Ridgefield Park Public Schools

Ridgefield Park Public Schools
712 Lincoln Avenue
Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660
District information
Grades K-12
Superintendent Dr. John C. Richardson (interim)
Business administrator Matthew J. Paladino
Schools 4
Students and staff
Enrollment 2,247 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 174.8 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 12.85:1
Other information
District Factor Group DE
Website http://www.rpps.net
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-12
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$16,61319$18,891-12.1%
1Budgetary Cost12,055714,783-18.5%
2Classroom Instruction7,360148,763-16.0%
6Support Services1,908202,392-20.2%
8Administrative Cost1,27191,485-14.4%
10Operations & Maintenance1,08521,783-39.1%
13Extracurricular Activities4114426853.4%
16Median Teacher Salary68,4665264,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with 1,800-3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=68

The Ridgefield Park Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from the Village of Ridgefield Park, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's four schools had an enrollment of 2,247 students and 174.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.85:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-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]

Students from Little Ferry attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Little Ferry Public Schools that has been in place since 1953.[4][5]

Awards and recognition

Grant School was recognized by the United States Department of Education's Blue Ribbon Schools Program for the 2009-10 school year, "the most prestigious designation in education". While 49% of students had failed the Elementary School Proficiency Assessment in 2001, by 2010 all of the school's students were deemed proficient by the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJASK).[6] The school was one of 10 in New Jersey to be recognized that year.[7]

For the 2005-06 school year, Ridgefield Park High School was one of 22 schools statewide selected as Governor's School of Excellence Winners, an award given to schools that have demonstrated significant academic improvement over the previous two academic years.[8]

Schools

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's four schools had an enrollment of 2,247 students and 174.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.85:1.[9] Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[10]) are:[11][12]

Elementary schools
High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[17][18]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Ridgefield Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ About Us, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed December 9, 2014. "Our Grade 9-12 Students attend Ridgefield Park High School."
  5. ↑ James, George. "School Districts' Battle On Tuition Goes to Court", The New York Times, December 16, 1989. Accessed August 19, 2013. "School officials in the borough, Little Ferry, which sends 202 students to the 546-student high school, say a partial audit several years ago raised suspicions that Ridgefield Park has overcharged them by hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years.... Little Ferry, a borough of 1.5 square miles and 9,900 people, has sent its high school students to this neighboring 1.92-square mile village of 12,000 people, since 1953."
  6. ↑ DeCicco, Robin. "Grant School merits praise", The Record (Bergen County), September 24, 2010. Accessed March 28, 2011. "Grant Elementary School was recently named a Blue Ribbon School, the most prestigious designation in education, by the New Jersey Department of Education, said Dr. John Richardson, superintendent of Ridgefield Park School District."
  7. ↑ 2010 Blue Ribbon Schools: All Public and Private, United States Department of Education. Accessed July 12, 2011.
  8. ↑ Snapshots of 2005 Governor’s School of Excellence Winners, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 25, 2006.
  9. ↑ District information for Ridgefield Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  10. ↑ School Data for the Ridgefield Park Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  11. ↑ Schools Our Schools, Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  12. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Ridgefield Park Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  13. ↑ Grant Elementary School, Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  14. ↑ Lincoln Elementary School, Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  15. ↑ Roosevelt Elementary School, Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  16. ↑ Ridgefield Park High School, Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  17. ↑ Board of Education, Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  18. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 9, 2014.

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Coordinates: 40°51′42″N 74°01′33″W / 40.86174°N 74.025739°W / 40.86174; -74.025739

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