rename the borough's two public schools has raised the ire of several residents.... Changing the name of the Northvale schools — which last year were the Thomas Jefferson Elementary School and the Nathan Hale Middle School — to Northvale Public School was not done lightly, Superintendent Michael Pinajian said."
  11. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  12. ↑ Superintendent, Northvale Public Schools. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  13. ↑ Business Administrator, Northvale Public Schools. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  14. ↑ Principal, Northvale Public Schools. Accessed October 14, 2014.

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