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==Education== ===Public schools=== [[Image:THS Main 2007.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Teaneck High School]]]] The [[Teaneck Public Schools]] serves students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[twelfth grade]].<ref>[https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=7da42070a501409683bdce41bdcbaaff Teaneck Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], [[Teaneck Public Schools]]. Accessed March 15, 2020. "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 twelve in the Teaneck School District. Composition: The Teaneck School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Teaneck."</ref> As of the 2019–2020 school year, the district, comprised of eight schools, had an enrollment of 3,720 students and 347.3 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 10.7:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3416080&DistrictID=3416080 District information for Teaneck School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed November 1, 2019.</ref> Schools in the district,<ref>[https://www.teaneckschools.org/SchoolListing.aspx School Listing], Teaneck Public Schools. Accessed December 12, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170806100945/http://www.teaneck.org/virtualvillage/PublicSchools/index.html Teaneck Virtual Village - History of Teaneck Public Schools], Teaneck Public Library, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of August 6, 2017. Accessed September 5, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/5150 New Jersey School Directory for the Teaneck Public Schools], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> with 2019–20 enrollment data from the [[National Center for Education Statistics]],<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3416080 School Data for the Teaneck Public Schools], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed September 5, 2021.</ref> are: * Bryant School<ref>[https://www.teaneckschools.org/bryantelementaryschool_home.aspx Bryant School], Teaneck Public Schools. Accessed December 12, 2019.</ref> (322 students in Pre-K and Kindergarten) * Theodora Smiley Lacey School<ref>[https://www.teaneckschools.org/theodorasmileylaceyschool_home.aspx Theodora Smiley Lacey School], Teaneck Public Schools. Accessed November 21, 2023.</ref> (Kindergarten) * Hawthorne School<ref>[https://www.teaneckschools.org/hawthorneelementaryschool_home.aspx Hawthorne School], Teaneck Public Schools. Accessed December 12, 2019.</ref> (345 students in grades 1–4) * Lowell School<ref>[https://www.teaneckschools.org/lowellelementaryschool_home.aspx Lowell School], Teaneck Public Schools. Accessed December 12, 2019.</ref> (336 students in grades 1–4) * Whittier School<ref>[https://www.teaneckschools.org/whittierelementaryschool_home.aspx Whittier School], Teaneck Public Schools. Accessed December 12, 2019.</ref> (359 students in grades 1–4) * Benjamin Franklin Middle School<ref>[https://www.teaneckschools.org/benjaminfranklinmiddleschool_home.aspx Benjamin Franklin Middle School], Teaneck Public Schools. Accessed December 12, 2019.</ref> (555 students in grades 5–8) * Thomas Jefferson Middle School<ref>[https://www.teaneckschools.org/thomasjeffersonmiddleschool_home.aspx Thomas Jefferson Middle School], Teaneck Public Schools. Accessed December 12, 2019.</ref> (523 students in grades 5–8) * [[Teaneck High School]]<ref>[https://www.teaneckschools.org/teaneckhighschool_home.aspx Teaneck High School], Teaneck Public Schools. Accessed December 12, 2019.</ref> (1,189 students in grades 9–12) Longfellow Elementary school was closed in 1998.<ref>Stancavish, Don. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record-closing-of-longfellow-school/135552023/ "For Teaneck's Longfellow School, a day of history and sadness"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', May 23, 1998. Accessed November 21, 2023, via [[Newspapers.com]].</ref> Other elementary schools that closed prior to 1998 included Emerson and Eugene Field School, which had been used by the Board of Education for its central administrative offices. District offices were removed from the former Eugene Field School which reopened as [[Theodora Smiley Lacey]] School with room for 180 kindergarten students.<ref>[https://abc7ny.com/theodora-smiley-lacey-school-civil-rights-montgomery-bus-boycott-teaneck/6429490/ "Reopening New Jersey: School named after civil rights icon holds grand opening ceremony"], ''[[WABC-TV]]'', September 17, 2020. Accessed November 21, 2023. "The Theodora Smiley Lacey School houses nine kindergarten classrooms, servicing about 180 students."