Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District Explained

Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District
Logo Alt:This is the logo for the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District.
Superintendent:Dario Sforza
Businessadmin:Jessenia Kan
Address:120 Paterson Avenue
Zipcode:07073
Country:United States
Coordinates:40.8326°N -74.0941°W
Schools:1
Enrollment:539 (as of 2022–23)
Ratio:11.9:1
Free Text:CD

The Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District is a regional public high school and school district serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from both Carlstadt and East Rutherford, two relatively small communities in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[1] [2] Students from Maywood attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 539 students and 45.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1.[3]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education 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.[4]

History

After a fire destroyed half of the former East Rutherford High School in October 1966,[5] [6] efforts were made to create a regional high school district, which culminated with the passage of a referendum in June 1968.[7]

The new high school was named in honor of Henry Becton, chairman of Becton, Dickinson and Company, who donated part of the company's original East Rutherford property to be used as a site for the construction of the school.[8] Constructed on a 2.6acres site, the building was designed to accommodate an enrollment of 1,100 students and was completed at a cost of $4.3 million (equivalent to $ million in)[9]

The high school building opened in September 1971 with 800 students in attendance.[6] [10]

Starting in 2014, the district began discussions with the Wallington Public Schools for a proposal in which the 350 Wallington students attending Wallington High School would be added to the 500 already attending Becton Regional High School for grades 9-12. The consolidation would allow for Wallington High School to be reused for other purposes, avoids the need to build a new high school building and could allow for elimination of duplicate administrators.[11]

In March 2020, the Maywood Public Schools received approval from the New Jersey Department of Education to end the relationship it had established with the Hackensack Public Schools in 1969 to send students to Hackensack High School. Maywood will begin transitioning incoming ninth graders to Henry P. Becton Regional High School beginning in the 2020–21 school year. The transition would be complete after the final group of twelfth graders graduates from Hackensack High School at the end of the 2023–24 school year. Maywood cited costs of nearly $14,800 per student in 2018 to send high-school students to Hackensack and an annual cost in excess of $15,000 under a proposed new three-year agreement, while Becton would start at a per-pupil cost of $10,500 in 2020–21 as part of a ten-year deal that would have a maximum cost per Maywood student of $11,800 in the final year of the agreement.[12] [13]

School

Schools in the district (with 2022–23 enrollment from the National Center for Education Statistics[14]) are:[15] [16]

Administration

Core members of the district's / school's administration are:[17] [18]

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of ten 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 three 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.[19] [20] Seats on the board of education are allocated based on the population of the constituent municipalities, with five seats allocated to East Rutherford, four to Carlstadt and one to Maywood.[21]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=2f22ef6322464999a655adf051f867fa Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification
  2. https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/1516/03/0745/000.html Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District 2016 Report Card Narrative
  3. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3402790&DistrictID=3402790 District information for Carlstadt Public School District
  4. http://www.state.nj.us/education/finance/rda/dfg.shtml NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts
  5. Staff. "Fire Destroys Jersey School", The New York Times, October 9, 1966. Accessed January 9, 2018. "A fire destroyed East Rutherford High School tonight."
  6. Lanza, Monica P. "Becton High is a reality at last", Herald News, November 15, 1971. Accessed March 10, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Mrs. Irene Mercoun, president of the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Board of Education, formed in 1968, traced the chain of events that culminated in the reality of a regional school for the two towns. 'It all started with a nightmare for East Rutherford High School and the Municipal Square School,' Mrs. Mercoun said. The nightmare was a fire that destroyed the Municipal Square School which was being used by high school students from Carlstadt and East Rutherford. The fire cost the system half of its available facilities for high school students."
  7. http://www.bectonhs.org/bhs/District/A%20Dedication%20of%20Time/Ceremony%20Program.pdf Clock Dedication and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
  8. http://www.bd.com/contentmanager/b_article.asp?Item_ID=24244&ContentType_ID=1&BusinessCode=20001&d=BD+Worldwide&s=&dTitle=&dc=&dcTitle= BD Director Emeritus Henry P. Becton Sr. Dies at 95
  9. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99032280/construction-of-becton-regional-hs/ "New Becton H.S. - 'out of this world'"
  10. McGuire. Jane. "New Schools, Smooth Start", The Record, September 10, 1971. Accessed April 3, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Approximately 800 students from Carlstadt and East Rutherford entered the classrooms of the Henry P. Becton Regional High School yesterday for the first time."
  11. Adely, Hannan. "Becton regional district considers adding Wallington", The Record, January 18, 2015. Accessed March 23, 2015. "Now, the Becton Regional High School district, which takes students from East Rutherford and Carlstadt, is mulling a move to enroll students from Wallington. Supporters say pooling resources would pay for more classes, programs and electives and save Wallington the cost of building another high school.... Carlstadt and East Rutherford each have their own K-8 districts, and the high school has 500 students from the two boroughs. A merger with Wallington would bring in about 350 more."
  12. Stoltz, Marsha A. "Here's why Maywood will send its students to Becton instead of Hackensack High School", The Record, March 9, 2020. Accessed April 6, 2020. "Maywood high school students will have four years to phase out of Hackensack High School and into Henry P. Becton Regional High School in East Rutherford. The process will begin in September, when current Maywood eighth-graders will be the first to attend Becton as freshmen, according to a March 7 joint announcement by the superintendents of the two districts.... The two districts signed a seven-year send/receive contract in 2010 with a per-pupil tuition of $13,125 and a 2% yearly increase. In January 2018, Maywood paid Hackensack's school district $14,781 per student, or $3.7 million for 249 students. It rejected a three-year contract proposed by Hackensack of $15,076 per student the first year and a 5% increase the second.... Maywood eventually agreed to a 10-year contract with Becton at $10,500 per student, with a 2% increase for the fifth contract year and a cap of $11,800 by the 10th year. Becton now has students from East Rutherford and Carlstadt."
  13. https://www.nj.gov/education/legal/commissioner/2020/82-20.pdf Board of Education of the Borough of Maywood, Bergen County, Petitioner, v. Board of Education of the City of Hackensack, Bergen County, Respondent Final Decision
  14. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3402800 School Data for Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District
  15. https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/03/0745 School Performance Reports for the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional High School District
  16. https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/3060 New Jersey School Directory for the Maywood Public Schools
  17. https://www.bectonhs.org/about-us/faculty-staff-directory Faculty and Staff Directory
  18. https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/district/county/bergen New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County
  19. https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/dwb/DistrictByTypeList2018.pdf New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election
  20. https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/acfr/search/23/0745.pdf#page=44 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District
  21. https://district.bectonhs.org/board-of-education Board of Education

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