Cliffside Park School District

Cliffside Park School District
Address
525 Palisade Avenue Cliffside Park , Bergen County , New Jersey , 07010 United States
District information
Grades	PreK-12
Superintendent	Michael J. Romagnino
Business administrator	Louis Alfano
Schools	5
Students and staff
Enrollment	3,074 (as of 2021–22) [1]
Faculty	255.7 FTEs [1]
Student–teacher ratio	12.0:1 [1]
Other information
District Factor Group	B
Website	www.cliffsidepark.edu
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average  %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $15,328 6 $18,891 −18.9% 1 Budgetary Cost 12,567 15 14,783 −15.0% 2 Classroom Instruction 8,162 35 8,763 −6.9% 6 Support Services 1,691 9 2,392 −29.3% 8 Administrative Cost 1,400 20 1,485 −5.7% 10 Operations & Maintenance 952 1 1,783 −46.6% 13 Extracurricular Activities 290 10 268 8.2% 16 Median Teacher Salary 69,000 56 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending. [2] *Of K-12 districts with 1,800-3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=68

Early Learning Center

School #3 cupola

The Cliffside Park School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Cliffside Park, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of five schools, had an enrollment of 3,074 students and 255.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.0:1. ^[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "B", the second lowest 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]

Students from Fairview attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Fairview Public Schools. ^{[4] [5]}

Awards and recognition

In 2022, the United States Department of Education announced that Number 4 School was named as a National Blue Ribbon School, along with eight other schools in the state and 297 schools nationwide. ^{[6] [7]}

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2021–22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics ^[8] ) are: ^{[9] [10]}

Elementary schools

• Number 3 School ^[11] with 358 students in grades PreK-4
  • Barbara Bracco, principal
• Number 4 School ^[12] with 485 students in grades K-5
  • Jaclyn Roussos, principal
• Number 5 School ^[13] with 275 students in grades PreK-4
  • Dana Martinotti, principal ^[14]
• Number 6 School ^[15] / Cliffside Park Middle School ^[16] with 692 students in grades 5-8
  • Robert Bargna, principal
  • Mark Rindfuss, middle school principal
• Cliffside Park High School ^[17] with 1,192 students in grades 9-12
  • Lawrence Pinto, principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are: ^{[18] [19]}

• Michael Romagnino, superintendent of schools
• Louis Alfano, business administrator and board secretary

Board of education

The district's board of education is comprised of nine members who set policy and oversee the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration; an additional representative is appointed to represent Fairview. ^[18] As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held in April; the district is one of 12 districts, out of more than 600 statewide, that still hold school elections in April. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district. ^{[20] [21]} Of the nearly 600 school districts statewide, Cliffside Park is one of 12 districts with school elections in April, in which voters also decide on passage of the annual school budget. ^[22]

References

1. District information for Cliffside Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022.
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 6, 2014.
4. Cliffside Park High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 29, 2017. "Cliffside Park High School services the students of Cliffside Park and the neighboring community of Fairview."
5. Profile 2013 – 2014 Archived 2014-02-28 at the Wayback Machine , Cliffside Park High School. Accessed May 29, 2017. "Cliffside Park is a residential community of approximately 23,600 residents and a geographical size of one square mile. It is a suburb of and less than one mile from New York City. The neighboring town of Fairview is a K – 8 district and Cliffside Park is the receiving district for Fairview's 9 – 12 students. Fairview has a population of approximately 13,600."
6. 2022 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Non‐Public Schools, National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Accessed June 26, 2023.
7. Cliffside Park School 4 - Cliffside Park, NJ, National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Accessed June 26, 2023.
8. School Data for the Cliffside Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022.
9. School Performance Reports for the Cliffside Park School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.
10. New Jersey School Directory for the Cliffside Park School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
11. Number 3 School, Cliffside Park School District. Accessed February 1, 2023.
12. Number 4 School, Cliffside Park School District. Accessed February 1, 2023.
13. Number 5 School, Cliffside Park School District. Accessed February 1, 2023.
14. Meet the Principal, Number 5 School. Accessed February 1, 2023.
15. Number 6 School, Cliffside Park School District. Accessed February 1, 2023.
16. Cliffside Park Middle School, Cliffside Park School District. Accessed February 1, 2023.
17. Cliffside Park High School, Cliffside Park School District. Accessed February 1, 2023.
18. Board of Education Members, Cliffside Park School District. Accessed February 1, 2023.
19. New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
20. New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election, New Jersey Department of Education, updated February 16, 2018. Accessed January 26, 2020.
21. Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the Cliffside Park School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2021. Accessed February 1, 2023. "The Board of Education ('Board') of the Borough of Cliffside Park School District (“District”) is an instrumentality of the State of New Jersey, established to function as an educational institution. The Borough of Cliffside Park School District is a Type II district located in the County of Bergen, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the School District functions independently through a Board of Education. The board is comprised of nine members and a Borough of Fairview Representative, all elected to three-year terms."
22. Sportelli, Albina. "Your guide to North Jersey spring school board elections", The Record , April 14, 2023. Accessed March 15, 2024. "Of New Jersey's almost 600 school districts, only 12 have elections in April, the rest have opted to hold theirs in November.... Schools that have kept elections in the spring, or switched back after moving them to November, are: Cliffside Park, Fairview, Passaic, Totowa, Fredon, Montague, Irvington, Newark, North Bergen, Weehawken, West New York and New Brunswick."

External links

• Cliffside Park School District
• School Performance Reports for the Cliffside Park School District , New Jersey Department of Education
• Cliffside Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics