Norwood Public School District

Norwood Public School District
177 Summit Street
Norwood, NJ 07648
District information
Grades K-8
Superintendent Bert Ammerman (interim)
Business administrator Louise A. Napolitano
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 612 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 44.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 13.91:1
Other information
District Factor Group I
Website http://www.wearenorwood.org
Ind. Per pupil District
spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$17,28524$18,891-8.5%
1Budgetary Cost13,8712914,159-2.0%
2Classroom Instruction8,365278,659-3.4%
6Support Services2,525462,16716.5%
8Administrative Cost1,36791,547-11.6%
10Operations & Maintenance1,519301,612-5.8%
13Extracurricular Activities9523104-8.7%
16Median Teacher Salary63,3413961,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64

The Norwood Public School District is a community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Norwood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 612 students and 44.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.91:1.[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.[3]

Students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, together with students from Harrington Park, Northvale and Old Tappan,[4] along with students from Rockleigh who attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[5] The school is one of the two schools of the Northern Valley Regional High School District, which also serves students from the neighboring communities of Closter, Demarest and Haworth at the Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest.[6][7] During the 1994-96 school years, Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education.[8] As of the 2013-14 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,303 students and 100.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1.[9]

Schools

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[11]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Norwood School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  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 October 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ Home page, Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, backed up by the Internet Archive as of December 4, 2011. Accessed October 14, 2014. "Welcome to Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, home of the Golden Knights. Although our students reside in four different towns; Harrington Park, Northvale, Norwood, and Old Tappan, once they arrive here they are treated as one."
  5. ↑ Rockleigh Public Services, Rockleigh, New Jersey. Accessed October 14, 2014. "Rockleigh Borough is a 'sending district' in that there is no public school within the Borough, except for three special-education schools administered by Bergen County.... The Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, a nationally ranked high school, receives older children from Rockleigh Borough."
  6. ↑ Northern Valley Regional High School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 31, 2016. "Our long standing successful and cost efficient Pre-K-12 consortium remains an exemplar model of shared services including seven local Pre-K-8 districts that send their students to the regional high schools: Closter, Demarest, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northvale, Norwood and Old Tappan."
  7. ↑ Our Communities, Northern Valley Regional High School District. Accessed May 31, 2016. "The seven towns that make up the Northern Valley Regional High School District - Closter, Demarest, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northvale, Norwood, and Old Tappan - are situated in the northeast corner of Bergen County, New Jersey."
  8. ↑ Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), United States Department of Education. Accessed May 31, 2016.
  9. ↑ School Data for Northern Valley Regional Old Tappan High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed May 31, 2016.
  10. ↑ School Data for the Norwood Public School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  11. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  12. ↑ Superintendent, Norwood Public School District. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  13. ↑ Business Office, Norwood Public School District. Accessed October 14, 2014.

Coordinates: 40°59′44″N 73°57′41″W / 40.995665°N 73.961315°W / 40.995665; -73.961315

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