Saddle River School District

Saddle River School District
Address
97 East Allendale Road Saddle River , Bergen County , New Jersey , 07458 United States
Coordinates	41°01′53″N74°05′48″W / 41.031428°N 74.096736°W / 41.031428; -74.096736
District information
Grades	PreK-5
Superintendent	Gina Cinotti
Business administrator	Tom Duane
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	165 (as of 2018–19) [1]
Faculty	18.5 FTEs [1]
Student–teacher ratio	8.9:1 [1]
Other information
District Factor Group	J
Website	www.wandellschool.org
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-6 average  %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $21,022 51 $18,891 11.3% 1 Budgetary Cost 25,697 59 13,649 88.3% 2 Classroom Instruction 12,945 58 8,366 54.7% 6 Support Services 8,265 59 2,161 282.5% 8 Administrative Cost 1,978 53 1,467 34.8% 10 Operations & Maintenance 2,464 54 1,552 58.8% 16 Median Teacher Salary 63,706 49 57,437 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, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 165 students and 18.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.9:1. ^[1] In the 2016–17 school year, Saddle River was tied for the 28th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 150 students. ^[3]

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. ^[4]

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. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]} As of the 2018–19 school year, Northern Highlands High School had an enrollment of 1,377 students and 110.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. ^[11] while Ramsey High School had an enrollment of 870 students and 80.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. ^[12] 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. ^[13]

Schools

Wandell School served 162 students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as of the 2018–19 school year. ^{[14] [15]}

Administration

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

• Gina Cinotti, superintendent and principal ^[17]
• Tom Duane, board secretary and business administrator

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of five members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. 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 either one or two seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. 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. ^{[18] [19] [20]}

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. ^[21]

References

1. District information for Saddle River School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. Guion, Payton. "These 43 N.J. school districts have fewer than 200 students", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 2017. Accessed January 30, 2020. "Based on data from the state Department of Education from the last school year and the Census Bureau, NJ Advance Media made a list of the smallest of the small school districts in the state, excluding charter schools and specialty institutions.... 28. Saddle River Borough (tie); Enrollment: 150; Grades: Pre-K-5; County: Bergen; Town population: 3,152"
4. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 10, 2014.
5. 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."
6. Welcome, Ramsey School District. Accessed January 21, 2020. "Welcome to the Ramsey Public School District. Our district is comprised of three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school where approximately 3400 students are educated. We have a send-receive relationship with the students of Saddle River for middle school and high school."
7. 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."
8. 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."
9. 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."
10. 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."
11. School data for Northern Highlands Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
12. School data for Ramsey High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
13. 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."
14. School Data for the Saddle River School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
15. New Jersey School Directory for the Saddle river School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
16. New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
17. Superintendent, Saddle River School District. AccessedApril 17, 2020.
18. 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.
19. Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the Saddle River School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2018. Accessed April 17, 2020. "The Saddle River Board of Education (the "Board" or the "District") is an instnunentality of the State of New Jersey, established to function as an education institution. The Board consists of five elected officials and is responsible for the fiscal control of the district."
20. Board of Education, Saddle River School District. Accessed April 17, 2020.
21. 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."

External links

• Saddle River School District
• School Performance Reports for the Saddle River School District , New Jersey Department of Education
• Saddle River School District, National Center for Education Statistics
• Ramsey High School
• Northern Highlands Regional High School