Tenafly Public Schools
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The Tenafly Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Tenafly, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
[edit] Schools
Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[1]) are:
- Elementary Schools (K-5)
- Mackay School - 334 students
- Maugham School - 408 students
- Smith School - 345 students
- Stillman School - 374 students
- Middle School (6-8)
- Tenafly Middle School - 777 students
The Tenafly Middle School 8th grade string orchestra, conducted by Mrs. Erika Boras Tesi, won first place in the American String Teachers Association's National Orchestra Festival. The orchestra now has the title of number one middle school orchestra in the United States. The orchestra competed in Kansas City on March 8, 2006, and received a Superior rating. A new section of the school was opened in the Fall of 2007.
- High School
- Tenafly High School has 992 students in ninth through twelfth grades. Students from the neighboring community of Alpine attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Alpine Public School.[2]
Tenafly High School was awarded the prestigious Blue Ribbon School Award, Awarded by the United States Department of Education at a special assembly to the Tenafly High School Community on September 20, 2005. Tenafly was the only high school in New Jersey and one of 38 public high schools in the U.S. to receive the 2005 Blue Ribbon School Award.[3]
Tenafly High School was the 2nd ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools[4].
Professional poet Gary Whitehead teaches English at Tenafly High School. He is the author of The Velocity of Dust (Salmon/Dufour Editions), After the Drowning (Finishing Line Press), A Cool, Dry Place (White Eagle Coffee Store Press), and Walking Back to Providence (Sow's Ear Press). He is a frequent contributor to the Christian Science Monitor.
[edit] References
- ^ Tenafly Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 2, 2008.
- ^ Alvarado, Monsy. "Alpine to keep sending students to Tenafly", The Record (Bergen County), April 4, 2003. Accessed January 2, 2008."ALPINE - The borough's high school students will continue to attend Tenafly High School under a new contract approved by the Board of Education this week."
- ^ Schools selected as No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools in 2005. Retrieved on May 2, 2006.
- ^ Top Public High Schools in New Jersey, New Jersey Monthly, September 2006
[edit] External links
- Tenafly Public Schools
- Tenafly Public Schools's 2006-07 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Tenafly Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
- History of Englewood, NJ's attempted school district regionalization with Tenafly, NJ
