Ringwood Public School District

The Ringwood Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Ringwood in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprising four schools, had an enrollment of 1,045 students and 103.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.1:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-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.

Students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Lakeland Regional High School in Wanaque, which serves students from the Boroughs of Ringwood and Wanaque. As of the 2020–21 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 924 students and 81.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1.

Schools
Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics ) are:
 * Elementary schools
 * Peter Cooper Elementary School with 228 students in grades K-3 (built in 1963)
 * Timothy Johnson, principal
 * Robert Erskine Elementary School with 185 students in grades K-3 (built in 1960)
 * Gregg Festa, principal
 * Eleanor G. Hewitt Intermediate School with 246 students in grades 4-5 (built in 1937 with an annex built in 1952 and trailers added in 1959)
 * Kevin Brentnall, principal
 * Middle school
 * Martin J. Ryerson Middle School with 389 students in grades 6-8 (built in 1970)
 * David Waxman, principal

Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
 * Nicholas Bernice, superintendent of Schools
 * Eulalia Gillis, interim business administrator and board secretary

Board of education
The district's board of education is composed of nine members who set policy and oversee 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 (since 2012) 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.