Allendale School District


The Allendale School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in the Borough of Allendale, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2017-18 school year, the district and its two schools had an enrollment of 922 students and 75.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
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.
There are two schools, one primary school and one upper elementary school. The middle school program is located within the Brookside building. The administration of the schools includes district-wide services through the Superintendent of Schools and the Board Secretary / Business Administrator. Additionally, in each school the administration includes a Principal.
For high school, public school students in Allendale for grades nine through twelve attend Northern Highlands Regional High School, which also serves students from Ho-Ho-Kus, Upper Saddle River and some of Saddle River's students. As of the 2017-18 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,352 students and 113.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.0:1. New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Northern Highlands Regional High School as the 22nd-best high school of the 328 ranked schools in New Jersey in its 2012 rankings of the "Top Public High Schools" after being ranked 6th of 322 schools in 2010.

Awards and recognition

named the district in its 2008 survey of the "Best Communities for Music Education", which included 110 school districts nationwide.

Schools

Schools in the district are:
Core members of the district's administration are:
The district's board of education has five members who set policy and oversee 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 either one or two seats up for election each year held as part of the November general election. In 2012, school elections were shifted from April to the November general election as part of an effort to reduce the costs of a standalone April vote.