Cresskill Public Schools

Cresskill Public Schools
1 Lincoln Drive
Cresskill, NJ 07626
District information
Grades Pre-K to 12
Superintendent Michael Burke
Business administrator Antoinette Kelly
Schools 4
Students and staff
Enrollment 1,771 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 139.4 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 12.7:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group I
Website www.cresskillboe.k12.nj.us
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-12
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$17,68225$18,891-6.4%
1Budgetary Cost13,7502614,783-7.0%
2Classroom Instruction8,535308,763-2.6%
6Support Services1,812122,392-24.2%
8Administrative Cost1,763341,48518.7%
10Operations & Maintenance1,25771,783-29.5%
13Extracurricular Activities3841626843.3%
16Median Teacher Salary67,8504364,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with up to 1,800 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=49

The Cresskill Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Cresskill in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The district is governed by a Board of Education and administered by a Superintendent of Schools, a School Business Administrator / Board Secretary and principals.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its four schools had an enrollment of 1,771 students and 139.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1.[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]

Awards and recognition

In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Cresskill High School was listed in 209th place, the fifth-highest ranked school in New Jersey; the school had been ranked 202nd in the 2006 survey and in 93rd in 2005.[4]

Cresskill High School was the 39th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.[5]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[6]) are:[7][8]

Elementary schools
  • Edward H. Bryan School[9] with 473 students grades PreK-5
    • Erik Roth, Principal
  • Merritt Memorial School[10] with 332 students in grades PreK-5
    • Paul Diverio, Principal
Middle school
  • Cresskill Middle School[11] with 421 in grades 6-8
    • John Massaro, Principal
    • Melissa Cavins, Assistant Principal
High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[13]

  • Michael Burke, Superintendent[14][15]
  • Antoinette Kelly, Business Administrator / Board Secretary[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Cresskill Public School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  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 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ "The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools" Archived May 23, 2007, at the Wayback Machine., Newsweek, May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007.
  5. ↑ "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed April 18, 2013.
  6. ↑ School Data for the Cresskill Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ Schools, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed October 11, 2017.
  8. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Cresskill Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  9. ↑ Edward H. Bryan School, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed October 11, 2017.
  10. ↑ Merritt Memorial School, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed October 11, 2017.
  11. ↑ Cresskill Middle School, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed October 11, 2017.
  12. ↑ Cresskill High School, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed October 11, 2017.
  13. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  14. ↑ Office of the Superintendent, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed October 11, 2017.
  15. ↑ Lightdale, Marc. "Burke to replace Bellina as Cresskill superintendent", Northern Valley Suburbanite, May 8, 2014. Accessed December 1, 2014. "High School and Middle School Principal Michael Burke said he is 'thrilled and honored' that the Board of Education selected him as the next superintendent, replacing Loretta Bellina beginning Sept. 1."
  16. ↑ Business Office, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed October 11, 2017.

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