Cresskill Public Schools

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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 1,744 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 131.5 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 13.26:1
Other information
District Factor Group I
Website www.cresskillboe.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-12
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1A Total Spending $17,682 25 $18,891 -6.4%
1 Budgetary Cost 13,750 26 14,783 -7.0%
2 Classroom Instruction 8,535 30 8,763 -2.6%
6 Support Services 1,812 12 2,392 -24.2%
8 Administrative Cost 1,763 34 1,485 18.7%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,257 7 1,783 -29.5%
13 Extracurricular Activities 384 16 268 43.3%
16 Median Teacher Salary 67,850 43 64,043
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 2011-12 school year, the district's four schools had an enrollment of 1,744 students and 131.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.26:1.[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 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[6]) are:[7][8]

Elementary schools
  • Edward H. Bryan School[9] with 480 students grades PreK-5
  • Merritt Memorial School[10] with 288 students in grades PreK-5
Middle school
  • Cresskill Middle School[11] with 415 in grades 6-8
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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for Cresskill School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 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 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ "The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools", 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 1, 2014.
  7. ↑ Schools, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed December 1, 2014.
  8. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Cresskill Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 1, 2014.
  9. ↑ Edward H. Bryan School, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed December 1, 2014.
  10. ↑ Merritt Memorial School, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed December 1, 2014.
  11. ↑ Cresskill Middle School, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed December 1, 2014.
  12. ↑ Cresskill High School, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed December 1, 2014.
  13. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 1, 2014.
  14. ↑ Office of the Superintendent, Cresskill Public Schools. Accessed December 1, 2014.
  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 December 1, 2014.

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