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West Essex Regional School District

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Grades
  
7-12

Business administrator
  
Michael Falkowski

Faculty
  
145.4 FTEs

Number of students
  
1,651 (2014–2015)

Superintendent
  
Barbara Longo

Enrollment
  
1,651 (as of 2014-15)

Student-teacher ratio
  
11.4:1

Schools
  
2

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The West Essex Regional School District is a regional public school district serving students in seventh through twelfth grade from Essex Fells, Fairfield, North Caldwell and Roseland, four municipalities in western Essex County, New Jersey, United States. These four suburban residential communities located approximately 25 miles (40 km) from New York City have a combined population of approximately 23,000 people and cover an area of 18 square miles (47 km2).

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Map of West Essex Regional School District, NJ, USA

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 1,651 students and 145.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1.

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.

West Essex Regional is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 16th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 36th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 48th in 2008 out of 316 schools.

Schools

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

  • West Essex Middle School (grades 7-8; 581 students)
  • Principal - Vee Popat
  • Assistant Principal - Lisa Tamburri
  • West Essex High School (grades 9-12; 1,070 students)
  • Principal - Caesar Diliberto
  • Assistant Principal - Juliann Hoebee
  • Assistant Principal - Damion Macioci

    • Administration

    Members of the district administration are:

  • Barbara Longo, Superintendent
  • Michael Falkowski, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

    • References

    West Essex Regional School District Wikipedia
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