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Vervalen House

Houses in Bergen County, New JerseyHouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New JerseyNational Register of Historic Places in Closter, New JerseyNew Jersey Register of Historic PlacesStone houses in New Jersey
VERVAIN HOUSE, CLOSTER, BERGEN COUNTY, NJ
VERVAIN HOUSE, CLOSTER, BERGEN COUNTY, NJ

The Vervalen House is a historic stone house located at 151 West Street in the borough of Closter in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1983, for its significance in architecture. It was listed as part of the Early Stone Houses of Bergen County Multiple Property Submission (MPS). The house is located near the site of a house built by Bernardus VerValen around 1713. The actual date of this house is unknown. The first recorded information is a sale of the house from Abraham A. Cole to Henry Volk in 1804. It was owned by David Van Valen after 1876.

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VERVAIN HOUSE, CLOSTER, BERGEN COUNTY, NJ
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Norwood Public School District

The Norwood Public School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Norwood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 618 students and 48.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1.The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-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 Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, together with students from Harrington Park, Northvale and Old Tappan, along with students from Rockleigh who attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship. The school is one of the two schools of the Northern Valley Regional High School District, which also serves students from the neighboring communities of Closter, Demarest and Haworth at the Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest. During the 1994–96 school years, Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education. As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,170 students and 97.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.0:1.The district participates in special education programs offered by Region III, one of seven such regional programs in Bergen County. Region III coordinates and develops special education programs for the 1,000 students with learning disabilities in the region, which also includes the Alpine, Closter, Demarest, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northvale and Old Tappan districts, as well as the Northern Valley Regional High School District.