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Northvale Public Schools

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Grades
  
K-8

Business administrator
  
Dawn Delasandro

Student-teacher ratio
  
18.1:1

Phone
  
+1 201-768-8484

Schools
  
1

Superintendent
  
Michael Pinajian

Enrollment
  
780 (as of 2014-15)

District Factor Group
  
FG

Number of students
  
780 (2014–2015)

Faculty
  
43.2

Address
  
441 Tappan Rd, Northvale, NJ 07647, USA

The Northvale Public School is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Northvale in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Students from Rockleigh, a non-operating school district, attend the district as part of a sending/receiving relationship.

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As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 780 students and 43.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 18.1:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-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 Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, together with students from Harrington Park, Norwood and Old Tappan, along with students from Rockleigh who attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship. The school is one of the two schools of the Northern Valley Regional High School District, which also serves students from the neighboring communities of Closter, Demarest and Haworth at the Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest. During the 1994-96 school years, Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,287 students and 102.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1.

Schools

Northvale Public School had an enrollment of 509 students in grades K-8 as of the 2014-15 school year.

  • Dianne Smith, principal
  • As of the 2012-13 school year, Thomas Jefferson School (for grades K-4) and Nathan Hale School (for grades 5-8) were combined to create the Northvale Public School, as part of an effort to reduce costs associated with running two separate schools that share a common campus and corridor.

    Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • Michael Pinajian, Superintendent / Principal
  • Dawn Delasandro, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
  • References

    Northvale Public Schools Wikipedia