Little Falls Township Public Schools
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| Little Falls Township Public Schools | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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560 Main Street
, Passaic County, New Jersey, 07424United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°52′59″N 74°14′03″W / 40.882965°N 74.234039°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Grades | PreK-8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Superintendent | Tracey L. Marinelli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business administrator | Christopher Jones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Schools | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Enrollment | 865 (as of 2018–19)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Faculty | 94.6 FTEs[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Student–teacher ratio | 9.1:1[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| District Factor Group | FG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | District website | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Little Falls Township Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Little Falls, in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3]
As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of three schools, had an enrollment of 865 students and 94.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.1:1.[1]
The New Jersey Department of Education classified the district 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. The categories from lowest socioeconomic status to highest are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[4]
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.[5][6] As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,186 students and 102.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.6:1.[7]
Little Falls School #3 was honored by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2019, one of nine schools in the state recognized as Exemplary High Performing Schools.[8]
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[9]) are:[10][11][12][13]
- Elementary schools
- Little Falls School #2[14] with 301 students in grades PreK-2
- Jill Castaldo, principal
- Little Falls School #3[15] with 184 students in grades 3-4
- Nicole Dilkes, principal
- Middle school
- Little Falls School #1[16] with 376 students in grades 5-8
- Dana Sprague, principal
