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The district comprises the suburban communities of Closter (559 students), Demarest (343 students), Harrington Park (265 students), Haworth (218 students), Northvale (247 students), Norwood (348 students), and Old Tappan (357 students). Students from Rockleigh attend the district as part of a sending / receiving relationship.

The District's Board Of Education consists of nine members. Two members are from Closter and Norwood, and one member each from Demarest, Haworth, Harrington Park, Northvale and Old Tappan.

The communities in the district, made up of upper-middle income families, consistently support the school budget, which provides for varied, in-depth college preparatory and career-oriented curricula. Courses range from the remedial to Advanced Placement .

The district's high schools at Demarest and Old Tappan were respectively the 16th and 25th-ranked public high schools in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in '''', September 2006.


EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

The school administration and faculty support and encourage student participation in the variety of sports, social and academic club activities. In each school, there are over 23 sports, which include participation at the freshman, junior varsity, and varsity level (46 teams) in the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League , as well as 60 co-curricular activities.


SCHOOLS


Both also have an extremely small minority of people from towns that normally go to the other schools.

Both High Schools in the district are accredited by the Middle States Association Of Colleges And Schools and by the New Jersey Department Of Education .


ADMINISTRATION

  • Dr. Jan Furman - Superintendent

  • Mr. Ray Jacobus - Assistant Superintendent for Business

  • Judith Margolis - District Director of Guidance



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