Oak View Elementary School

Oak View Elementary School is a community public elementary school that serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade from Bloomfield, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Bloomfield Public Schools.

As of the 2006-07 school year, Oak View Elementary School had an enrollment of 358 students and 20 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 17.9.[1]

Awards and recognition

During the 2007-08 school year, Oak View Elementary School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education,[2][3] the highest award an American school can receive.[4][5]

Administration

References

  1. ↑ Data for Oak View Elementary School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 26, 2009.
  2. ↑ Addison, Kasi; and Juri, Carmen. "Three Essex schools capture blue ribbon", The Star-Ledger, October 7, 2007. Accessed October 14, 2007. "Principals in three Essex County schools found out last week their buildings joined an exclusive club of exemplary schools when the U.S. Department of Education named the nation's latest batch of No Child Left Behind -- Blue Ribbon Schools.... The three Essex County schools are Oakview School in Bloomfield, Millburn High School and Harriet Tubman School in Newark."
  3. ↑ No Child Left Behind - Blue Ribbon Schools Program: 2007 Schools, United States Department of Education. Accessed October 15, 2007.
  4. ↑ CIBA cited as one of the best by Education Department Archived August 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine., Journal Inquirer, November 16, 2006. "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10% of their state's testing scores over several years or show significant gains in student achievement. It is considered the highest honor a school can achieve."
  5. ↑ Viers Mill School Wins Blue Ribbon; School Scored High on Statewide Test; The Washington Post. September 29, 2005 "For their accomplishments, all three schools this month earned the status of Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the U.S. Education Department can bestow upon a school."

Coordinates: 40°50′15″N 74°10′24″W / 40.8376°N 74.1734°W / 40.8376; -74.1734

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