Alpine Public School District

Alpine Public School
This is the logo for the Alpine Public School District.
Address
500 Hillside Avenue
Alpine
, Bergen County, New Jersey, 07620
United States
Coordinates40°56′32″N 73°55′39″W / 40.942165°N 73.927404°W / 40.942165; -73.927404
District information
GradesK-8
SuperintendentMaureen McCann
Business administratorOlga Sico
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment170 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty21.5 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio7.9:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupI
Websitewww.alpineschool.org
Ind. Per pupil District
spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-8
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$27,45967$18,89145.4%
1Budgetary Cost27,2647014,15992.6%
2Classroom Instruction15,488698,65978.9%
6Support Services6,583712,167203.8%
8Administrative Cost1,965651,54727.0%
10Operations & Maintenance2,478571,61253.7%
13Extracurricular Activities70369104576.0%
16Median Teacher Salary60,5624761,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

The Alpine Public School District is a community public school district serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade in the Borough of Alpine in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3][4]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 170 students and 21.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.9:1.[1] In the 2016–17 school year, Alpine had the 33rd smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 160 students.[5]

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.[6]

For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students attend Tenafly High School in Tenafly as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Tenafly Public Schools under which the Alpine district paid tuition of $14,392 per student for the 2011-12 school year.[7][8][9][10] As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,200 students and 103.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.6:1.[11] The district participates in special education programs offered by Region III, one of nine such regional programs in Bergen County. Region III coordinates and develops special education programs for the 1,000 students with learning disabilities in the region, which also includes the Closter, Demarest, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northvale, Norwood and Old Tappan districts, as well as the Northern Valley Regional High School District.[12]

  1. ^ a b c d District information for Alpine School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  2. ^ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ^ School Performance Reports for the Alpine School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.
  4. ^ New Jersey School Directory for the Alpine School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  5. ^ Guion, Payton. "These 43 N.J. school districts have fewer than 200 students", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 2017. Accessed January 30, 2020. "Based on data from the state Department of Education from the last school year and the Census Bureau, NJ Advance Media made a list of the smallest of the small school districts in the state, excluding charter schools and specialty institutions....33. Alpine Borough; Enrollment: 160; Grades: K-8; County: Bergen; Town population: 1,849"
  6. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  7. ^ Alpine School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 21, 2020. "The District's students in Grades 9 through 12 can attend Tenafly High School which is the partner school in a sending-receiving relationship. Enrollment is free for students with the cost of their tuition paid by the Alpine School District."
  8. ^ Alvarado, Monsy. "Alpine to keep sending students to Tenafly", The Record, April 4, 2003. Accessed August 23, 2014. "Alpine - The borough's high school students will continue to attend Tenafly High School under a new contract approved by the Board of Education this week."
  9. ^ Gemignani, Joseph. "Tenafly student registration recount lacks parent cooperation", The Record, June 20, 2011. Accessed August 23, 2014. "Students from Alpine, which has no high school, may attend Tenafly High under a so-called sending agreement that reimburses Tenafly. When the 2011-12 school budget was adopted, the cost per pupil was put at $14,392, though Trager said that figure has since been increased because Trenton has recalculated the formula to add items like special education."
  10. ^ Cheslow, Jerry. "If You're Thinking of Living In/ Alpine, N.J.; Lavish Homes in a Millionaire's Borough", The New York Times, December 14, 1997. Accessed August 23, 2014. "The students go on to Tenafly High School, in neighboring Tenafly, which sent 91 percent of last year's 230 graduates to higher education."
  11. ^ School data for Tenafly High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  12. ^ Region III Overview Archived December 6, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Northern Valley Regional High School District. Accessed December 6, 2019. "Responding to this the Bergen County Superintendents Council almost 25 years ago, divided and reorganized the county into seven regions for special education. Bergen County Region III is comprised of nine participating districts: Alpine, Closter, Demarest, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northern Valley Regional High School District, Northvale, Norwood, and Old Tappan."