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Bergen Arts and Science Charter School

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Grades
  
K-12

Schools
  
1

Faculty
  
77.0 FTEs

Phone
  
+1 973-253-0002

Founded
  
2007

Superintendent
  
Christopher Lessard

Enrollment
  
959 (as of 2014-15)

Student-teacher ratio
  
12.5:1

Number of students
  
959 (2014–2015)

Color
  
Black and yellow

Bergen Arts and Science Charter School

Address
  
200 MacArthur Ave, Garfield, NJ 07026, USA

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Bergen Arts and Science Charter School (BASCS/Bergen ASCS) is a public charter school based in Garfield, New Jersey, United States. As part of the North Jersey Arts & Science Charter Schools, the network consists of Bergen-ASCS Elementary in Garfield, Beregn-ASCS Middle High in Hackensack and both Passaic-ASCS Elementary and Building #2 in Passaic.

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BASCS opened in September 2007 for grades K–5 and added a new grade every year up to 12th grade, in 2011 it expanded to Hackensack and Passaic with the Bergen Arts and Science Charter School Middle High in Hackensack and Passaic Arts and Science School in Passaic. After the expansion was complete, Bergen Arts and Science Charter School moved 7th and 8th grade to Bergen Arts and Science Charter School Middle High. Bergen Arts and Science Charter School serves public school students in Garfield, as well as those from Hackensack and Lodi.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 959 students and 77.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. There were 371 students (38.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 158 (16.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

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Expansion

In 2011 BASCS expanded into two new schools, BASCS Middle High and Passaic Arts and Science Charter School bringing its total number of schools to three. Both BASCS Middle High and Passaic Arts and Science Charter School started operating in the 2011-12 school year and are both currently in their second year with the 2012-13 school year

As of March 2014, BASCS has six schools (one in Clifton, NJ - one in Garfield NJ - one in Hackensack, NJ - two in Passaic, NJ - one in Paterson, NJ)

References

Bergen Arts and Science Charter School Wikipedia