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Grades
  
pre-K to 12

Business administrator
  
Yaz Usami

Student-teacher ratio
  
12.77:1

Number of schools
  
6

Faculty
  
282.2

Superintendent
  
Lynn Trager

Enrollment
  
3,605 (as of 2011-12)

District Factor Group
  
I

Number of students
  
3,605 (2011–2012)


The Tenafly Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Tenafly, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Map of Tenafly Borough, NJ, USA

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 3,605 students and 282.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.77:1.

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 from Alpine attend Tenafly High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship.

Awards and recognition

Tenafly High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award, awarded by the United States Department of Education at a special assembly to the Tenafly High School Community on September 20, 2005. Tenafly was the only high school in New Jersey and one of 38 public high schools in the U.S. to be recognized with the award that year.

The district's high school was the 17th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology, and had been ranked 3rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012. Tenafly High School was the 3rd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 3rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The high school was the 2nd ranked public high school in the state out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 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:

  • Malcolm S. Mackay Elementary School (387 students; in grades K-5)
  • Ralph S. Maugham Elementary School (384; K-5)
  • J. Spencer Smith Elementary School (365; K-5)
  • Walter Stillman Elementary School (394; K-5)
    • Middle school
  • Tenafly Middle School (844) for grades 6-8. The Tenafly Middle School 8th grade string orchestra, conducted by Erika Boras Tesi, won first place in the American String Teachers Association's National Orchestra Festival, earning the title of number one public middle school orchestra in the United States.
    • High school
  • Tenafly High School (1,231) for grades 9-12.

    • Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • Lynn Trager, Superintendent
  • Yaz Usami, Board Secretary / Board Administrator

    • References

    Tenafly Public Schools Wikipedia
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