The Little Ferry Public Schools are a community public school district

School district

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 that serves kindergarten through eighth-grade students from Little Ferry

Little Ferry, New Jersey

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 in Bergen County

Bergen County, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States

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.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 958 students and 64.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.0.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education

New Jersey Department of Education

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 as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth 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.

Since Little Ferry does not have its own high school, for grades 9-12, public school students attend Ridgefield Park High School

Ridgefield Park High School

Ridgefield Park High School is a six-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Ridgefield Park, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Ridgefield Park Public Schools...

, in Ridgefield Park

Ridgefield Park, New Jersey

Ridgefield Park is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The population was 12,729 at the 2010 United States Census. Of 566 municipalities statewide, Ridgefield Park is only one of three with a village type of government in New Jersey, along with Loch Arbour and Ridgewood.The...

 only a couple of minutes away, as part of a sending/receiving relationship

Sending/receiving relationship

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 with the Ridgefield Park Public Schools

Ridgefield Park Public Schools

The Ridgefield Park Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from the Village of Ridgefield Park, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States....

 that has been in place since 1953.

Awards and recognition

Memorial School was recognized by Governor Jim McGreevey

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 in 2003 as one of 25 schools selected statewide for the First Annual Governor's School of Excellence award.

Schools

The district contains two schools, which are located across the street from each other. The schools in the district (with 2007-08 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

• Washington School serves Grades Pre-K & 1 (240 students).
  • Carmen Holster - Washington/Memorial Elementary Principal
• Memorial School houses two units (718 students). Memorial Elementary School includes Pre-K and Grades 2 - 4, while Memorial Middle School includes grades 5 - 8 and the Board of Education Offices.
  • Mimi Bair - Memorial Middle School Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration include:

• Frank Scarafile - Superintendent of Schools
• Michael Barrella - Board Secretary/Business Administrator
• Stanley Turitz, Esq. - In-House Attorney

External links

• Little Ferry Public Schools
• Data for the Little Ferry Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
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• Ridgefield Park High School