Little Ferry Public Schools

Little Ferry Public Schools
130 Liberty Street
Little Ferry, NJ 07643
District information
Grades pre-K to 8
Superintendent Dr. Mark Hayes (interim)
Business administrator Paul Vizzuso
Schools 2
Students and staff
Enrollment 980 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 67.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 14.63:1
Other information
District Factor Group CD
Website www.littleferry.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per pupil District
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 pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from Little Ferry in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 980 students and 67.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.63:1.[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]

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.[6]

Schools

The district contains two schools, which are located across the street from each other. Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[7]) are:[8]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[13][14]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Little Ferry School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 5, 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 December 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ James, George. "School Districts' Battle On Tuition Goes to Court", The New York Times, December 16, 1989. Accessed May 3, 2013. "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. 1 2 About our schools, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed December 5, 2014.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ School Data for the Little Ferry Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 5, 2014.
  8. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Little Ferry Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 5, 2014.
  9. ↑ Washington / Memorial Elementary, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed December 5, 2014.
  10. ↑ Principal's Corner, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed December 5, 2014.
  11. ↑ Memorial Middle School, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed December 5, 2014.
  12. ↑ Principal's Corner, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed December 5, 2014.
  13. ↑ District Office, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed December 5, 2014.
  14. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 5, 2014.

Coordinates: 40°50′51″N 74°02′35″W / 40.847497°N 74.042943°W / 40.847497; -74.042943

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