Old Tappan Public Schools

The Old Tappan Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Old Tappan in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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• Schools
• Administration
• References

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its two schools had an enrollment of 1,162 students and 63.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 18.2:1.

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 Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, together with students from Harrington Park, Northvale and Norwood, 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.