The Englewood Cliffs Public Schools is a community public school district that serves children in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Englewood Cliffs, in Bergen County, New Jersey, 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 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 (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 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 in Englewood, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Englewood Public School District 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, 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.
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