The East Rutherford School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-school through eighth grade from East Rutherford

East Rutherford, New Jersey

East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,913. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located west of Midtown Manhattan....

, in Bergen County

Bergen County, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States. There is also a small annex building across the street which is used for fifth graders which includes a small office and four classrooms. This was built in 2001 because there were too many students and not enough room in Faust. Now McKenzie School (school across town) is used for children from grades Pre-Kindergarten until 4th.

As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 671 students and 68.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.8.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education

New Jersey Department of Education

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 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.

For grades 9 to 12, public school students attend the Henry P. Becton Regional High School

Henry P. Becton Regional High School

Henry P. Becton Regional High School is an American four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from two relatively small communities in Bergen County, New Jersey, operating as part of the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District. Students...

 in East Rutherford, which serves high school students from both Carlstadt

Carlstadt, New Jersey

Carlstadt is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 6,127.Carlstadt was originally formed as a village by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 12, 1860, within Lodi Township. It was named after Dr...

 and East Rutherford. The school is part of the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District

Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District

The Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District is a regional public high school and school district serving students in grades 9-12 from both Carlstadt and East Rutherford , two relatively small communities in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.The district's high school is the Henry P...

.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

• McKenzie School (PreK-4; 374 students)
  • Susan W. Loeb, Principal
• Alfred S. Faust School (5-8; 297 students)
  • Dr. Henry J. Srednicki, Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Kenneth Rota, Superintendent
• Anthony Juskiewicz, Business Administrator

External links

• East Rutherford School District
• East Rutherford School District, National Center for Education Statistics
  National Center for Education Statistics
  The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...