Elmwood Park Public Schools Explained
Elmwood Park Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Elmwood Park, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[1]
As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprising five schools, had an enrollment of 2,586 students and 195.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1.[2]
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.[3]
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[4]) are:[5] [6]
- Elementary schools
- Gantner Avenue Elementary School[7] with 327 students in grades K-5
- Allison Jackter, principal[8]
- Gilbert Avenue Elementary School[9] with 392 students in grades K-5
- Karen Fasouletos, principal[8]
- Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School[10] with 427 students in grades PreK-5
- Dominick Silla, principal[8]
- Middle school
- Memorial Middle School[11] with 643 students in grades 6-8
- Corinne DiMartino, principal[12]
- High school
Athletics
The high school's football team had a 41-game losing streak that extended from 2002 until September 30, 2006, when they defeated the Manchester Regional High School Falcons, 33-14, snapping the four-year-long losing streak.[15] [16]
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[17] [18]
- Anthony Iachetti, superintendent
- Mark S. Jacobus, business administrator and board secretary[19]
Tom Egan was appointed as fiscal monitor in August 2013 by Secretary of Education Christopher Cerf to address a persistent imbalance in the district's finances, which ended in deficit for two consecutive school years.[20] Egan was replaced by Angela DeSimone in January 2015.[21]
Board of education
The district's board of education is composed of nine members who set policy and oversee 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.[22] [23] [24]
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=32b39a43d10143cc9b9a54a5e2dd638c Elmwood Park Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification
- https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3404660&DistrictID=3404660 District information for Elmwood Park School District
- http://www.state.nj.us/education/finance/rda/dfg.shtml NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts
- https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3404660 School Data for the Elmwood Park Public Schools
- https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/03/1345 School Performance Reports for the Elmwood Park School District
- https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/1345 New Jersey School Directory for the Elmwood Park Public Schools
- https://www.elmwoodparkschools.org/Domain/10 Gantner Avenue Elementary School
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j-cNSNL9pRDBTrjcGK7eR8p6Ni99YnO-/view Elementary School Handbook 2021-2022
- https://www.elmwoodparkschools.org/Domain/11 Gilbert Avenue Elementary School
- https://www.elmwoodparkschools.org/Domain/12 Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School
- https://www.elmwoodparkschools.org/Domain/9 Memorial Middle School
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xHuQQKXXLJ9fQEL0aWJ5K3HyVlDyKqF1gW7fcuRY1uU/edit 2022-2023 Student Handbook
- https://www.elmwoodparkschools.org/Domain/8 Elmwood Park High School
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lgWXeUgNkPvQO8EubnJ5dazyMP35G7pL-wISmfSwICo/edit 2022-2023 Student Handbook
- Conley, Jen. "Giants Name Elmwood Park's Luciani Coach Of The Week", New York Giants, October 3, 2006. Accessed April 12, 2011. "Elmwood Park Memorial High School football, notorious in Northern New Jersey for its 41 game losing streak, finally snapped that record by defeating Manchester Regional High School 33-14 and winning its first game since 2002."
- Cooper, Darren. "Go crazy, EP! Losing streak kaput", The Record, October 1, 2006. Accessed March 6, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Elmwood Park snapped North Jersey's longest football losing streak with a convincing 33-14 win over Manchester on Saturday."
- https://nj50010948.schoolwires.net//site/default.aspx?PageType=2&PageModuleInstanceID=484&ViewID=15B23AE3-97B9-480A-BF21-849273355B7A&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=0&Filter=Site%3ABoard%20Office Staff Directory: Board Office
- https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/district/county/bergen New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County
- https://www.elmwoodparkschools.org/domain/72 Business Office
- Coutros, Evonne. "State steers Elmwood Park schools out of crushing debt", The Record, August 26, 2013. Accessed November 22, 2014. "To rein in the costs of busing and paying high out-of-district tuitions for special education students, the district re-created programs, said Tom Egan, who was appointed by the state to monitor the district's fiscal crisis."
- Harris, Chris. "Angelo DeSimone former Ridgewood superintendent of business to become Elmwood Park schools new fiscal monitor", The Record at the Ridgewood Blog, January 10, 2015. Accessed September 14, 2017. "The state has appointed a new monitor to oversee the school district’s finances, the superintendent of schools said Friday. Angelo DeSimone, who has been the state monitor in Garfield since 2013, has taken over in Elmwood Park from Thomas Egan.... Egan, the former business administrator in Bergenfield, was installed in early 2013 to manage the school district’s finances after two consecutive yearly budget deficits."
- https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/dwb/DistrictByTypeList2018.pdf New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election
- https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/acfr/search/23/1345.pdf#page=46 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the Ewing Public Schools
- https://www.elmwoodparkschools.org/domain/16 Board of Education
