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97 East Allendale Road
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| Coordinates | 41°01′53″N 74°05′48″W / 41.031428°N 74.096736°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Grades | PreK-5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Superintendent | Gina Cinotti | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business administrator | Tom Duane | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Enrollment | 115 (as of 2022–23)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Faculty | 16.4 FTEs[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Student–teacher ratio | 7.0:1[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Saddle River School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade from Saddle River, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3][4]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 115 students and 16.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.0:1.[1] In the 2016–17 school year, Saddle River was tied for the 28th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 150 students.[5]
The district was classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "J", the-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]
Public school students from Saddle River attend the Ramsey Public School District's middle school and then have the option of attending either Ramsey High School or Northern Highlands Regional High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with each of the respective districts.[7][8][9][10][11][12] As of the 2018–19 school year, Northern Highlands High School had an enrollment of 1,377 students and 110.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1.[13] while Ramsey High School had an enrollment of 870 students and 80.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1.[14] One of under ten districts with a dual send-receive relationship, three quarters of Saddle River's high school students attend Northern Highlands and about a quarter attend Ramsey High School.[15]
- ^ a b c d District information for Saddle River School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
- ^ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
- ^ School Performance Reports for the Saddle River School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.
- ^ New Jersey School Directory for the Saddle River School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
- ^ 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.... 28. Saddle River Borough (tie); Enrollment: 150; Grades: Pre-K-5; County: Bergen; Town population: 3,152"
- ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 10, 2014.
- ^ Staff. "Tuition to rise $219 under new contract", Town Journal, November 19, 2009, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 4, 2016. Accessed November 14, 2017. "With no high school in the borough, Saddle River students have the option of enrolling in either Ramsey High School or Northern Highlands. The new deal replaces the previous agreement that covered 1998 to 2008."
- ^ Welcome, Ramsey School District. Accessed January 21, 2020. "Welcome to the Ramsey Public School District. Our district is comprised of three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school where approximately 3400 students are educated. We have a send-receive relationship with the students of Saddle River for middle school and high school."
- ^ Ramsey Public Schools 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 14, 2017. "Ramsey’s 2900 students are educated in two K-3 primary schools, one 4-5 upper elementary school, a middle school for grades 6-8 and a 9-12 comprehensive high school. In addition to serving the residents of Ramsey, the District educates the students of Saddle River in grades 6-12 through a send-receive relationship."
- ^ Northern Highlands Regional High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 14, 2017. "A four-year public high school, Northern Highlands strives to address the needs of all of its students who come from four towns in northern Bergen County: Allendale, Upper Saddle River, Ho-Ho-Kus, and Saddle River."
- ^ Ramsey Schools Overview, Saddle River School District. Accessed November 14, 2017. "Following graduation from Fifth grade, students enter Eric Smith Middle School in Ramsey, New Jersey. Upon graduation from Eighth grade students may attend Ramsey High School."
- ^ Northern Highlands High School Overview, Saddle River School District. Accessed November 14, 2017. "Northern Highlands High School is located in Allendale New Jersey and is one of the two high schools Saddle River students may elect to attend."
- ^ School data for Northern Highlands Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
- ^ School data for Ramsey High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
- ^ Obernauer, Eric. "Montague to poll parents on school preference", New Jersey Herald, June 27, 2015. Accessed November 14, 2017. "Among them is the Saddle River School District, an affluent K-5 district in Bergen County that formerly sent its students in grades 6-8 to Ramsey Middle School and its students in grades 9-12 to Ramsey High School. About 15 years ago, Saddle River formed dual send-receive relationships allowing students in grades 9-12 to choose between Ramsey and Northern Highlands high schools, both upscale districts as well. Fred Palumbo, the school business administrator in Saddle River, told the New Jersey Herald in a phone conversation about it last year that the arrangement has worked well, with an estimated 70-75 percent of students choosing Northern Highlands and the remaining 25-30 percent opting to remain in Ramsey."