Ridgefield Park Public Schools

Ridgefield Park Public Schools
This is the logo for Ridgefield Park Public Schools.
Address
712 Lincoln Avenue
Ridgefield Park
, Bergen County, New Jersey, 07660
United States
Coordinates40°51′42″N 74°01′33″W / 40.86174°N 74.025739°W / 40.86174; -74.025739
District information
GradesPreK-12
SuperintendentAngela Bender
Business administratorCarrie Grapstein
Schools4
Students and staff
Enrollment2,178 (as of 2020–21)[1]
Faculty180.0 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio12.1:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupDE
Websitewww.rpps.net
Ind. Per pupil District
spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-12
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$16,61319$18,891−12.1%
1Budgetary Cost12,055714,783−18.5%
2Classroom Instruction7,360148,763−16.0%
6Support Services1,908202,392−20.2%
8Administrative Cost1,27191,485−14.4%
10Operations & Maintenance1,08521,783−39.1%
13Extracurricular Activities4114426853.4%
16Median Teacher Salary68,4665264,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with 1,800-3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=68

The Ridgefield Park Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from the Village of Ridgefield Park, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of four schools, had an enrollment of 2,178 students and 180.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-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.[3]

Students from Little Ferry attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Little Ferry Public Schools that has been in place since 1953.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b c d District information for Ridgefield Park Public School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 15, 2022.
  2. ^ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 9, 2014.
  4. ^ About Us, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed February 1, 2020. "The Little Ferry School District is a New Jersey Public School District located in Bergen County, New Jersey. Our Prek-8 district serves approximately 950 students in two schools located across the street from each other in the town of Little Ferry, New Jersey.... Little Ferry’s 9–12 students attend Ridgefield Park High School in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey."
  5. ^ James, George. "School Districts' Battle On Tuition Goes to Court", The New York Times, December 16, 1989. Accessed August 19, 2013. "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."