Mountain Lakes Schools

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Coordinates40°53′10″N 74°27′14″W / 40.886022°N 74.453905°W / 40.886022; -74.453905
GradesPreK-12
SuperintendentBrad Siegel
Business administratorAlex Ferreira
Mountain Lakes Schools
Address
96 Powerville Road
, Morris County, New Jersey, 07046
United States
Coordinates40°53′10″N 74°27′14″W / 40.886022°N 74.453905°W / 40.886022; -74.453905
District information
GradesPreK-12
SuperintendentBrad Siegel
Business administratorAlex Ferreira
Schools4
Students and staff
Enrollment1,348 (as of 2020–21)[1]
Faculty146.7 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio9.2:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupJ
Websitewww.mlschools.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending
Rank
(*)
K-12
average
 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$23,98948$18,89127.0%
1Budgetary Cost20,1024914,78336.0%
2Classroom Instruction11,953498,76336.4%
6Support Services3,400452,39242.1%
8Administrative Cost1,845381,48524.2%
10Operations & Maintenance2,268481,78327.2%
13Extracurricular Activities62140268131.7%
16Median Teacher Salary79,7324864,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with up to 1,800 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=49

The Mountain Lakes Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Mountain Lakes, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3]

As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprising four schools, had an enrollment of 1,348 students and 146.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.2:1.[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.[4]

Students from Boonton Township attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[5]

Briarcliff Middle School was one of nine public schools recognized in 2017 as Blue Ribbon Schools by the United States Department of Education.[6]

The district's high school was the 7th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 9th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9][10][11][12]

Elementary schools
  • Wildwood Elementary School[13] with 428 students in grades K-5
    • Patrick Higgins, principal[14]
Middle school
  • Briarcliff Middle School[15] with 281 students in grades 6-8
    • Erik Carlson, principal
High school
Ungraded
  • Lake Drive School serves as a regional school for deaf and hard of hearing students from birth through high school, with students from nearly 100 communities in 12 New Jersey counties.[17] with 57 students in grades PreK-8
    • Julie Lazeration, principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[10][18]

  • Brad Siegel, superintendent[19]
  • Alex Ferreira, business administrator and board secretary[20]

Board of education

References

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