Wood-Ridge School District

Wood-Ridge School District
89 Hackensack Street
Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075
District information
Grades PreK-12
Superintendent Nicholas Cipriano
Business administrator Jenine Murray
Schools 4
Students and staff
Enrollment 1,192 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 100.1 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 11.9:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group FG
Website www.wood-ridgeschools.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-12
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$16,80314$18,891-11.1%
1Budgetary Cost12,307914,783-16.7%
2Classroom Instruction6,52128,763-25.6%
6Support Services1,880182,392-21.4%
8Administrative Cost1,868401,48525.8%
10Operations & Maintenance1,591241,783-10.8%
13Extracurricular Activities4392626863.8%
16Median Teacher Salary53,868864,043
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 Wood-Ridge School District is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Wood-Ridge in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its four schools had an enrollment of 1,192 students and 100.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-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]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students from Moonachie attend Wood-Ridge High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Moonachie School District.[4][5]

Schools

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

Elementary school
  • Catherine E. Doyle Elementary School[8] with 359 students in Pre-K through 3rd grade
    • Anthony Albro, Principal
Middle school

Wood-Ridge Intermediate School[9] with 267 students in grades 4–6

    • Keith Lisa, Principal
High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[11][12]

  • Nicholas Cipriano, Superintendent of Schools
  • Jenine Murray, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Wood-Ridge 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 November 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ Moonachie School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 24, 2017. "Moonachie is a one school district near the Meadowlands.... We service students from grades Pre-k to 8. We send our high school students to Woodridge High School."
  5. ↑ Gavin, John A. "Council tells district to lower student estimates", The Record (Bergen County), May 18, 2010, backed up by the Internet Archive as of November 2, 2014. Accessed November 24, 2017. "The Borough Council wants the one-school district to lower estimates of how many students will attend Wood-Ridge High School, its receiving school, and predictions about how many students will be placed in special education programs outside the district."
  6. ↑ School Data for the Wood-Ridge School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Wood-Ridge Public School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  8. ↑ Catherine E. Doyle Elementary School, Wood-Ridge Public School District. Accessed November 24, 2017.
  9. ↑ Wood-Ridge Intermediate School, Wood-Ridge Public School District. Accessed November 24, 2017.
  10. ↑ Wood-Ridge Junior-Senior High School, Wood-Ridge Public School District. Accessed November 24, 2017.
  11. ↑ Board Profile, Wood-Ridge School District. Accessed November 24, 2017.
  12. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.

Coordinates: 40°50′41″N 74°05′10″W / 40.844726°N 74.086244°W / 40.844726; -74.086244

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