Editing Ridgefield Park, New Jersey (section)

==Education==
The [[Ridgefield Park Public Schools]] serve students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[twelfth grade]]. As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of four schools, had an enrollment of 2,178 students and 180.0 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 12.1:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3413800&DistrictID=3413800 District information for Ridgefield Park Public School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref> Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the [[National Center for Education Statistics]]<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3413800 School Data for the Ridgefield Park Public Schools], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref>) are 
Grant Elementary School<ref>[https://grant.rpps.net/ Grant Elementary School], Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 2, 2022.</ref> with 244 students in grades K-6, 
Lincoln Elementary School<ref>[https://lincoln.rpps.net/ Lincoln Elementary School], Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 2, 2022.</ref> with 374 students in grades PreK-6, 
Roosevelt Elementary School<ref>[https://roosevelt.rpps.net/ Roosevelt Elementary School], Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 2, 2022.</ref> with 339 students in grades PreK-6 and 
[[Ridgefield Park High School]]<ref>[https://rpjshs.rpps.net/ Ridgefield Park High School], Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 2, 2022.</ref> with 1,189 students in grades 7–12.<ref>[https://www.rpps.net/board_of_education/our_schools Our Schools], Ridgefield Park Public Schools. Accessed December 2, 2022. "They include Grant School, Lincoln School and Roosevelt School, our three Pre-K - 6 elementary schools, and Ridgefield Park Jr./Sr. High School which contains grades 7-12. Our PK - 8th grade students come from Ridgefield Park while our high school includes students from both The Village of Ridgefield Park and the borough of Little Ferry."</ref><ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/03/4380 School Performance Reports for the Ridgefield Park Public School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed April 3, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/4380 New Jersey School Directory for the Ridgefield Park Public Schools], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>

Students from [[Little Ferry, New Jersey|Little Ferry]] attend the high school as part of a [[sending/receiving relationship]] with the [[Little Ferry Public Schools]] that has been in place since 1953.<ref>[https://www.littleferry.k12.nj.us/our_district/about_us About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202021408/https://www.littleferry.k12.nj.us/our_district/about_us |date=February 2, 2020 }}, Little Ferry Public Schools. Accessed February 1, 2020. "The Little Ferry School District is a New Jersey Public School District located in Bergen County, New Jersey. 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.... Little Ferry's 9–12 students attend Ridgefield Park High School in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey."</ref><ref>James, George. [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/16/nyregion/school-districts-battle-on-tuition-goes-to-court.html&pagewanted=all "School Districts' Battle On Tuition Goes to Court"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 16, 1989. Accessed August 19, 2013. "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>

The district is one of the small number in the state with schools recognized by the [[National Blue Ribbon Schools Program]] in consecutive years, with Grant Elementary School earning the designation in 2010 and Lincoln Elementary School being honored in 2011.<ref>Decicco, Robin. [http://www.northjersey.com/news/130404273_Lincoln_School_earns_Blue_Ribbon_.html "Ridgefield Park's Lincoln School recognized as a Blue Ribbon School"], ''Ridgefield Park Patriot'', September 23, 2011. Accessed August 19, 2013. "Lincoln Elementary School was recently named a Blue Ribbon School by the New Jersey Department of Education, the most prestigious title in education, said Chris Onorato, superintendent of Ridgefield Park School District.... Ridgefield Park is one of the only districts in the country to receive two Blue Ribbon titles in back to back years. Last year, Grant Elementary School was named a Blue Ribbon School."</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]], and the [[Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Campus|Bergen Tech campus in Teterboro]] or [[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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014000910/http://bcts.bergen.org/index.php/about-us |date=October 14, 2013 }}, [[Bergen County Technical Schools]]. Accessed December 14, 2013.</ref><ref>[https://bcts.bergen.org/index.php/admissions Admissions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305034226/https://bcts.bergen.org/index.php/admissions |date=March 5, 2017 }}, [[Bergen County Technical Schools]]. Accessed December 29, 2016.</ref>