</ref> 2011–2012 total spending for the district was $91,382,911, a Total Spending per Pupil of $22,894 based on 3,991.6 students, ranking 96th highest of the 106 K–12 districts statewide with more than 3,500 students, with the average district spending $18,047 per pupil. Based on the 2012–2013 budget, the district planned to spend a Budgetary Per Pupil Cost of $18,417 (a measure that excludes out-of-district tuition payments for special education, transportation costs, legal judgments and certain other expenditures), ranking 101st highest among its grouping of districts, compared to a statewide average of $14,519. Of the 2012–2013 Budgetary Per Pupil Cost, $11,394 per student was allocated to classroom instruction (104th highest of K–12 districts in the state with more than 3,500 students, with a statewide average of $8,588), $3,012 per student to Total Support Services (ranked 96th, average of $2,338), $1,662 to Total Administrative Costs (ranked 93rd, average of $1,448) and $2,031 to Total Operations and Maintenance of Plant (ranked 89th, average of $1,787). The district's 2012–2013 Median Classroom Teacher Salary of $77,614 is ranked 98th in the state in its grouping, the Median Support Service Salary was $92,539 (97th), while the Median Administrator Salary was $140,497 (95th).<ref name=TEGSTeaneck>[http://www.nj.gov/cgi-bin/education/csg/13/csg.pl?string=dist_code5150&maxhits=650 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending 2013], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed December 19, 2013.</ref><ref name=TEGSIntroduction>[http://www.nj.gov/education/guide/2013/intro.pdf Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending: Introduction – 2013], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed December 19, 2013.</ref><ref name=TEGSAverages>[http://www.nj.gov/cgi-bin/education/csg/13/csggrsum.pl Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending May 2011: State Average for All Operating Types], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed December 19, 2013.</ref> As of the 2010 [[No Child Left Behind Act|No Child Left Behind]] (NCLB) Report, Teaneck High School had satisfied the [[Adequate Yearly Progress]] measure and had a graduation rate of 97.0% for the class of 2009–2010, compared to a statewide average of 94.7%. On the [[High School Proficiency Assessment]] (HSPA), 9.4% were partial proficient, 79.5% proficient and 11.1% advanced proficient in Language Arts Literacy (vs. statewide averages of 10.3% partial, 75.7% proficient and 14% advanced). In Mathematics, 24.8% were partial proficient, 61.8% proficient and 13.4% advanced proficient (vs. statewide averages of 18.4% partial, 57.9% proficient and 23.7% advanced).<ref>[http://education.state.nj.us/rc/nclb/nclbreport.php?c=03;d=5150;s=050 2010 NCLB Report for Teaneck High School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140828220136/http://education.state.nj.us/rc/nclb/nclbreport.php?c=03;d=5150;s=050 |date=2014-08-28}}, [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed December 22, 2011.</ref> The Teaneck Community Charter School (TCCS) had a 2017–2018 enrollment of 322 students and 25.9 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 12.4:1.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3400015&DistrictID=3400015 District information for Teaneck Community Charter School], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed November 1, 2019.</ref> TCCS is a [[charter school]] that operates independently of the Teaneck Public Schools under a charter granted by the Commissioner of the [[New Jersey Department of Education]], which was renewed for five years in 2012.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/education/news/2012/0302result.htm "Department of Education Continues Aggressive Oversight of Charter Schools to Ensure Students are Getting Results"], [[New Jersey Department of Education]], March 2, 2012. Accessed March 2, 2012.</ref> Admission is open to the public for available slots (after returning students and siblings of existing students are entered) and offers an after school program and summer camp. As the school is a public school, no tuition is charged. Funding comes from the Teaneck Public Schools (and the home districts of non-resident students), which provides 90% of its cost per pupil in the district; the balance of funding comes directly from the state of New Jersey.<ref>[http://www.tccsnj.org/about-tccs About TCCS], Teaneck Community Charter School. Accessed December 22, 2011.</ref> The school moved to a new building at 563 Chestnut Avenue in the 2009–2010 school year, from a space it had rented on Palisade Avenue.<ref>Ax, Joseph. [http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/91164544_Charter_school_plan_killed.html "Charter school plan killed"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', April 16, 2010. Accessed December 22, 2011. "The town's only charter school, the Teaneck Community Charter School, serves students from [[Kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]]. The school's organizers had planned to house it in a rented space on Palisade Avenue formerly occupied by the Teaneck Community Charter School, which moved into a new building on Chestnut Avenue last fall."