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Franklin Lakes Public Schools

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Grades
  
Pre-K-8

Business administrator
  
Michael Solokas

Faculty
  
144.4 FTEs

Number of students
  
1,808

Superintendent
  
Dr. Lydia E. Furnari

Enrollment
  
1,808 (as of 2014-15)

Student-teacher ratio
  
12.5:1

Schools
  
4

Profiles

The Franklin Lakes Public Schools are a community public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Franklin Lakes, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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As of the 2014-15 school year, the district's four schools had an enrollment of 1,808 students and 144.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1.

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.

Students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades attend the schools of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District, a regional district consisting of two four-year public high schools serving students from Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff. Before enrolling, students have the option to choose to attend either of the district's high schools. Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Indian Hills High School, located in Oakland (1,226 students) and Ramapo High School, located in Franklin Lakes (1,088 students).

Awards and recognition

For the 2005-06 school year, the district was recognized with the "Best Practices Award" by the New Jersey Department of Education for its "Artist Historians" Social Studies program at Franklin Avenue Middle School.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

Elementary schools
  • Colonial Road School (K-5; 265 students)
  • Christine Gagliardo, Principal
  • High Mountain Road School (PreK-5; 229)
  • Jaclyn Bajzath, Principal
  • Woodside Avenue School (K-5; 276)
  • Ann Jameson, Principal
  • Middle school
  • Franklin Avenue Middle School (6-8; 454)
  • Joseph Keiser, Principal
  • Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • Dr. Lydia E. Furnari, Superintendent
  • Michael J. Solokas, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
  • References

    Franklin Lakes Public Schools Wikipedia