Ridgewood Public Schools

Ridgewood Public Schools
49 Cottage Place Ridgewood, NJ 07451
District information
Grades	K-12
Superintendent	Dr. Daniel Fishbein
Business administrator	Alfredo Aguilar
Schools	10
Students and staff
Enrollment	5,702 (as of 2011-12)
Faculty	418.5 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio	13.62:1
Other information
District Factor Group	J
Website	http://www.ridgewood.k12.nj.us

The Ridgewood Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from suburban Ridgewood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's 10 schools had an enrollment of 5,702 students and 418.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.62:1.

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

Benjamin Franklin Middle School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive, during the 1998-99 school year.

For the 1993-94 school year, George Washington Middle School was named a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve. For the 1995-96 school year, Benjamin Franklin Middle School was named a "Star School".

The district's high school was the 28th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 28th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 20th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.

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