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.

North Bergen School District
Address
7317 Kennedy Boulevard North Bergen , Hudson County, New Jersey, 07047 United States
Coordinates	40.75738°N 74.045839°W / 40.75738; -74.045839
District information
Grades	pre-K to 12
Superintendent	George J. Solter Jr.
Business administrator	Steven Somick
Schools	8
Students and staff
Enrollment	7,165 (as of 2023–24)[1]
Faculty	553.4 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	13.0:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	B
Website	www.northbergen.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $15,430 7 $18,891 −18.3% 1 Budgetary Cost 12,534 14 14,783 −15.2% 2 Classroom Instruction 7,468 9 8,763 −14.8% 6 Support Services 1,638 12 2,392 −31.5% 8 Administrative Cost 1,621 77 1,485 9.2% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,477 34 1,783 −17.2% 13 Extracurricular Activities 239 49 268 −10.8% 16 Median Teacher Salary 72,250 87 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-12 districts with more than 3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=103

McKinley School (left) and North Bergen High School (right)

As of the 2023–24 school year, the district, comprised of eight schools, had an enrollment of 7,165 students and 553.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1.^[1]

The district had been 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.^[3]

Students from Guttenberg attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Guttenberg Public School District.^[4][5]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2023–24 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[6]) are:^[7][8][9]

Elementary schools

• Franklin Elementary School^[10] (524 students; in grades 1–8)
  • Hamza Abdelhadi, principal^[11]
• Robert Fulton Elementary School^[12] (885; K-8)
  • Thelma Noreen Garcia, princial^[13]
• John F. Kennedy Elementary School^[14] (566; 1–8)
  • Frank Bafumi, principal^[15]
• Lincoln Elementary School^[16] (1,209; PreK–8)
  • Nicholas Sacco, principal^[17]
• Horace Mann Elementary School^[18] (968; 1–8)
  • Maria Alonso, principal^[19]
• McKinley Elementary School^[20] (320; K–8)
  • Joseph Bartulovich, principal^[21]
• Polk Street Elementary School^[22] (258; K–8)
  • Adamarys Galvin, principal^[23]

High school

• North Bergen High School^[24] (2,384; 9–12)
  • Richard Locricchio, principal^[25]

After High Tech High School moved to a new facility in Secaucus 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.^[26][27]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[28][29]

• 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.^[30][31][32] 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.^[33]