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Grades
  
K-12

Business administrator
  
Karen Yeamans

Student-teacher ratio
  
13.64:1

Number of students
  
3,934

Faculty
  
288.4

Superintendent
  
Russell Lazovick

Enrollment
  
3,934 (as of 2011-12)

District Factor Group
  
FG

Schools
  
7

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Nutley Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Nutley, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's seven schools had an enrollment of 3,934 students and 288.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.64:1.

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.

Awards and recognition

The district was selected as one of the top "100 Best Communities for Music Education in America 2005" by the American Music Conference.

NAMM named the district in its 2008 survey of the "Best Communities for Music Education", which included 110 school districts nationwide. The district was also named in NAMM's 2009 survey of the "Best Communities for Music Education", which included 124 school districts nationwide. It also attained this honor in 2010, 2011 and 2013.

Nutley's schools, much like other Essex county communities, compete in various academic competitions on town, county, state, and even national levels. Popular in both the elementary and middle schools is the "Academically Speaking" county competition, which tests knowledge of almost all subjects and pits a carefully selected town-wide team against others from towns such as Bloomfield, Livingston, and Montclair. Nutley's teams have routinely finished in the semi-finals or finals, and their middle school team won for the first time in 2007. It also won the competition in 2012. Nutley also sends two representatives to compete for a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee and one for the National Geographic Bee. They have an active "Forensics" program in both the middle and elementary schools, in which talented students dramatize famous fictional works, and finish well in the semi-statewide MathCounts competition, finishing in the top half among some of the top schools in northern New Jersey two years running.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2010-11 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

Elementary schools (K-6)
  • Lincoln (480 students). Lincoln was built in 1915, with further construction occurring in 1929. It is located at 301 Harrison Street.
  • Radcliffe (354). Located at 379 Bloomfield Avenue, it is the newest elementary school and was built in 1955.
  • Spring Garden (367). Located at 59 South Spring Garden Avenue, the school was constructed in 1917 and was added on to in 1927.
  • Washington (388). Washington was constructed in 1911, the second oldest elementary school still in use in Nutley. It is located at 155 Washington Avenue.
  • Yantacaw (453). Constructed in 1902, it is the oldest of the elementary schools still in use. In 1929, an addition was built to accommodate the growing population of Nutley. It is located at 20 Yantacaw Place.
    • Middle school
  • John H. Walker Middle School for grades 7 and 8 (599). Located at 325 Franklin Avenue, John H. Walker Middle School served as Nutley's high school until 1959.
    • High school
  • Nutley High School for grades 9-12 (1,271)

    • Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • Russell Lazovick, Superintendent
  • Karen Yeamans, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

    • References

    Nutley Public Schools Wikipedia
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