Englewood Cliffs Public Schools
| Englewood Cliffs Public Schools | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superintendent: | Dominic Mucci | ||||
| Business Administrator: | Mary Welfel | ||||
| Address: | 143 Charlotte Place Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 |
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| Grade Range: | K-8 | ||||
| School facilities: | 2 | ||||
| Enrollment: | 445 (as of 2009-10)[1] | ||||
| Faculty (in FTEs): | 49 | ||||
| Student–teacher ratio: | 9.08 | ||||
| District Factor Group: | I | ||||
| Web site: | http://www.englewoodcliffs.org | ||||
| Ind. | Per Pupil | District Spending |
Rank (*) |
K-8 Average |
%± vs. Average |
| 1 | Comparative Cost | $18,462 | 64 | $12,420 | 48.6% |
| 2 | Classroom Instruction | 10,888 | 64 | 7,588 | 43.5% |
| 6 | Support Services | 3,930 | 64 | 1,771 | 121.9% |
| 8 | Administrative Cost | 1,554 | 31 | 1,411 | 10.1% |
| 10 | Operations & Maintenance | 2,063 | 59 | 1,462 | 41.1% |
| 13 | Extracurricular Activities | 4 | 1 | 97 | -95.9% |
| 16 | Median Teacher Salary | 59,560 | 53 | 54,453 | |
| Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2] *Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64 |
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The Englewood Cliffs Public Schools is a community public school district that serves children in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Englewood Cliffs, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 445 students and 49 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.08.[1]
Based on 2010 data for the Upper School, 61.6% of students speak English as their primary language at home, with Korean (14.4%) being the most common non-English language. 1.1% of students are classified as having limited English proficiency.[3] 48.7% of students in the school are classified as Asian / Pacific Islander.[4]
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.[5]
For high school, public school students attend Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Englewood Public School District that dates back to 1967.[6] With few Englewood Cliffs students attending Dwight Morrow, a school with a majority African-American student body, officials from Englewood Cliffs have made repeated efforts dating back to the mid-1980s to end the relationship with Englewood and switch over to have students attend Tenafly High School, a practice that many parents were doing by paying tuition to attend the Tenafly school.[7] In 2003, the New Jersey State Board of Education overturned an injunction that prohibited other public schools from accepting students from Englewood Cliffs on a tuition basis, arguing that the establishment of the magnet Academies@Englewood program within Dwight Morrow will allow the Englewood district to draw white students to the district.[8]
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[edit] Schools
Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[9]) are:
- North Cliff School with 182 students in grades K–2
- Upper School with 263 students in grades 3–8
[edit] Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[10]
- Dominic Mucci, Superintendent of Schools
- Mary Welfel, Board Secretary / Business Administrator
[edit] References
- ^ a b District information for the Englewood Cliffs School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 18, 2011.
- ^ Comparative Spending Guide March 2009, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 28, 2009.
- ^ Upper School 2010 School Report Card, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 18, 2011.
- ^ Upper School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 18, 2011.
- ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 7, 2009.
- ^ Dwight Morrow High School 2010 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 18, 2011. "Dwight Morrow High School serves Englewood and Englewood Cliffs."
- ^ Narvaez, Alfonso A. "BID TO AVOID A MOSTLY BLACK JERSEY SCHOOL", The New York Times, Accessed July 18, 2011. "Officials in the white community, Englewood Cliffs, have petitioned the State Education Commissioner to allow them to send their children to predominantly white Tenafly High School and end a 20-year-old relationship with Englewood's Dwight Morrow High School.Englewood officials oppose the move and have asked the Commissioner to prevent Tenafly from enrolling students from Englewood Cliffs, which does not have its own high school.... Englewood Cliffs has had an agreement with Englewood since 1967 whereby its students attend Dwight Morrow, where 81 percent of the 887 students are black or Hispanic students; many white parents in Englewood send their children to private or parochial schools."
- ^ Newman, Maria. "As an Injunction Ends in Englewood, an Era in School Desegregation Closes as Well", The New York Times, April 4, 2003. Accessed July 18, 2011. "A decision by the State Board of Education this week puts an end to an injunction that has helped define education in Englewood and Englewood Cliffs, N.J., since 1990. The decision represents not only the end of a policy largely intended to keep white parents from sending their children to neighboring public high schools, but also, in many ways, the end of an era in school desegregation. The state board said on Wednesday that it would no longer prohibit parents in Englewood and Englewood Cliffs from avoiding the local high school by sending their children to neighboring high schools that have more white students."
- ^ Data for the Englewood Cliffs Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 18, 2011.
- ^ Administration, Englewood Cliffs Public Schools. Accessed April 14, 2011.
[edit] External links
- Englewood Cliffs Public Schools
- Englewood Cliffs Public Schools's 2009–10 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Englewood Cliffs Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
Coordinates: 40°52′31″N 73°57′25″W / 40.875166°N 73.956834°W