</ref> 2009–2010 total spending for the TCCS was $5,050,613, a Total Spending per Pupil of $16,614 based on 304 students, ranking 51st highest of the 77 charter schools statewide, with the average district spending $17,836 per pupil. Based on the 2010–2011 budget, the TCCS planned to spend a Budgetary Per Pupil Cost of $14,210, ranking 54th highest among the 77 districts, compared to a statewide average of $13,609. Of the 2010–2011 Budgetary Per Pupil Cost, $8,112 per student went to classroom instruction (57th highest of charter schools in the state, with a statewide average of $8,004), $1,124 per student to Total Support Services (ranked 14th, average of $2,116), $1,690 to Total Administrative Costs (ranked 4th, average of $1,453) and $3,282 to Total Operations and Maintenance of Plant (ranked 70th, average of $1,698). The district's 2010–2011 Median Classroom Teacher Salary of $55,860 is ranked 57th in the state in its grouping, the Median Support Service Salary is $82,433 (54th), while the Median Administrator Salary is $103,750 (56th).<ref name=TEGSIntroduction/><ref name=TEGSAverages/><ref>[http://www.nj.gov/cgi-bin/education/csg/11/csg.pl?string=dist_code7890&maxhits=650 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending May 2011 for the Teaneck Community Charter School], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed December 22, 2011.</ref> Public school students from the township, 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 18, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://bcts.bergen.org/index.php/admissions-home Admissions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207100218/http://bcts.bergen.org/index.php/admissions-home |date=2013-12-07}}, [[Bergen County Technical Schools]]. Accessed December 18, 2013.</ref> The 2017–2018 total spending for the district was $101,642,004, a Total Spending per Pupil of $27,670.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/education/csg/19/csg.pl?string=dist_code5150&maxhits=650|title=Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending 2019|website=www.state.nj.us|access-date=2020-01-15}}</ref> ===Private schools=== Teaneck is home to the Metropolitan Campus of [[Fairleigh Dickinson University]], which straddles the [[Hackensack River]] in Teaneck and [[Hackensack, New Jersey|Hackensack]]. The campus served 4,114 undergraduates and 2,350 graduate students.<ref>[http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=700 Metropolitan Campus > About the Campus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002172300/http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=700 |date=October 2, 2013 }}, [[Fairleigh Dickinson University]]. Accessed December 22, 2011.</ref> Teaneck is also home to four private [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[Jewish day school]]s and/or high schools. Those schools include [[Torah Academy of Bergen County]] (for boys in grades 9–12)<ref>[http://www.tabc.org/about-tabc/index.aspx About TABC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219030858/http://www.tabc.org/about-tabc/index.aspx |date=2013-12-19 }}, [[Torah Academy of Bergen County]]. Accessed December 18, 2013.</ref> which completed an $8 million expansion project at the start of the 2013–2014 school year that doubled the size of the school, adding new classrooms and an additional gym to accommodate the record enrollment of 293 students, with room for expansion for the several years ahead.<ref>Schwartz, Bracha. [http://jewishlinkbc.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=698%3Atabc-doubling-in-size&Itemid=562 "Tabc Doubling In Size"], ''The Jewish Link of Bergen County'', May 2, 2013. Accessed December 18, 2013. "When the students of Torah Academy of Bergen County (TABC) start the 2013–14 school year, they will enter a building that doubled in size over the summer.... The cost is estimated at $8 million and $2.6 million has been raised."</ref><ref>Schwartz, Bracha. [http://www.jewishlinkbc.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=2075%3Atabc-chanukat-habayit-in-time-for-chanukah&Itemid=562 "TABC Chanukat HaBayit in Time For Chanukah"], ''The Jewish Link of Bergen County'', November 28, 2013. Accessed December 18, 2013.</ref> The [[SINAI Special Needs Institute]], a school specializing in the education of students with [[Learning disability|learning disabilities]] and other [[special needs]], is hosted in the same building.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Palmer |first=Joanne |date=Nov 17, 2016 |title=Sinai to open new school |url=https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/sinai-to-open-new-school/ |website=Jewish Standard}}</ref> [[Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School]], located on the same section of Palisade Avenue, serves girls in grades 9–12.<ref>[http://www.maayanot.org/ Welcome], [[Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School]]. Accessed December 22, 2011.</ref> In 2016, Yeshivat He'atid, a private K–8 Jewish day school, moved from Bergenfield to Teaneck, taking over an empty [[data center]] building near TABC and Ma'ayanot.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pinzow |first=Anne Phyllis |title='Soft' Commercial Building Boom Hits Teaneck |url=http://jewishlinknj.com//community-news/8667-soft-commercial-building-boom-hits-teaneck |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=jewishlinknj.com |date=June 25, 2015 |language=en-GB}}</ref> The school employs a [[blended learning]] model.