Rutherford School District

The Rutherford School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Rutherford, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

Public education began in Rutherford prior to 1900, but the oldest permanent school structure was the Park School, built in 1902. It is currently the home of the Rutherford borough hall, on Park Avenue.

Rutherford formerly had three "neighborhood" schools for grades K-5 (Washington, Lincoln, and Sylvan) which fed into two "magnet" schools for 6-8 (Union & Pierrepont). The magnet schools also served as elementary schools for their neighborhoods. Since the 2005-2006 School Year the Rutherford Schools have changed this format.

Sylvan Schools has since been closed by the Rutherford Board of Education, it houses YMCA Programs, the District Special Services Department, as well as a Handicapped Pre-School Program run by the South Bergen Jointure Commission.

Rutherford now has two Elementary Schools Washington & Lincoln, for grades K-3. In Grades 4-8 the students attend Union & Pierrepont Schools. For years before the reformating, the Rutherford School System underwent a mult-million dollar renovation, which effected all of it's buildings, with the most substantial amount of work taking place at Washington, Lincoln, & Union Schools.

chools

Today's public schools (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics [ [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3414460 Data for the Rutherford School District] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 18, 2008.] ) are:

;Elementary Schools (K-3)
* [http://www.rutherfordschools.org/lincoln/index.html Lincoln] (348 students)
**Principal - Jenna Velechko
* [http://www.rutherfordschools.org/washington/index.html Washington] (321)
**Principal - William Mulcahy;Middle Schools (4-8)
* [http://www.rutherfordschools.org/pierrepont/index.html Pierrepont] (479)
**Principal - Margaret Vaccarino
**Assistant Principal - Steve Albin (Through 1/1/09)
* [http://www.rutherfordschools.org/union/index.html Union] (478)
**Principal - Kenneth Polakowski
**Assistant Principal - Kurt Schweitzer;High School (9-12)
*Rutherford High School (784), built in 1922 and expanded in 1959 and 2005
**Principal - Jack Hurley
**Assistant Principal - Mike Cassidy

Administration

*Ms. Leslie O'Keefe - Superintendent of Schools
*Mr. Robert R. Brown - School Business Administrator / Board Secretary
*Mrs. Lynn Crawford- Director Of Special Services

References

External links

* [http://www.rutherfordschools.org Rutherford School District]
*NJReportCard|03|4600|0|Rutherford School District
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3414460 Data for the Rutherford School District] , National Center for Education Statistics