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== Education == [[File:Ho-Ho-Kus Public School.jpg|thumb|Ho-Ho-Kus Public School hosts a "Country Fair".]] The [[Ho-Ho-Kus School District]] serves public school students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]] at Ho-Ho-Kus Public School.<ref>[https://www.hohokus.org/pdf/Board%20of%20Education/05Bylaws,%20Policies%20and%20Regulations/010000%20BYLAWS/0110%20Bylaw%20-%20Identification.pdf Ho-Ho-Kus Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Ho-Ho-Kus School District. Accessed September 4, 2022. "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 12 in the Ho-Ho-Kus School district. Composition The Ho-Ho-Kus School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus."</ref><ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/03/2200 School Performance Reports for the Ho-Ho-Kus School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed April 3, 2024.</ref> As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 597 students and 49.7 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 12.0:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3407320&DistrictID=3407320 District information for Ho-Ho-Kus School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref> The school population increased more than 200 students in the decade through 2008.<ref>[http://www.schooldigger.com/go/NJ/schools/0732000530/school.aspx Ho-Ho-Kus School], School Digger. Accessed September 21, 2008.</ref> Local secondary school students in public school attend [[Northern Highlands Regional High School]] in nearby [[Allendale, New Jersey|Allendale]], which serves students in the [[ninth grade|ninth]] through [[twelfth grade]]s grades from Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, [[Upper Saddle River, New Jersey|Upper Saddle River]] and some students from [[Saddle River, New Jersey|Saddle River]], as part of [[sending/receiving relationship]]s with the Ho-Ho-Kus district.<ref name=TopTown2011 /><ref>[http://www.nj.gov/education/pr/1415/narrative/03/3700/000.html Northern Highlands Regional High School 2015 Report Card Narrative], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed May 31, 2016. "A four-year public high school, Northern Highlands strives to address the needs of all of its students who come from four towns in northern Bergen County: Allendale, Upper Saddle River, Ho-Ho-Kus, and Saddle River."</ref> As of the 2020–21 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,364 students and 106.3 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 12.8:1.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3411730&ID=341173000646 School data for Northern Highlands Regional High School], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref> ''[[New Jersey Monthly]]'' magazine ranked [[Northern Highlands Regional High School]] as the 22nd-best high school of the 328 ranked schools in New Jersey in its 2012 rankings of the "Top Public High Schools" after being ranked 6th of 322 schools in 2010.<ref>Schlager, Ken; and Staab, Amanda. [http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/the-top-new-jersey-high-schools-alphabetical.html "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical - Here are the 2012 Top High Schools ranking listed alphabetically."], ''[[New Jersey Monthly]]'', August 16, 2012. Accessed August 22, 2013.</ref> The ten voting seats on the high school district's board of education are allocated based on a percentage of the enrollment coming from each constituent municipality, with one seat allocated to Ho-Ho-Kus.<ref>[https://www.northernhighlands.org/Page/6759 About the Board of Education], Northern Highlands Regional High School, updated June 20, 2020. Accessed January 25, 2022. "The Northern Highlands Regional High School Board of Education is comprised of a ten board members who are elected by the constituents in the three municipalities (Upper Saddle River, Allendale, and Ho-Ho-Kus) whose students attend the Northern Highlands Regional High School district. As Saddle River has less than 10% of the entire districts population, they have a non-voting liaison on the Board who serves as the 11th member. Currently, five members are elected from the Borough of Upper Saddle River, four from the Borough of Allendale and one from the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus. The numeric breakdown of members is determined by total student population from each specific town, one member for each 10% of the entire schools population."</ref> After ending a long-standing sending relationship to [[Ridgewood High School (New Jersey)|Ridgewood High School]] in the mid-1970s, Ho-Ho-Kus students started attending [[Midland Park High School]]. The small size of the Midland Park school and the lack of electives led to efforts in the mid-1990s to find another high school to serve students from the borough.<ref name=Thinking>Cheslow, Jerry. [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/05/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-ho-ho-kus-a-borough-that-guards-its-traditions.html "If You're Thinking of Living In/Ho-Ho-Kus; A Borough That Guards Its Traditions"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 5, 1995. Accessed August 22, 2011. "The district serves [[kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]]s. High school students are sent to nearby Midland Park, an arrangement Mayor Sayers terms 'unsatisfactory' because, he says, Midland Park High School is small and offers few electives. The Ho-Ho-Kus Board of Education is discussing possible alternatives."</ref> Since then, high school students from Ho-Ho-Kus have been attending [[Northern Highlands Regional High School]].<ref>Peterson, Iver. [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/nyregion/taxes-may-fuse-school-districts-rising-expenses-test-new-jerseyans-love-local.html "Taxes May Fuse School Districts; Rising Expenses Test New Jerseyans' Love of Local Control"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 29, 1994. Accessed August 22, 2011. "The proposed district would send Ho-Ho-Kus ninth graders to Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale. Northern Highlands High is nationally known for quality, but it is operating at just over half capacity and desperately seeking ties to other districts. Now, Ho-Ho-Kus children go to Midland Park High School after eighth grade."</ref> The send / receive agreement between Ho-Ho-Kus and Northern Highlands began in the 1990s.<ref>Crusco, Jennifer. [http://www.villadom.com/VTNews/2009/Z3/Mar/0304/3.html "Trustees approve new 10-year contract with Highlands"], ''The Villadom Times'', March 4, 2009. Accessed September 7, 2011. "The Ho-Ho-Kus Board of Education last week signed a new send/receive contract with Northern Highlands Regional High School in Annandale, which covers 2008 (retroactively) through 2018.... Ho-Ho-Kus has been sending its high school age students to Northern Highlands since the 1990s, when the district severed its send/receive relationship with Midland Park High School."</ref> In 2016, the Ho-Ho-Kus and Northern Highlands districts reached an agreement to extend the send / receive agreement through 2026 under a fixed-price contract by which Ho-Ho-Kus would pay $3.6 million for the 2016–17 school year, escalating by 2% a year to $4.3 million in 2025–26, regardless of the number of students from the borough sent to the high school.<ref>Northern Highlands Regional High School and the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus announced a new 10-year send/receive agreement through 2026 last week.... The total tuition to be paid by Ho-Ho-Kus for the 2016 to 2017 school year is $3,580,675. The fee increases by approximately 2 percent per year to $4,279,238 in the 2025 to 2026 school year."</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 9, 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> The borough is home to the Ho-Ho-Kus Waldwick Cooperative Nursery School.<ref>[http://www.hohokuswaldwickcoop.com/about-us About Us], Ho-Ho-Kus Waldwick Cooperative Nursery School. Accessed July 31, 2013.</ref>
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