Ramsey, New Jersey Ramsey, New Jersey Map highlighting Ramsey's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey.
Map highlighting Ramsey's locale within Bergen County.
Inset: Bergen County's locale within New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Ramsey, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Ramsey, New Jersey State New Jersey Ramsey is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
Ramsey was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1908, from portions of Hohokus Township (now Mahwah Township).
Ramsey has a strong small company surrounding; the town/city ranked 3rd in a Fundera study of the best suburbs in New Jersey for entrepreneurship. Ramsey is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government.
The Borough Council consists of six members propel to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle. The Borough form of government used in Ramsey, the most common fitness used in the state, is a "weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie.
Ramsey is positioned in the 5th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 39th state legislative district. New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District is represented by Josh Gottheimer (D, Wyckoff). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Tedesco III (D, Paramus; term ends December 31, 2018). The seven freeholders are propel at-large in partisan elections on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election each year, with a Chairman, Vice Chairman and Chairman Pro Tempore chose from among its members at a reorganization meeting held each January. Bergen County's Freeholders are Freeholder Chairwoman Joan Voss (D, 2017; Fort Lee), Vice Chairman Steve Tanelli (D, 2015; North Arlington) Chairman Pro Tempore John A.
As of the 2011 12 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 3,017 students and 240.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 12.53:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011 12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Mary A.
Dater Elementary School with 433 students in grades 4 5, Eric Smith Middle School with 743 students in grades 6 8 and Ramsey High School with 971 students in grades 9 12. Students from Saddle River's Wandell School attend the district's middle school and then have the option of attending either Ramsey High School or Northern Highlands Regional High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Saddle River School District and each of the respective districts. Ramsey High School was the 30th-ranked enhance high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 33rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The periodical ranked the school 13th in 2008 out of 316 schools. Public school students from the borough, and all of Bergen County, are eligible to attend the secondary education programs offered by the Bergen County Technical Schools, which include the Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, and the Bergen Tech ground in Teterboro or Paramus.
Paul was one of 15 schools in New Jersey, and one of six private schools, recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in the exemplary high performing category by the United States Department of Education. The older Ramsey NJ Transit Station, on Main Street, is the earliest operating passenger rail station in New Jersey and serves both Main Line and Bergen County Line trains.
As of May 2010, the borough had a total of 65.32 miles (105.12 km) of roadways, of which 51.82 miles (83.40 km) were maintained by the municipality, 11.45 miles (18.43 km) by Bergen County and 2.05 miles (3.30 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. A number of roadways serve Ramsey and its neighboring communities, providing the borough with easy driving access to New York State (including New York City) and other points inside New Jersey.
Route 202 pass through the Darlington section of Mahwah to the west and the New York State Thruway (I-87/I-287) and NY Route 59 run through Suffern, New York to the north.
Ramsey has two NJ Transit train stations which furnish mass transit access to Hoboken Terminal with connections available at Secaucus Junction to Penn Station New York in Midtown Manhattan and other NJ Transit lines. Located on Main Street just east of Central Avenue in the borough's downtown area, the Ramsey Main Street station was constructed in 1868 by the Paterson and Ramapo Railroad and is the earliest operating passenger station in service in New Jersey. The Ramsey Route 17 station, which opened on August 22, 2004, is a park-and-ride facility and county-wide commuter core located along Route 17 South in the northern section of town. Both of these stations are stops along NJ Transit's Main Line and Bergen County Line. See also: Category:People from Ramsey, New Jersey.
In a five-year span, the borough saw the deaths of three Ramsey High School graduates who were serving in the United States Armed Forces: Corporal Michael Jankiewicz (Class of 2006), Staff Sgt.
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"The roots of the northern New Jersey borough date to 1848, when the Paterson and Ramapo Railroad opened a line to connect Paterson with ferries crossing the Hudson River to New York.
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Dater Elementary School, Ramsey Public School District.
Smith Middle School, Ramsey Public School District.
Ramsey High School, Ramsey Public School District.
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"Ramsey's 3,020 students are educated in two K-3 schools, one 4-5 upper elementary school, a middle school for grades 6-8 and a 9-12 high school.
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Northern Highlands Regional High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education.
"A four-year enhance high school, Northern Highlands strives to address the needs of all of its students who come from four suburbs in northern Bergen County: Allendale, Upper Saddle River, Ho-Ho-Kus, and Saddle River." Ramsey Schools Overview, Saddle River School District.
"Following graduation from Fifth grade, students enter Eric Smith Middle School in Ramsey, New Jersey.
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"Northern Highlands High School is positioned in Allendale New Jersey and is one of the two high schools Saddle River students may elect to attend." "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012.
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"Fifteen New Jersey schools have been recognized by the federal government as National Blue Ribbon Schools, a designation that jubilates excellence in academics or progress in method the achievement gap among groups of students....
Each of the 15 New Jersey schools was chosen for the 'exemplary high performing' category, which weighs state or nationwide tests, high school graduation rates and the performance of subgroups of students, such as those who are economically disadvantaged." Bergen County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction, New Jersey Department of Transportation, May 2010.
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Schedule Details: Ramsey, NJ to New York, NY, Short Line (bus company).
"Congratulating the borough of Ramsey, New Jersey, on its 100th Anniversary", Congressional Record, Volume 154, Number 40 (Monday, March 10, 2008).
"When she was a girl, her family moved to New Jersey, then one of the several states that let blind kids attend school with their sighted peers.
She attended enhance schools in Ramsey, in Bergen County." "Ramsey resident signs with Fort Lauderdale Strikers", Ramsey Suburban News, April 18, 2013.
"Louise Eisenhardt was born in Ramsey, New Jersey, about 1900, to Albert and Ella Knoll Eisenhardt." "Jonathan Halyalkar, born in Ramsey, New Jersey, actor, Billy-Who's the Boss".
"I was born in Mahopac, New York, but interval up in Ramsey, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City." "Nets, Mc - Adoo Stuck On Contract Terms", The New York Times, March 13, 1981.
"Ryan Mc - Ginley was born in Ramsey, New Jersey in 1977." Timothy Raymond Mc - Gill with homecoming", Ramsey Suburban News, October 3, 2013.
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Ramsey Public School District's 2015 16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education School Data for the Ramsey Public School District, National Center for Education Statistics Municipalities and communities of Bergen County, New Jersey, United States
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Ramsey, New Jersey - 1908 establishments in New Jersey - Borough form of New Jersey government - Boroughs in Bergen County, New Jersey - Populated places established in 1908
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