Fair Lawn Public Schools

Fair Lawn Public Schools
37-01 Fair Lawn Avenue Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
District information
Grades	K-12"
Superintendent	Bruce Watson
Business administrator	Joanne Wilson
Schools	9
Students and staff
Enrollment	4,828 (as of 2014-15)
Faculty	384.3 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio	12.6:1
Other information
District Factor Group	GH
Website	http://www.fairlawnschools.org

The Fair Lawn Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serving students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Fair Lawn in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district's nine schools had an enrollment of 4,828 students and 384.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.6:1.

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

In both the 1990-91 and 1997-98 school years, Fair Lawn High School received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. In 2016, Lyncrest Elementary School was one of ten schools in New Jersey recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education, a recognition celebrating excellence in academics.

In December 2014, Fair Lawn voters approved by a greater than 2-to-1 margin a $12.8 million expansion and capital improvement referendum to be implemented by the Fair Lawn Public Schools that includes roof repairs to several school buildings and added classrooms to enable the initiation of full-day kindergarten.

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