Little Ferry Public Schools

Little Ferry Public Schools
Address
130 Liberty Street
Little Ferry, NJ 07643
United States
Coordinates Coordinates: 40°50′51″N 74°02′35″W / 40.847497°N 74.042943°W / 40.847497; -74.042943
District information
Grades K to 8
Superintendent Frank R. Scarafile
Business administrator Dr. Dennis Frohnapfel (interim)
Schools 2
Students and staff
Enrollment 1,406 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 72.0 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 19.5:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group CD
Website www.littleferry.k12.nj.us
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
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 kindergarten through eighth grade from Little Ferry in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its two schools had an enrollment of 1,406 students and 72.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 19.5:1.[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.[3]

Since 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.[4][5][6]

Awards and recognition

Memorial School was recognized by Governor Jim McGreevey in 2003 as one of 25 schools selected statewide for the First Annual Governor's School of Excellence award.[7]

Schools

The district is comprised of two school buildings, which are located across the street from each other.[6] Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9]

  • Washington Elementary School[10] (198 students; in grades K-1)
    • Tonilyn Peragallo, Principal[11]
  • Memorial Middle School[12] (782; 2-8). Memorial Elementary School includes Grades 2 - 4, while Memorial Middle School includes grades 5 - 8 and the Board of Education Offices.[6]
    • Robert Porfido, Principal[13]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[14]

  • Frank R. Scarafile, Superintendent of Schools[15]
  • Dr. Dennis Frohnapfel, Interim Board Secretary / Business Administrator[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Little Ferry 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 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ James, George. "School Districts' Battle On Tuition Goes to Court", The New York Times, December 16, 1989. Accessed October 17, 2017. "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."
  5. ↑ 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 October 17, 2017. "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."
  6. 1 2 3 About Our District, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed October 17, 2017. "Memorial School serves approximately 400 students and houses the Middle School which serves students in grades 5-8. The Memorial School facility is also the home of Little Ferry’s Board of Education Office. Washington Elementary School serves approximately 500 students in grades PreK to 4. Grades 2 to 4 attend classes in the Elementary wing of Memorial School. Little Ferry’s 9–12 students attend Ridgefield Park High School in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey."
  7. ↑ McGreevey Celebrates Schools that are "Getting it Right": Schools of Excellence Winners Demonstrate Effectiveness of Governor's Education Priorities, New Jersey Department of Education press release dated November 21, 2003, backed up by the Internet Archive as of November 18, 2012. Accessed May 3, 2013.
  8. ↑ School Data for the Little Ferry Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Little Ferry Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  10. ↑ Washington Elementary School, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed October 17, 2017.
  11. ↑ Principal's Welcome - Washington, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed October 17, 2017.
  12. ↑ Memorial Middle School, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed October 17, 2017.
  13. ↑ Principal's Welcome - Memorial, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed October 17, 2017.
  14. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  15. ↑ Superintendent's Corner, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed October 17, 2017.
  16. ↑ Business Office - Overview, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed October 17, 2017.
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