Editing Little Ferry, New Jersey (section)

==Education==
The [[Little Ferry Public Schools]] serve students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]].<ref>[https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=ac0ba57c153d4ecab3457b3f471fe54d Little Ferry Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed February 8, 2024. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through eight in the Little Ferry School District. Composition: The Little Ferry School District is comprised of all the area within the County of Bergen."</ref> As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 806 students and 84.0 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 9.6:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3408760&DistrictID=3408760 District information for Little Ferry Public School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> The district's two school buildings are located across the street from each other.<ref name=AboutUs/> Schools in the district (with 2022–23 enrollment data from the [[National Center for Education Statistics]]<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3408760 School Data for the Little Ferry Public Schools], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>) are 
Washington Elementary School<ref>[https://www.littleferry.k12.nj.us/page/washington-elementary Washington Elementary School], Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed February 8, 2024.</ref> with 445 students in grades PreK-4 and 
Memorial Middle School<ref>[https://www.littleferry.k12.nj.us/page/memorial-middle-school Memorial Middle School], Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed February 8, 2024.</ref> with 342 students in grades 5-8.<ref name=AboutUs>[https://www.littleferry.k12.nj.us/page/about-us About Our District], Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed February 8, 2024. "Our Prek-8 district serves approximately 950 students in two schools located across the street from each other in the town of Little Ferry, New Jersey. Memorial School serves approximately 400 students and houses the Middle School which serves students in grades 5-8..... Washington Elementary School serves approximately 500 students in grades PreK to 4. Grades 2 to 4 attend classes in the Elementary wing of Memorial School. Little Ferry’s 9–12 students attend Ridgefield Park High School in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey."</ref><ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/03/2710 School Performance Reports for the Little Ferry Public School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed April 3, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/2710 New Jersey School Directory for the Little Ferry Public Schools], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>

As Little Ferry does not have its own high school, public school students from the borough attend [[Ridgefield Park High School]] in [[Ridgefield Park, New Jersey|Ridgefield Park]] for [[ninth grade|ninth]] through [[twelfth grade]]s as part of a [[sending/receiving relationship]] with the [[Ridgefield Park Public Schools]] that has been in place since 1953.<ref>James, George. [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/16/nyregion/school-districts-battle-on-tuition-goes-to-court.html "School Districts' Battle On Tuition Goes to Court"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 16, 1989. Accessed February 8, 2024. "School officials in the borough, Little Ferry, which sends 202 students to the 546-student high school, say a partial audit several years ago raised suspicions that Ridgefield Park has overcharged them by hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent years.... Little Ferry, a borough of 1.5 square miles and 9,900 people, has sent its high school students to this neighboring 1.92-square mile village of 12,000 people, since 1953."</ref><ref>Miraglia, Mary K. [http://ridgefieldpark.dailyvoice.com/neighbors/family-seeks-handicapped-van-for-moonachie-woman-left-homebound-by-hit-run/724301/ "Little Ferry Schools Not Responsible For $1.5M Gap In Ridgefield Park"], Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights Daily Voice, January 13, 2016. Accessed February 8, 2024. "Ridgefield Park Superintendent Eric Koenig reached out to Little Ferry Superintendent Frank Scarafile after his board meeting Jan. 7 to go over plans for filling the budget shortfall. Koenig assured him Ridgefield Park won’t be trying to make any changes to the sending - receiving contract that would impose new tuition in the current year, according to a letter Scarafile sent to his board members."</ref><ref name=AboutUs/> As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,174 students and 87.8 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 13.4:1.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3413800&ID=341380000754 School data for Ridgefield Park Jr Sr High School], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>

Public school students from the borough, and all of Bergen County, are eligible to attend the secondary education programs offered by the [[Bergen County Technical Schools]], which include the [[Bergen County Academies]] in [[Hackensack, New Jersey|Hackensack]], Applied Technology High School, located at [[Bergen Community College]] in Paramus, and the Bergen County Technical High Schools in [[Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Campus|Teterboro]] and [[Bergen County Technical High School, Paramus Campus|Paramus]]. The district offers programs on a shared-time or full-time basis, with admission based on a selective application process and tuition covered by the student's home school district.<ref>[http://bcts.bergen.org/index.php/about-us About Us], [[Bergen County Technical Schools]]. Accessed December 9, 2013.</ref><ref>[https://bcts.bergen.org/index.php/admissions Admissions], [[Bergen County Technical Schools]]. Accessed December 29, 2016.</ref>