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==Education== [[File:St. Peter's University Englewood Cliffs campus.jpg|right|thumb|The Englewood Cliffs campus of [[Saint Peter's University]] seen from [[Manhattan]]]] The [[Englewood Cliffs Public Schools]] serves children in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]].<ref>[https://4.files.edl.io/ca2b/09/20/19/175959-6f8e86a0-da49-4574-a69a-5c90c9b0f26d.pdf Englewood Cliffs Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Englewood Cliffs Public Schools. Accessed May 27, 2020. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-K through eight in the Englewood Cliffs School District. Composition: The Department Chairperson{{sic}} School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Englewood Cliffs."</ref> As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 439 students and 48.3 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 9.1:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3404770&DistrictID=3404770 District information for Englewood Cliffs 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=3404770 School Data for the Englewood Cliffs Public Schools], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref>) are North Cliff School<ref>[https://www.englewoodcliffs.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1588520&type=d&pREC_ID=1709381 North Cliff School], Englewood Cliffs Public Schools. Accessed May 27, 2020.</ref> with 139 students in grades PreK–2 and Upper School<ref>[https://www.englewoodcliffs.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1588898&type=d&pREC_ID=1715247 Upper School], Englewood Cliffs Public Schools. Accessed May 27, 2020.</ref> with 292 students in grades 3–8.<ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/03/1380 School Performance Reports for the Englewood Cliffs School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed April 3, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/1380 New Jersey School Directory for the Englewood Cliffs Public Schools], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed December 24, 2016.</ref> The school district has a [[sending/receiving relationship]] with the [[Englewood Public School District]] under which students attend public high school at [[Dwight Morrow High School]] in [[Englewood, New Jersey|Englewood]].<ref>[http://www.nj.gov/education/pr/1415/narrative/03/1370/040.html Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood 2015 Report Card Narrative], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed June 6, 2016. "Dwight Morrow High School is a community of learners and teachers consisting of approximately 1055 students and 125 faculty members. Our school serves Englewood and Englewood Cliffs, and our campus is the home of the largest Interdistrict Public School Choice program in New Jersey, the Academies@Englewood."</ref> As of the 2020–21 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,049 students and 84.8 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 12.4:1.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3404740&ID=340474000388 School data for Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 15, 2022.</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 5, 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 24, 2016.</ref> Since 1975, Englewood Cliffs has been home to a campus of [[Saint Peter's University]], where evening and weekend classes are offered for [[associate degree]]s, [[bachelor's degree]]s, and graduate degrees. The college's nursing program for [[registered nurse]]s is also located at the campus. Previously, the campus had been home to [[Englewood Cliffs College]], which closed in 1974.<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/27/archives/st-peters-opening-englewood-branch.html "St. Peter's Opening Englewood Branch"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 27, 1975. Accessed September 15, 2017. "St. Peter's College of Jersey City will open a Bergen County campus this summer on the site of the former Englewood Cliffs College, which closed last year."</ref> ===Library=== The borough does not have its own public library. After a 47-year-long relationship with the Englewood Public Library under which the borough paid $225,000 to allow borough residents to use the city's library, Englewood Cliffs started negotiations in 2016 with other municipalities to pay for privileges elsewhere.<ref>McGrath, Matthew. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161107102520/http://www.northjersey.com/towns/library-seeks-payment-from-neighbor-1.1618134 "Englewood library seeks payment from borough neighbor"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', June 18, 2016, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of November 7, 2016. Accessed September 15, 2017. "Englewood Cliffs residents have borrowed books from the city library for the past 47 years. So, when the $225,000 a year contract between the city and the borough ended at the end of 2015, the library board continued to lend books to Englewood Cliffs residents on good faith while officials from either side hashed out a new contract."</ref>
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