Englewood Public School District

The Englewood Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Englewood, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.^[3] The district's offices are in the Administration Building at the Russell C. Major Liberty School.^[4]

Englewood Public School District
Address
12 Tenafly Road Englewood , Bergen County, New Jersey, 07631 United States
Coordinates	40.897206°N 73.979371°W / 40.897206; -73.979371
District information
Grades	pre-K to 12
Superintendent	Marnie Hazelton
Business administrator	Cheryl Balletto
Schools	5
Students and staff
Enrollment	2,923 (as of 2021–22)[1]
Faculty	247.0 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	11.8:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	DE
Website	www.epsd.org
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $21,231 61 $18,891 12.4% 1 Budgetary Cost 16,544 63 14,783 11.9% 2 Classroom Instruction 9,368 61 8,763 6.9% 6 Support Services 2,924 61 2,392 22.2% 8 Administrative Cost 1,811 59 1,485 22.0% 10 Operations & Maintenance 2,073 62 1,783 16.3% 13 Extracurricular Activities 337 18 268 25.7% 16 Median Teacher Salary 58,950 17 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 2021–22 school year, the district, comprising five schools, had an enrollment of 2,923 students and 247.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1.^[1]

Students from Englewood Cliffs attend Dwight Morrow High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Englewood Cliffs Public Schools.^[5] In 2013, the Englewood Cliffs district announced plans to consider ending the sending relationship by creating its own high school, possibly in conjunction with the Englewood Cliffs campus of Saint Peter's University.^[6]

The district participates in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program at Dwight Morrow High School, having been approved on November 2, 1999, as one of the first ten districts statewide to participate in the program, which allows non-resident students to attend school in the district at no cost to their parents, with tuition covered by the resident district.^[7] Available slots are announced annually by grade.^[8] The Dwight Morrow choice program has been the state's largest.^[5][9]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-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.^[10]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2021–22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics)^[11] are:^[12][13]

Preschool

• D. A. Quarles Early Childhood Center^[14] with 430 students in grades PreK-K
  • Arlene Ng, principal

Elementary schools

• Dr. John Grieco Elementary School^[15] with 348 students in grades 1-2
  • Daniela Small-Bailey, principal
• Dr. Leroy McCloud School^[16] with 490 students in grades 3-5. The school had been known as Cleveland School until 2009, when it was named in memory of the district's first African-American principal, Dr. Leroy McCloud, who had a 50-year career in the district.^[17]
  • Dorian Milteer, principal

Middle school

• Janis E. Dismus Middle School^[18] with 547 students in grades 6-8
  • Lamarr Thomas, principal

High school

• Dwight Morrow High School^[19] / Academies @ Englewood^[20] with 1,003 students in grades 9-12
  • Joe Armental, principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[21][22][23]

• Marnie Hazelton, superintendent^[24]
• Cheryl Balletto, business administrator and board secretary

Ronel Cook, who had taken office as superintendent for the 2022-23 school year, was killed in a car crash in November 2022.^[25]

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 (since 2014) as part of the November general election. 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.^[22][26][27]

Academic performance

As of 2017^[update] the district's averages in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) examinations were below the averages of the State of New Jersey and of Bergen County as a whole.^[28]