Franklin Lakes Public Schools

The Franklin Lakes Public Schools are a community public school district serving students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Franklin Lakes, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

Students in grades 9 - 12 attend the schools of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District, a regional district consisting of two four-year public high schools serving students from Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff. Students have the option to attend either Indian Hills High School in Oakland or Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes. [Van Dusen, Matthew. "Ramapo-Indian Hills schools chief to retire.", "The Record (Bergen County)", October 24, 2007. "Later, parents of Oakland students protested their lack of choice, and students in Wyckoff, Franklin Lakes and Oakland can now attend either school."]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics [ [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3405370 Data for the Franklin Lakes Public Schools] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 17, 2008.] ) are:

Elementary Schools (K-5)
* [http://www.franklinlakes.k12.nj.us/crsweb/index.html Colonial Road School] (421 students)
* [http://www.franklinlakes.k12.nj.us/hmrweb/HMR%20Home%20Page.html High Mountain Road School] (319)
* [http://www.franklinlakes.k12.nj.us/wasweb/WAS%20Home%20Page.html Woodside Avenue School] (393)Middle School (6-8)
* [http://www.franklinlakes.k12.nj.us/famsweb/famsindex.html Franklin Avenue Middle School] (608)

Awards and recognition

For the 2005-06 school year, the district was recognized with the "Best Practices Award" by the New Jersey Department of Education for its "Artist Historians" Social Studies program at Franklin Avenue Middle School. [ [http://www.nj.gov/cgi-bin/education/oipp/bp3.pl?string=recid=0842&maxhits=10000 New Jersey Department of Education Best Practices Award recipient for 2005-06] , accessed October 23, 2006]

Administration

*Dr. Roger Bayersdorfer - Superintendent

References

External links

* [http://www.franklinlakes.k12.nj.us/ Franklin Lakes Public Schools]
*NJReportCard|03|1580|0|Franklin Lakes Public Schools
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3405370 Data for the Franklin Lakes Public Schools] , National Center for Education Statistics
* [http://www.rih.org Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District website]