Maywood Public Schools

The Maywood Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from the Borough of Maywood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.[3]

Maywood Public Schools
Address
452 Maywood Avenue Maywood, NJ 07607 United States
Coordinates	40.900763°N 74.06298°W / 40.900763; -74.06298
District information
Grades	PreK-8
Superintendent	Michael Jordan
Business administrator	Jennifer Pfohl
Schools	2
Students and staff
Enrollment	1,001 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Faculty	79.9 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	12.5:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	FG
Website	District website
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-8 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $16,051 21 $18,891 −15.0% 1 Budgetary Cost 11,059 7 14,159 −21.9% 2 Classroom Instruction 7,086 7 8,659 −18.2% 6 Support Services 1,536 11 2,167 −29.1% 8 Administrative Cost 1,195 7 1,547 −22.8% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,151 9 1,612 −28.6% 13 Extracurricular Activities 86 37 104 −17.3% 16 Median Teacher Salary 57,955 23 61,136 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-8 districts with more than 750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=84

As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising two schools, had an enrollment of 1,001 students and 79.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1.[1]

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

After graduating from Maywood Avenue School, approximately 250 students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades had attended Hackensack High School in Hackensack, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Hackensack Public Schools, together with students from Rochelle Park and South Hackensack. In the wake of rising tuition costs assessed by the Hackensack district, the district has considered a plan under which the relationship with Hackensack would be severed and a new sending relationship would be established with other neighboring districts. In March 2020, the district received approval from the New Jersey Department of Education to end the relationship it had established with Hackensack in 1969 and will begin transitioning incoming ninth graders to Henry P. Becton Regional High School, which serves students from Carlstadt and East Rutherford 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.[5][6]

Awards and recognition

For the 1996-97 school year, Memorial School was formally designated as a National Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.[7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9][10]

• Memorial School[11] with 430 students in grades PreK-3
  • Ray Bauer, Principal
• Maywood Avenue School[12] with 560 students in grades 4-8. The school offers a wide variety of after-school activities ranging from cheerleading to chess club. Older students have the opportunity to contribute to their school newspaper, The Hawk, and their yearbook.
  • Michael Jordan, Principal

Administration

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

• Michael Jordan, Superintendent of Schools[15]
• Jennifer Pfohl, Business Administrator / Board Secretary[16]

Board of education

The district's board of education, with seven 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 either two or three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election.[17][18][19]

References

1. District information for Maywood School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. Maywood School District Board Approved Policy 0110 - Identification, Maywood Public Schools. Accessed April 6, 2020. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Kindergarten through eight in the Maywood School District. Composition: The Maywood School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the Borough of Maywood."
4. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 5, 2014.
5. 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."
6. 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, New Jersey Department of Education, March 2, 2020. Accessed April 6, 2020. "Accordingly, the Commissioner granted the petitioner’s application for severance, subject to establishment of a sending-receiving relationship with the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District for a minimum duration of five years."
7. Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), United States Department of Education. Accessed May 11, 2006.
8. School Data for Maywood Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
9. Schools, Maywood Public Schools. Accessed April 6, 2020.
10. New Jersey School Directory for the Maywood Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
11. Memorial School, Maywood Public Schools. Accessed April 6, 2020.
12. Maywood Avenue School, Maywood Public Schools. Accessed April 6, 2020.
13. Administration, Maywood Public Schools. Accessed April 6, 2020.
14. New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
15. Superintendent, Maywood Public Schools. Accessed April 6, 2020.
16. Business Office, Maywood Public Schools. Accessed April 6, 2020.
17. 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.
18. Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the Maywood Borough School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2018. Accessed April 6, 2020. "The Maywood Board of Education (the "Board" or the "District") is an instrumentality of the State of New Jersey, established to function as an education institution. The Board consists of seven elected officials and is responsible for the fiscal control of the district."
19. Board Members, Maywood Public Schools. Accessed April 6, 2020.

External links

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