Elmwood Park Public Schools

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.[3]

Elmwood Park Public Schools
Address
60 East 53rd Street Elmwood Park, NJ 07407
Coordinates	40.902267°N 74.116652°W / 40.902267; -74.116652
District information
Grades	pre-K to 12
Superintendent	Anthony Iachetti
Business administrator	John DiPaola
Schools	5
Students and staff
Enrollment	2,649 (as of 2017–18)[1]
Faculty	183.2 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	14.5:1[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

As of the 2017–18 school year, the district, comprising five schools, had an enrollment of 2,649 students and 183.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.5:1.[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.[4]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2017–18 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[5]) are:[6]

Elementary schools

• Gantner Avenue Elementary School[7] with 351 students in grades K-5
  • Allison Jackter, Principal
• Gilbert Avenue Elementary School[8] with 446 students in grades K-5
  • Karen Fasouletos, Principal
• Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School[9] with 469 students in grades PreK-5
  • Dominick Silla, Principal

Middle school

• Memorial Middle School[10] with 588 students in grades 6-8
  • Corinne DiMartino, Principal

High school

• Elmwood Park Memorial High School[11] with 735 students in grades 9-12
  • 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.[12][13]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[14][15]

• Anthony Iachetti, Superintendent
• John DiPaola, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

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.[16] Egan was replaced by Angela DeSimone in January 2015.[17]

Board of Education

The district's board of education has 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.[18][19]

References

1. District information for Elmwood Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. Elmwood Park Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed March 3, 2020. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through twelve in the Elmwood Park School District. Composition: The Elmwood Park School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Elmwood Park."
4. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 22, 2014.
5. School Data for the Elmwood Park Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
6. New Jersey School Directory for the Elmwood Park Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
7. Gantner Avenue Elementary School, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed March 3, 2020.
8. Gilbert Avenue Elementary School, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed March 3, 2020.
9. Sixteenth Avenue Elementary School, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed March 3, 2020.
10. Memorial Middle School, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed March 3, 2020.
11. Elmwood Park High School, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed March 3, 2020.
12. 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."
13. 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."
14. Administration, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed March 3, 2020.
15. New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County , New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
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."
17. Harris, Chris. "Angelo DeSimone former Ridgewood superintendent of business to become Elmwood Park schools new fiscal monitor", The Record (Bergen County) 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."
18. New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election, New Jersey Department of Education, updated February 16, 2018. Accessed January 26, 2020.
19. Board of Education, Elmwood Park Public Schools. Accessed March 3, 2020.

External links

• Elmwood Park Public Schools
• Elmwood Park Public Schools's 2015–16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• Elmwood Park Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics