Saddle River Day School

Saddle River Day School is a coeducational, college-preparatory independent day school, located in Saddle River, in Bergen County, New Jersey, serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Its student body is drawn from communities in Bergen, Essex, Passaic, and Morris County in New Jersey and Rockland County in New York.

Saddle River Day School
Address
147 Chestnut Ridge Road

Saddle River
,
Bergen County
,
New Jersey
07458

United States
Coordinates41.030607°N 74.084815°W / 41.030607; -74.084815
Information
TypePrivate Day school
Established1957
NCES School ID00868768[1]
Head of SchoolsJalaj Desai
Faculty43.3 FTEs[1]
GradesK–12
Enrollment302 (plus 4 in PreK, as of 2017–18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio7:1[1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)  Navy blue
  Red and
  white[2]
AthleticsRebels[2]
NicknameRebels
PublicationPeriscope (Alumni)
Parents Guild Newslink
NewspaperThe Rebel Report
YearbookRetrospect
Websitewww.saddleriverday.org

The school was founded in 1957, by John C. Alford, and graduated its first senior class in 1960. Saddle River Day School is composed of three divisions: the Lower Division, the Middle Division and the Upper Division. In 1966 it received accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, which expires in May 2021.[3] The school is also accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools[4] and the National Association of Independent Schools.

As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 302 students (plus 4 in PreK) and 43.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7:1. The school's student body was 78.1% (236) White, 13.9% (42) Asian, 3.6% (11) Black, 3.6% (11) Hispanic and 0.7% (2) two or more races.[1]

Curriculum

The Lower School offers foreign language instruction starting in Kindergarten, which continues as a requirement through 12th grade. The Upper School offers Advanced Placement exams in the following areas: English, United States History, European History, French Literature and/or Language, Latin, Spanish Literature and/or Language, Calculus AB and BC, Biology, Physics, and Chemistry.

Saddle River Day School also offers from anyone in the 9th-12th grades participation in the yearly French Exchange Program. This program includes a two-week homestay in alternate years in Dijon, France.

Athletics

The Saddle River Day School Rebels[2] participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which is comprised of small-enrollment schools in Bergen, Hudson County, Morris County and Passaic County counties, and was created following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[5][6][7] Previously, the school was a member of the all-private Patriot Conference, but after a decision by the NJSIAA in February 2008, both Hawthorne Christian Academy and Saddle River Day School joined the Olympic Division of the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) later that year, and remained in the conference until it was disbanded as part of the NJSIAA's 2010 realignment.[8][9] The BSCL was disbanded as a part of a wide-ranging realignment of high school sports in northern New Jersey, and Saddle River Day moved to the new NJIC in the fall of 2010.

The girls basketball team won the Non-Public Group B state title in 2018 (defeating Rutgers Preparatory School in the tournament final) and 2019 (vs. Trenton Catholic Academy), and was declared as the Non-Public North B sectional champion in 2020 after finals were cancelled due to COVID-19.[10] The team won their first title with a 73-49 win against Rutgers Prep in the finals of the Non-Public B tournament final.[11] The team repeated as winner of the Non-Public B title against trenton Catholic by a score of 79-67 in the title game.[12]

Notable alumni

References
  1. School data for Saddle River Day School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 1, 2020.
  2. Saddle River Day School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. Saddle River Day School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed October 27, 2020.
  4. List of Member Schools, New Jersey Association of Independent Schools. Accessed August 13, 2017.
  5. Mattura, Greg. "Small-school NJIC may debut its own league championship", The Record, January 9, 2017. Accessed August 30, 2020. "The small-school North Jersey Interscholastic Conference may debut its own boys basketball tournament this season, one season after introducing its girls hoops championship. The NJIC is comprised of schools from Bergen, Passaic and Hudson counties and the event offered to the 36 boys teams would serve as an alternative to likely competing against larger programs in a county tournament."
  6. Member Schools, North Jersey Interscholastic Conference. Accessed August 30, 2020.
  7. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  8. Schutta, Gregory. "Two non-publics enter BCSL Olympic", The Record, February 7. 2008. Accessed February 7, 2008.
  9. New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association League Memberships – 2009-2010, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, backed up by the Internet Archive as of July 24, 2011. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  10. NJSIAA Girls Basketball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2020.
  11. Copper, Darren. "Girls basketball: Saddle River Day rips Rutgers Prep to earn first title; IHA's run ends", The Record, March 10, 2018. Accessed October 27, 2020. "The Rebels gave New Jersey a good shake at the Barnabas Center racing past Rutgers Prep 73-49 to claim their first Non-Public B girls basketball state title Saturday. Saddle River Day advances to the six-team Tournament of Champions, which opens Wednesday."
  12. "No. 3 Saddle River Day girls basketball does it again, wins Non-Public B title", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, March 9, 2019, updated August 22, 2019. Accessed October 27, 2020. "That score ended a Trenton Catholic run and put away any doubt in the Non-Public B final. It was all a part of a 30-point night for Sidor as she led Saddle River Day, No. 3 in the NJ.com Top 20, to a 79-67 win over No. 6 Trenton Catholic and jumped into second place all-time for career points in state history."
  13. Wojnarowski, Adrian. "Glick lost his life, but won his final bout", ESPN, September 19, 2011. Accessed January 26, 2011. "He was an all-state wrestler for Saddle River Day School in Northern, N.J., a judo champion."
  14. Salemi, Vicki. "Glorifying JerseyA noted Hollywood screenwriter uses her Jersey roots to help inform her storytelling.", New Jersey Monthly, December 13, 2010. Accessed July 25, 2011. ""It's definitely part of who I am," says the Los Angeles-based scribe, who was born in France and moved with her family to Fort Lee when she was 6 months old. The family later moved to Demarest and then Montvale, where she lived from age seven until college. Brosh McKenna, now 43, attended Saddle River Day School, studied literature at Harvard and, after graduation, co-wrote A Co-Ed's Companion with her college roommate."
  15. Feuer, Alan. "A Teenager's Last Steps on a Trail of Missed Chances", The New York Times, July 29, 2006. Accessed October 20, 2007. "Even the settings seemed cruelly accidental: She began the evening in safety and affluence in Harrington Park, N.J.... She was co-captain of the team at Saddle River Day School in Saddle River, N.J., where the honors English class has been asked to read Pygmalion this summer and earlier this year two students picked up silver medals in the National Latin Exam."
  16. "Never Enough". www.scribd.com. Retrieved January 27, 2020.
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