North Bergen School District


The North Bergen School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from North Bergen, in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
As of the 2023–24 school year, the district, comprised of eight schools, had an enrollment of 7,165 students and 553.4 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
Students from Guttenberg attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Guttenberg Public School District.

History

After High Tech High School moved to a new facility in Secaucus for the 2018–19 school year, the former High Tech High School campus was acquired by the North Bergen district, with plans to construct a new junior high school for grades 7-9 on the site. The school officially opened in September 2025 and was named in honor of township mayor Nicholas Sacco.
The district had been classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "B", the second-lowest 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.

Schools

Schools in the district are:
;Elementary schools
  • Franklin Elementary School
  • *Hamza Abdelhadi, principal
  • Robert Fulton Elementary School
  • *Thelma Noreen Garcia, princial
  • John F. Kennedy Elementary School
  • *Frank Bafumi, principal
  • Lincoln Elementary School
  • *Nicholas Sacco, principal
  • Horace Mann Elementary School
  • *Maria Alonso, principal
  • McKinley Elementary School
  • *Joseph Bartulovich, principal
  • Polk Street Elementary School
  • *Adamarys Galvin, principal
;Junior High School
;High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:
  • George J. Solter Jr., superintendent
  • Steven Somick, business administrator
  • Hugo D. Cabrera, board secretary

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of nine 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 three seats up for election each year held as part of the April school election; a tenth board member is appointed to represent the sending district of Guttenberg. 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. Of the nearly 600 school districts statewide, North Bergen is one of 12 districts with school elections in April, in which voters also decide on passage of the annual school budget.