Little Ferry Public Schools

Little Ferry Public Schools
This is the logo for Little Ferry Public Schools.
Address
130 Liberty Street
Little Ferry
, Bergen County, New Jersey, 07643
United States
Coordinates40°50′51″N 74°02′35″W / 40.847497°N 74.042943°W / 40.847497; -74.042943
District information
GradesPreK to 8
SuperintendentMatthew A. Perrapato
Business administratorJohn Gomez
Schools2
Students and staff
Enrollment806 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty84.0 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio9.6:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupCD
Websitewww.littleferry.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per pupil District
spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-8
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$14,91611$18,891−21.0%
1Budgetary Cost10,718514,159−24.3%
2Classroom Instruction7,18298,659−17.1%
6Support Services1,26832,167−41.5%
8Administrative Cost91811,547−40.7%
10Operations & Maintenance1,160101,612−28.0%
13Extracurricular Activities5915104−43.3%
16Median Teacher Salary64,9226561,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with more than 750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=84

The Little Ferry Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Little Ferry in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 806 students and 84.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.6:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth-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.[4]

As Little Ferry does not have its own high school, public school students from the borough attend Ridgefield Park High School in Ridgefield Park for ninth through twelfth grades as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Ridgefield Park Public Schools that has been in place since 1953.[5][6][7] As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,174 students and 87.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.4:1.[8]

  1. ^ a b c d District information for Little Ferry Public 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. ^ Little Ferry Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed February 8, 2024. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through eight in the Little Ferry School District. Composition: The Little Ferry School District is comprised of all the area within the County of Bergen."
  4. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 5, 2014.
  5. ^ James, George. "School Districts' Battle On Tuition Goes to Court", The New York Times, December 16, 1989. Accessed February 8, 2024. "School officials in the borough, Little Ferry, which sends 202 students to the 546-student high school, say a partial audit several years ago raised suspicions that Ridgefield Park has overcharged them by hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years.... Little Ferry, a borough of 1.5 square miles and 9,900 people, has sent its high school students to this neighboring 1.92-square mile village of 12,000 people, since 1953."
  6. ^ Miraglia, Mary K. "Little Ferry Schools Not Responsible For $1.5M Gap In Ridgefield Park", Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights Daily Voice, January 13, 2016. Accessed February 8, 2024. "Ridgefield Park Superintendent Eric Koenig reached out to Little Ferry Superintendent Frank Scarafile after his board meeting Jan. 7 to go over plans for filling the budget shortfall. Koenig assured him Ridgefield Park won’t be trying to make any changes to the sending - receiving contract that would impose new tuition in the current year, according to a letter Scarafile sent to his board members."
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  8. ^ School data for Ridgefield Park Jr Sr High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.