Cresskill Public Schools
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The Cresskill Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district
School district
School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...

 serve students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Cresskill
Cresskill, New Jersey
Cresskill is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,573. The town got its name from the watercress that grew in its streams, or "kills"....

 in Bergen County
Bergen County, New Jersey
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, New Jersey
New Jersey
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. The district is governed by a Board of Education
Board of education
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 and administered by a Superintendent of Schools, a School Business Administrator, and three principals.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 1,690 students and 103.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE
Full-time equivalent
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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.4.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education
New Jersey Department of Education
The New Jersey Department of Education administers state and federal aid programs affecting more than 1.4 million public and non-public elementary and secondary school children in the state of New Jersey. The department is headquartered in Trenton.The Department is responsible for ensuring that...

 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.

Awards and recognition

In Newsweek
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'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.

Cresskill High School was the 15th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly
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magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2007-08 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics
National Center for Education Statistics
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) are:

Elementary Schools (K-5)
Middle Schools (6-8)
High School (9-12)
  • Cresskill High School
    Cresskill High School
    Cresskill High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Cresskill in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Cresskill Public Schools....

     with 788 students in grades 9-12

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:
  • Dr. Loretta Bellina - Superintendent
  • Antoinette Kelly - Business Administrator, Board Secretary

External links

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