North Bergen School District

The North Bergen School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from North Bergen, in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of seven schools, had an enrollment of 7,576 students and 581.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "B", the second-lowest 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.

Students from Guttenberg attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Guttenberg Public School District.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

Elementary schools

• Franklin School (612 students; in grades 1–8)
  • Janet Sandstrom, principal
• Robert Fulton School (1,180; K-8)
• John F. Kennedy School (529; 1–8)
  • Frank Bafumi, principal
• Lincoln School (1,355; PreK-8)
  • Nick Sacco, principal
• Horace Mann School (1,111; 1–8)
  • Pat Tennaro, principal
• McKinley School (334; K-8)

High school

• North Bergen High School (2,376; 9–12)
  • Richard Locricchio, principal

After High Tech High School moved to a new facility in Secaucus, which opened for the 2018–19 school year, the former High Tech High School campus was acquired by the North Bergen district, which plans to construct a new junior high school for grades 7-9 on the site.

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• George J. Solter Jr., superintendent
• Steven Somick, business administrator
• Hugo D. Cabrera, board secretary

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of nine 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 three seats up for election each year held as part of the April school election; a tenth board member is appointed to represent the sending district of Guttenberg. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district. Of the nearly 600 school districts statewide, North Bergen is one of 12 districts with school elections in April, in which voters also decide on passage of the annual school budget.

References

External links

• North Bergen School District
• School Performance Reports for the North Bergen School District, New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the North Bergen School District, National Center for Education Statistics