The North Arlington School District is a comprehensive community publicschool district that serves students in
pre-kindergarten
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Bergen County
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As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprising six schools, had an enrollment of 1,915 students and 144.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a
student–teacher ratio
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. Accessed April 1, 2020.
The district is classified by the
New Jersey Department of Education
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as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-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.
In the 1970s and 1980s, declining enrollment led North Arlington to be one of the few school districts in the state that featured involuntary "combined classes" whereby classes at their Roosevelt School for grades 4 and 5 and for grades 6 and 7 were combined into a single classroom with a single teacher for each pair of grades.
Schools in the district (with 2020–21 school enrollment data from the
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) are:
;Elementary schools
*Franklin D Roosevelt Elementary School with 123 students in grades PreK-5
**Alicia Giammanco, Principal
*George Washington Elementary School with 325 students in grades PreK-5
**Elaine Jaume, Principal
*Thomas Jefferson Elementary School with 172 students in grades K-5
**Marie Griggs, Principa
*Susan B Anthony Elementary School with 248 students in grades PreK-5
**Jennifer Rodriguez, Principal
;Middle school
*Veterans Middle School with 464 students in grades 6-8
**Nicole Campbell Russo, Principal
;High school
* North Arlington High School with 548 students in grades 9-12
**Patrick D. Bott, Principal
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
*Dr. Stephen M. Yurchak, Superintendent
*Samantha Dembowski
Board of education
The district's
board of education
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The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional are ...
, with 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 day-to-day operation of the district.''Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the North Arlington School District''
New Jersey Department of Education
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, for year ending June 30, 2019. Accessed June 9, 2020. "The North Arlington School District is an instrumentality of the State of New Jersey, established to function as an education institution. The District is a Type II District located in the county of Bergen, State of New Jersey. As a Type II, the District functions independently through a Board of Education (the 'Board'). The Board is five members appointed to three-year terms. The purpose of the District is to educate students in grades K-12."
National Center for Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance ...