Little Falls Township Public Schools

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Little Falls Township Public Schools
560 Main Street
Little Falls, NJ 07424
District information
Grades K-8
Superintendent William Petrick
Business administrator Michael Leary (interim)
Schools 3
Students and staff
Enrollment 916 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 73.9 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 12.40:1
Other information
District Factor Group FG
Website http://www.lfnjschools.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-8
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1A Total Spending $16,801 34 $18,891 -11.1%
1 Budgetary Cost 14,449 47 14,159 2.0%
2 Classroom Instruction 9,398 67 8,659 8.5%
6 Support Services 2,143 49 2,167 -1.1%
8 Administrative Cost 1,503 33 1,547 -2.8%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,314 20 1,612 -18.5%
13 Extracurricular Activities 64 18 104 -38.5%
16 Median Teacher Salary 47,663 1 61,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with more than 750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=84

The Little Falls Township Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Little Falls, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 916 students and 73.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.40:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-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.[3]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students in public school attend Passaic Valley Regional High School, which also serves students from Totowa and Woodland Park. The school facility is located in Little Falls.[4]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[5]) are:[6][7]

Elementary schools
  • Little Falls School #2[8] with 211 students in grades kindergarten through two
  • Little Falls School #3[9] with 196 students in grades three and four
Middle school
  • Little Falls School #1[10] with 388 students in grades five through eight

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[11][12]

  • William Petrick, Superintendent
  • Michael Leary, Interim Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for Little Falls Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed January 26, 2015.
  4. ↑ District Information, Passaic Valley High School. Accessed January 26, 2015. "The regional district which is served by Passaic Valley High School is comprised of the communities of Little Falls, Totowa Borough and Woodland Park."
  5. ↑ School Data for the Little Falls Township Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 26, 2015.
  6. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Little Falls Township Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed January 26, 2015.
  7. ↑ Passaic County 2014-15 Public School Directory, Passaic County, New Jersey. Accessed January 27, 2015.
  8. ↑ Little Falls School #2, Little Falls Township Public Schools. Accessed January 26, 2015.
  9. ↑ Little Falls School #3, Little Falls Township Public Schools. Accessed January 26, 2015.
  10. ↑ Little Falls School #1, Little Falls Township Public Schools. Accessed January 26, 2015.
  11. ↑ District Administration, Little Falls Township Public Schools. Accessed January 26, 2015.
  12. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Passaic County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed January 26, 2015.

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