The Cedar Grove Schools are a comprehensive community public school district

School district

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 that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Cedar Grove

Cedar Grove, New Jersey

-Climate:Cedar Grove has a humid subtropical climate, with warm/hot humid summers and cool/cold winters. The climate is slightly colder overall during the summer than in New York City because there is no urban heat island effect....

, in Essex County

Essex County, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States.

As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's four schools had an enrollment of 1,595 students and 122.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education

New Jersey Department of Education

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 as being in District Factor Group "I", the second highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

Elementary Schools (K-4)

• North End Elementary School (323 students)
  • Dr. Lawrence Neugebauer, Principal
• South End Elementary School (339)
  • Brian Cavanagh, Principal

Middle School (5-8)

• Cedar Grove Memorial Middle School (406)
  • Richard Mangili, Principal

High School (9-12)

• Cedar Grove High School (514)
  • Michael Fetherman, Principal
  • Joseph McBride, Vice Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Dr. Gene Polles, Superintendent
• Ernest Turner, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• Cedar Grove Schools website
• Data for the Cedar Grove Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
  National Center for Education Statistics
  The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...