Elmwood Park Public Schools

Elmwood Park Public Schools
60 East 53rd Street Elmwood Park, NJ 07407
District information
Grades	pre-K to 12
Superintendent	Richard D. Tomko
Business administrator	Wayne Demikoff (interim)
Schools	5
Students and staff
Enrollment	2,480 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty	151.7 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio	16.35:1
Other information
District Factor Group	CD
Website	www.elmwoodparkschools.org
Ind. Per Pupil District Spending Rank (*) K-12 Average %± vs. Average 1A Total Spending $14,543 2 $18,891 -23.0% 1 Budgetary Cost 9,469 1 14,783 -35.9% 2 Classroom Instruction 5,015 1 8,763 -42.8% 6 Support Services 1,562 5 2,392 -34.7% 8 Administrative Cost 1,494 32 1,485 0.6% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,105 3 1,783 -38.0% 13 Extracurricular Activities 199 2 268 -25.7% 16 Median Teacher Salary 54,360 1 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-12 districts with 1,800-3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=68

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, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 2,480 students and 151.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.35:1.^[1]

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 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[4]) are:^[5]

Elementary schools

• Gantner Avenue Elementary School^[6] (grades K-5; 359 students)
  • Allison Jackter, Principal
• Gilbert Avenue Elementary School^[7] (K-5; 358)
  • David Saper, Principal
• Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School^[8] (K-5; 437)
  • Dominick Silla, Principal

Middle school

• Memorial Middle School^[9] (6-8; 558)
  • Anthony Grieco, Principal

High school

• Elmwood Park Memorial High School^[10] (9-12; 768)
  • David Warner, Principal

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.^[11][12]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[13][14]

• Richard D. Tomko, Superintendent^[15]
• Wayne Demikoff, Interim Business Administrator / Board Secretary
• Tom Egan, State Monitor (Appointed by Secretary of Education Christopher Cerf)^[16]

Board of Education

The Elmwood Park Board of Education is made up of nine voting members who are elected to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year. The Board of Education is primarily responsible for approving or disapproving the Superintendent's agenda. Elections for Board of Education were traditionally held on the third Tuesday in April; however, beginning with the 2012 election, the Board of Education election was shifted to the November general election.

References

1. District information for Elmwood Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 22, 2014.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 22, 2014.
4. School Data for the Elmwood Park Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 22, 2014.
5. New Jersey School Directory for the Elmwood Park Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 22, 2014.
6. Gantner Avenue Elementary School, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed November 22, 2014.
7. Gilbert Avenue Elementary School, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed November 22, 2014.
8. Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed November 22, 2014.
9. Memorial Middle School, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed November 22, 2014.
10. Elmwood Park High School, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed November 22, 2014.
11. 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."
12. Cooper, Darren. "Go crazy, EP! Losing streak kaput", The Record (Bergen County), October 1, 2006. Accessed April 19, 2013. "Elmwood Park snapped North Jersey's longest football losing streak with a convincing 33-14 win over Manchester on Saturday."
13. Administration, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed November 22, 2014.
14. New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 22, 2014.
15. Superintendent of Schools, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed November 22, 2014.
16. Coutros, Evonne. "State steers Elmwood Park schools out of crushing debt", The Record (Bergen County), 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."

External links

• Elmwood Park Public Schools
• Elmwood Park Public Schools's 2012–13 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• Elmwood Park Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

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