Edgewater Public Schools

Edgewater Public Schools
251 Undercliff Avenue Edgewater, NJ 07020
District information
Grades	K-6
Superintendent	Kerry Postma
Business administrator	Michael Barrella (interim)
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	657 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty	44.8 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio	14.67:1
Other information
District Factor Group	GH
Website	www.edgewaterschools.org
Ind. Per Pupil District Spending Rank (*) K-6 Average %± vs. Average 1A Total Spending $16,457 20 $18,891 -12.9% 1 Budgetary Cost 11,280 6 13,649 -17.4% 2 Classroom Instruction 6,932 5 8,366 -17.1% 6 Support Services 1,459 7 2,161 -32.5% 8 Administrative Cost 1,320 13 1,467 -10.0% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,510 26 1,552 -2.7% 13 Extracurricular Activities 16 12 39 -59.0% 16 Median Teacher Salary 51,816 9 57,437 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=59

The Edgewater Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through sixth grades from Edgewater, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school (at the time) had an enrollment of 657 students and 44.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.67:1.^[1] With district enrollment increasing rapidly, George Washington School opened in September 2012, having been constructed with a third floor to accommodate enrollment growth in the district that was anticipated to rise from 628 in 2011 to as much as 925 in 2015.^[3]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-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]

For seventh through twelfth grades, public school students are sent to the Leonia Public Schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship.^[5][6] Schools in the district attended by Edgewater students (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[7]) are Leonia Middle School^[8] for grades 7 and 8 (which had 477 students in grades 6 - 8), and Leonia High School^[9] which had 681 students in grades 9 - 12.^[10]

School

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[11]) are:^[12]

• Eleanor Van Gelder School^[13] serves grades 3-6 (with an enrollment of 611 students in K-6 as of 2010-11)
• George Washington School^[14] serves grades PreK-2

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[15]

• Kerry Postma, Superintendent^[16]
• Michael Barrella, Interim Board Secretary / Business Administrator

References

1. District information for Edgewater School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 27, 2014.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. Almenas, Maxim. "Edgewater's George Washington school to get a third floor", Edgewater View, June 13, 2011. Accessed September 27, 2014.
4. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 27, 2014.
5. Leonia Public Schools 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 19, 2015. "We are a pre K-12 district employing over 300 professional educators and support personnel who serve 1840 students. Our community expands in grades 7-12 to include students from Edgewater."
6. At a Glance, Leonia Public Schools. Accessed September 27, 2014. "Enrollment is 1827. Of this, 319 are Edgewater students in grades 7-12.
7. School Data for the Leonia Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 27, 2014.
8. Leonia Middle School, Leonia Public Schools. Accessed September 27, 2014.
9. Leonia High School, Leonia Public Schools. Accessed September 27, 2014.
10. New Jersey School Directory for the Leonia Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 27, 2014.
11. School Data for the Edgewater Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 27, 2014.
12. New Jersey School Directory for the Edgewater Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 27, 2014.
13. Eleanor Van Gelder School, Edgewater Public Schools. Accessed September 27, 2014.
14. George Washington School, Edgewater Public Schools. Accessed September 27, 2014.
15. New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 27, 2014.
16. Superintendent, Edgewater School District. Accessed September 27, 2014.

External links

• Edgewater Schools School
• Eleanor Van Gelder School's 2012–13 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Edgewater Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
• Leonia Public Schools
• Leonia Middle School

Coordinates: 40°49′19″N 73°58′43″W / 40.822044°N 73.978714°W