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Teaneck Information
Teaneck is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, and is a suburb of New
York City. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was
39,260. The Census Bureau's 2004 population estimate for the township is 39,853.
Teaneck was created on February 19, 1895 by an Act of the New Jersey
Legislature. Teaneck was formed from portions of Englewood Township and
Ridgefield Township, both of which are now defunct (despite existing
municipalities with similar names), along with portions of Bogota and Leonia. On
May 3, 1921 and on June 1, 1926, portions of what had been Teaneck were
transferred to Overpeck Township.
The Teaneck Public Schools serves students in pre-Kindergarten through 12th
grade. Schools in the district (with 2003-04 enrollment data from the National
Center for Education Statistics) include Bryant School, with 396 students in
pre-K and Kindergarten; three lower schools serving grades 1-4: Hawthorne School
with 372 students, Lowell School with 383 students and Whittier School with 425
students; two middle schools serving grades 5-8: Benjamin Franklin Middle School
with 656 students and Thomas Jefferson Middle School with 747 students; and
Teaneck High School, which has an enrollment of 1,407 students in grades 9-12.
The Teaneck Public Schools allocated $14,320 per year per public school pupil in
the 2005-2006 school year (93rd of 104 comparable school districts in the state,
ranked lowest to highest spending); this is up more than $2100 (more than 17%)
since the 2003-2004 school year. Of the per-pupil allocation, $8,289 goes
directly to classroom instruction (97th in the state).
The Teaneck Community Charter School is a charter school that operates
independently of the Teaneck Public Schools under a charter granted by the
Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education. Admission is open to the
public for available slots (after returning students and siblings of existing
students are entered) and covers kindergarten through eighth grade, with an
after school program and summer camp. As the school is a public school, no
tuition is charged. Funding comes from the Teaneck Public Schools (and other
home districts of non-resident students), which provides 90% of its cost per
pupil in the district, with the balance of funding coming directly from the
state of New Jersey.
Teaneck is home to the Metropolitan Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University,
which straddles the Hackensack River, in Teaneck and Hackensack.
Private Orthodox Jewish day schools include the Torah Academy of Bergen County
(for males) and Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School (for females), both high schools
(grades 9-12).
Teaneck is also home to the Schechter Regional High School, a co-ed Conservative
Jewish high school.
The Al-Ghazaly High School is a co-ed religious day school (grades 7 through 12)
primarily serving the Muslim community. Students come from the greater Teaneck
area.
The Community School is a private school, founded in 1968 to serve the bright
child with learning and attention disabilities. Both the lower school and high
school are located in Teaneck.