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kessler |first=E.J. |date=2018-03-14 |title=Embraced by low-tuition Jewish schools, 'blended learning' now catching on more widely |url=https://www.jta.org/2018/03/14/united-states/embraced-low-tuition-jewish-schools-blended-learning-now-catching-widely |access-date=2022-06-02 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref> With enrollment growing from 116 to 600 students in under a decade, the school began an expansion project in 2021.<ref>Rosenberg, Michal. [https://jewishlink.news//community-news/44809-yeshivat-he-atid-looks-to-the-future "Yeshivat He’Atid Looks to the Future"], ''Jewish Link'', July 1, 2021. Accessed June 2, 2022. "The school brought its novel approach to the Bergen County community in 2012, starting out with 116 students—just six classes—in a rented space in Bergenfield. When He’Atid moved into its new building five years ago, and Rav Tomer Ronen came in as head of school, that number had risen to 300 students. Now the school has doubled its numbers again, in just five years, to over 600 students and has graduated its second eighth-grade class this year."</ref> Yeshivas Heichal HaTorah, another high school, opened in September 2013 at the Teaneck Jewish Center with an initial enrollment of 17 students.<ref>Chasan, Aliza. [http://jewishlinkbc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1315:heichal-hatorah-joins-ranks-of-local-high-schools&catid=150:news&Itemid=562 "Heichal HaTorah Joins Ranks of Local High Schools"], ''The Jewish Link of Bergen County'', August 9, 2013. Accessed December 18, 2013. "Heichal HaTorah opens in Teaneck at the start of this upcoming academic year with 17 students who are making the most of it.... The school will be located in the Teaneck Jewish Center which is already outfitted with classrooms, laboratories, a gym and a pool."</ref> A post high school program, called Yeshivas Bais Mordechai (and formerly called Yeshiva Gedolah of Teaneck), opened in 2005 on Palisade Avenue.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Neff |first=Andrew |date=2009-05-09 |title=From Bear Stearns to Bava Metzia |url=https://aish.com/48943781/ |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=Aish.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The Community School is a private school, founded in 1968 to serve the bright child with learning and attentional disabilities. Both the [[Community School, Teaneck, New Jersey|lower school]] and [[Community High School, Teaneck, New Jersey|high school]] are in Teaneck.<ref>[http://www.communityschool.k12.nj.us/pages/CommunitySchool_k12/About/facts Facts & Highlights], [[Community School, Teaneck, New Jersey]]. Accessed February 4, 2014.</ref> Teaneck was home to the [[Schechter Regional High School|Metropolitan Schechter High School]], a co-ed [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative Jew]]ish high school, which closed its doors in August 2007 due to fundraising problems.<ref>Spence, Rebecca. [http://www.forward.com/articles/11505/ "Families Mourn as School Abruptly Closes"], ''[[The Jewish Daily Forward]]'', August 29, 2007. Accessed August 29, 2007. "Less than two weeks before the Metropolitan Schechter High School in Teaneck, N.J., was set to begin the academic year, the board announced to a shocked audience of parents, teachers and students that the school had not met its fundraising goals and would therefore be forced close its doors for good."</ref> [[Al-Ghazaly High School]], a co-ed religious day school for [[seventh grade|seventh]] through [[twelfth grade]]s founded in 1984, was located on 441 North Street, serving the [[Muslim]] community from the greater Teaneck area. The school relocated to a larger facility in [[Wayne, New Jersey|Wayne]] and opened its doors to students in September 2013, with the Teaneck facility repurposed to serve students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade with the name of Academy of Greatness and Excellence, which is also an Islamic school.<ref>Burrow, Megan. [http://www.northjersey.com/news/221593581_Al-Ghazaly_Elementary_School_in_Teaneck_readies_for_opening.html "Al-Ghazaly Elementary School in Teaneck readies for opening"], ''Teaneck Suburbanite'', August 29, 2013. Accessed December 19, 2013. "Iman El-Dessouky, a board member at Al-Ghazaly School, said the change was precipitated when the school secured a bigger building for its high school students in Wayne.... Originally, El-Dessouky said, the school planned to use the Teaneck campus for pre-kindergarten through first grade students, but after the school held an open house for parents and prospective students earlier this month, the board decided to expand its offerings up to third grade."</ref><ref>[http://www.iefnj.org/OurSchools/AlGhazalyHighSchool/GeneralInformation.aspx Al-Ghazaly High School], The Islamic Education Foundation of New Jersey. Accessed December 19, 2013.</ref>
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