The Maywood Public Schools district serves students in pre-kindergarten through 8th grade from Maywood, New Jersey. It comprises two schools with a total enrollment of 1,001 students and 79 teachers. After graduating from Maywood, around 250 students attend Hackensack High School, but the district plans to transition students to a new high school beginning in 2020 due to rising tuition costs in Hackensack. Memorial School was designated a National Blue Ribbon School in 1996-97.

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The Maywood Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves
students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from the Borough of Maywood, in Bergen
County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising two schools, had an enrollment of 1,001
students and 79.9 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor
Group "FG", the fourth-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.
After graduating from Maywood Avenue School, approximately 250 students in public school for
ninth through twelfth grades had attended Hackensack High School in Hackensack, as part of a
sending/receiving relationship with the Hackensack Public Schools, together with students from
Rochelle Park and South Hackensack. In the wake of rising tuition costs assessed by the
Hackensack district, the district has considered a plan under which the relationship with
Hackensack would be severed and a new sending relationship would be established with other

2. neighboring districts. In March 2020, the district received approval from the New Jersey
Department of Education to end the relationship it had with Hackensack and will begin
transitioning incoming ninth graders to Henry P. Becton Regional High School, which serves
students from Carlstadt and East Rutherford beginning in the 2020–21 school year. The
transition would be complete after the final group of twelfth graders graduates from
Hackensack High School at the end of the 2023–24 school year. Maywood cited costs of nearly
$14,800 per student in 2018 to send high-school students to Hackensack and an annual cost in
excess of $15,000 under a proposed new three-year agreement, while Becton would start at a
per-pupil cost of $10,500 in 2020–21 as part of a ten-year deal that would have a maximum cost
per Maywood student of $11,800 in the final year of the agreement.
History
Students from Maywood began attending Hackensack High School in September 1966, after the
district ended a longstanding sending relationship under which students had attended Bogota
High School.
Awards and recognition
For the 1996-97 school year, Memorial School was formally designated as a National Blue
Ribbon School, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.
Schools
Schools in the district are:
Memorial School with 430 students in grades PreK-3
Ray Bauer, Principal
Maywood Avenue School with 560 students in grades 4-8. The school offers a wide variety of
after-school activities ranging from cheerleading to chess club. Older students have the
opportunity to contribute to their school newspaper, The Hawk, and their yearbook.
Michael Jordan, Principal
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
Michael Jordan, Superintendent of Schools
Jennifer Pfohl, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
Board of education
The district's board of education, comprised of seven members, sets policy and oversees the
fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school
district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on
a staggered basis, with either two or three seats up for election each year held as part of the
November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-
to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the
district.
References
External links
, National Center for Education Statistics