The Englewood Cliffs Public Schools is a community public school district

School district

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 that serves children in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Englewood Cliffs

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Englewood Cliffs is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 5,281. The borough houses the world headquarters of CNBC and the American headquarters of Unilever, and is home to both Ferrari and Maserati North America.Englewood Cliffs...

, in Bergen County

Bergen County, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States.

As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 445 students and 49 classroom teachers (on an FTE

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.08.

Based on 2010 data for the Upper School, 61.6% of students speak English as their primary language at home, with Korean

Korean language

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 (14.4%) being the most common non-English language. 1.1% of students are classified as having limited English proficiency. 48.7% of students in the school are classified as Asian / Pacific Islander.

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 "I", the second 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 high school, public school students attend Dwight Morrow High School

Dwight Morrow High School

Dwight Morrow High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Englewood, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Englewood Public School District. The school also serves students from Englewood Cliffs, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship...

 in Englewood

Englewood, New Jersey

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, as part of a sending/receiving relationship

Sending/receiving relationship

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 with the Englewood Public School District

Englewood Public School District

The Englewood Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Englewood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Its headquarters is in the District Administration Building at the Russell C...

 that dates back to 1967. With few Englewood Cliffs students attending Dwight Morrow, a school with a majority African-American student body, officials from Englewood Cliffs have made repeated efforts dating back to the mid-1980s to end the relationship with Englewood and switch over to have students attend Tenafly High School

Tenafly High School

Tenafly High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in grades nine through twelve from Tenafly, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Tenafly Public Schools...

, a practice that many parents were doing by paying tuition to attend the Tenafly school. In 2003, the New Jersey State Board of Education overturned an injunction that prohibited other public schools from accepting students from Englewood Cliffs on a tuition basis, arguing that the establishment of the magnet Academies@Englewood program within Dwight Morrow will allow the Englewood district to draw white students to the district.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

• North Cliff School with 182 students in grades K–2
• Upper School with 263 students in grades 3–8

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Dominic Mucci, Superintendent of Schools
• Mary Welfel, Board Secretary / Business Administrator

External links

• Englewood Cliffs Public Schools
• Data for the Englewood Cliffs Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
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