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Grades
  
pre-K to 12

Business administrator
  
Antoinette Kelly

Student-teacher ratio
  
13.26:1

Number of students
  
1,744

Faculty
  
131.5

Superintendent
  
Michael Burke

Enrollment
  
1,744 (as of 2011-12)

District Factor Group
  
I

Schools
  
4

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The Cresskill Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serve students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Cresskill in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The district is governed by a Board of Education and administered by a Superintendent of Schools, a School Business Administrator / Board Secretary and principals.

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Map of Cresskill Borough, NJ, USA

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's four schools had an enrollment of 1,744 students and 131.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.26:1.

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.

Awards and recognition

In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Cresskill High School was listed in 209th place, the fifth-highest ranked school in New Jersey; the school had been ranked 202nd in the 2006 survey and in 93rd in 2005.

Cresskill High School was the 39th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

Elementary schools
  • Edward H. Bryan School with 480 students grades PreK-5
  • Merritt Memorial School with 288 students in grades PreK-5
  • Middle school
  • Cresskill Middle School with 415 in grades 6-8
  • High school
  • Cresskill High School with 561 students in grades 9-12
  • Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • Michael Burke, Superintendent
  • Antoinette Kelly, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
  • References

    Cresskill Public Schools Wikipedia