Wyckoff School District

The Wyckoff School District is a community public school district, serving students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Wyckoff in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

High school students attend Ramapo High School, a regional high school located in Franklin Lakes which serves most of Wyckoff and part of Franklin Lakes. The other part of Franklin Lakes, all of Oakland, and a small portion of Wyckoff students attend Indian Hills High School located in Oakland. Both high schools are part of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District

Awards and recognition

For the 2005-06 school year, the Wyckoff School District was recognized with the "Best Practices Award" by the New Jersey Department of Education for its "A Reading Af'fair' to Remember" Language Arts Literacy program at Abraham Lincoln School. [ [http://www.nj.gov/cgi-bin/education/oipp/bp3.pl?string=recid=0829&maxhits=10000 New Jersey Department of Education Best Practices Award recipient for 2005-06] , accessed October 23, 2006]

For the 1998-99 school year, Eisenhower Middle School was named a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve. [ [http://www.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/education/ss/ss3.pl?string=id=054&maxhits=10000 New Jersey Department of Education Star School Award recipient detail 1998-99 school year, Eisenhower Middle School] , accessed July 13, 2006] In the 2003-04 school year, it received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. [ [http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2003/10/10022003.html 2003 No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools Program Chosen Schools] , accessed June 6, 2006]

Schools

The 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=3418360 Data for the Wyckoff School District] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 7, 2008.] ) are:

Elementary Schools (K-5)
* [http://www.wyckoffschools.org/coolidge/index.html Calvin Coolidge School] , located at 420 Grandview Avenue, is an elementary school which opened in 1932 as a 6-room K-6 school and has been expanded several times over the years. (442 students)
* [http://www.wyckoffschools.org/lincoln/index.html Abraham Lincoln School] , located at 325 Mason Ave., was dedicated in 1953 on land purchased in 1950. (432 students)
* [http://www.wyckoffschools.org/sicomac/index.html Sicomac School] , located at 356 Sicomac Ave., was completed in 1967. (403 students)
* [http://www.wyckoffschools.org/washington/index.html George Washington School] , located at 270 Woodland Ave., was constructed as an 11-room brick building on the site where the previous school had burned down. (443 students)Middle School
*Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School, located at 344 Calvin Ct., was approved in 1960 and dedicated 1963. Since 1996 Eisenhower has served grades 6, 7, and 8. (884 students)

Special education

Wyckoff is a member of the Northwest Bergen Council for Special Education. The Council is composed of twelve member districts which work together to provide special education services on a regional basis. Wyckoff is responsible for four of the special education classes in the Northwest Council. Special Education classes are located in Sicomac School.

History

The first school in the town was a one-room school built on Wyckoff Ave. in 1869 and used until 1906; demolished in 1906. Prior to 1929, high school students attended Central High School in Paterson, before the Board of Education voted to send students to Ramsey High School (New Jersey) in Ramsey instead.

References

External links

* [http://www.wyckoffschools.org/ Wyckoff Schools]
*NJReportCard|03|5920|0|Wyckoff School District
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3418360 Data for the Wyckoff School District] , National Center for Education Statistics
* [http://www.rih.org Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District website]