Saddle River School District

Saddle River School District
Address
97 East Allendale Road
Saddle River, NJ 07458
United States
Coordinates 41°01′53″N 74°05′48″W / 41.031428°N 74.096736°W / 41.031428; -74.096736Coordinates: 41°01′53″N 74°05′48″W / 41.031428°N 74.096736°W / 41.031428; -74.096736
District information
Grades PreK-5
Superintendent Louis DeLisio (interim)
Business administrator Donna Logan
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 440 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 21.4 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 20.6:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group J
Website www.wandellschool.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-6
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$21,02251$18,89111.3%
1Budgetary Cost25,6975913,64988.3%
2Classroom Instruction12,945588,36654.7%
6Support Services8,265592,161282.5%
8Administrative Cost1,978531,46734.8%
10Operations & Maintenance2,464541,55258.8%
16Median Teacher Salary63,7064957,437
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=59

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, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 440 students and 21.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 20.6:1.[1]

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.[3]

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.[4][5][6][7][8][9] As of the 2014-15 school year, Northern Highlands had an enrollment of 1,373 students and 115.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1,[10] while Ramsey High School had an enrollment of 856 students and 85.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.0:1.[11] 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.[12]

As of 2012, school elections were shifted from April to the November general election as part of an effort to reduce the costs of a standalone April vote.[13]

Schools

Wandell School served 187 students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as of the 2014-15 school year.[14]

  • Glenn Stokes, Vice Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[15][16]

  • Louis DeLisio, Interim Superintendent
  • Donna Logan, Board Secretary / Business Administrator

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Saddle River 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 September 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ 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."
  5. ↑ About Ramsey Schools, Ramsey Public School District. Accessed November 14, 2017. "Ramsey's 2,700+ students are educated in two K-3 schools, one 4-5 upper elementary school, a middle school for grades 6-8 and a 9-12 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."
  6. ↑ 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."
  7. ↑ 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."
  8. ↑ 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."
  9. ↑ 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."
  10. ↑ School data for Northern Highlands Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  11. ↑ School data for Ramsey High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  12. ↑ 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."
  13. ↑ Kleimann, Karen; Clyde, John. "Districts moving school elections", Town Journal, February 15, 2012. Accessed November 30, 2014. "The Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Northern Highlands, Saddle River and Upper Saddle River boards of education voted to move their respective school elections to November for at least the next four annual elections. The five districts, along with a majority of school boards across the state, are moving their elections from April to November in hopes of sparing taxpayers the expense of a separate election, according to the New Jersey School Boards Association."
  14. ↑ School Data for the Saddle River School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  15. ↑ Board of Education, Saddle River School District. Accessed September 10, 2014.
  16. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
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