The Oradell Public School District is a community public school district

School district

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 that serves students in Kindergarten through sixth grade from Oradell

Oradell, New Jersey

Oradell is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. At the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 7,978. The borough's territory includes a dam on the Hackensack River that forms the Oradell Reservoir...

, in Bergen County

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, New Jersey

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, United States

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. The Oradell Public School District consists of one school, Oradell Public School.

Oradell and neighboring River Edge

River Edge, New Jersey

River Edge is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 11,340.The community was incorporated as the borough of Riverside by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on June 30, 1894, from portions of Midland Township, at the...

 share a combined school district for 7th through 12th grades, River Dell Regional School District

River Dell Regional School District

The River Dell Regional School District is a regional school district serving students in grades 7 - 12 from the Bergen County, New Jersey communities of Oradell and River Edge ....

 which was established in 1958. Students attend River Dell Regional Middle School in River Edge and River Dell Regional High School

River Dell Regional High School

River Dell High School is a four-year comprehensive regional public high school, part of the River Dell Regional School District, which is shared with the neighboring communities of Oradell and River Edge in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States...

 in Oradell.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 794 students and 46.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.3. The average class size was 20.9, while the state average was 18.9.The administration costs were 11.9% above average while the support services costs were 1.1% below average and classroom instruction costs were 17.2% below average. The high administrative costs coupled with the low support services and classroom instruction costs makes this district a prime candidate to regionalize.

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 "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.

School

• Oradell Public School served 794 students in grades K-6 as of the 2007-08 school year.
• The 2006-07 school report card shows that in 6 of the 9 student performance indicator assessments that the Oradell Public School District had a higher percentage of students being partially proficient then the DFG (District Factor Group) average.
• The 2005-06 school report card had similar poor results in 6 of the 9 student performance indicator assessments.

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Rita Cioppi - School Business Administrator
• W. Scott Ryan - Principal

External links

• Oradell Public School District website
• Data for the Oradell Public School District, National Center for Education Statistics
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• River Dell Regional School District
• River Dell Regional High School