About Us, Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Becton Regional is a four-year comprehensive high school which strives to meet the general and individual needs of the students and the communities of Carlstadt, East Rutherford, and most recently Maywood."
Meet the Superintendent, Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District. Accessed January 1, 2025.
Business Administrator, Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District. Accessed January 1, 2025.
Board of Education, Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District. Accessed March 10, 2024. "The Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional Board of Education is a ten-member board with four members elected from Carlstadt, five members elected from East Rutherford, and one representative member from Maywood. Each member is elected for a 3-year term.""
Lanza, Monica P. "Becton High is a reality at last", Herald News, November 15, 1971. Accessed March 10, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Mrs. Irene Mercoun, president of the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Board of Education, formed in 1968, traced the chain of events that culminated in the reality of a regional school for the two towns. 'It all started with a nightmare for East Rutherford High School and the Municipal Square School,' Mrs. Mercoun said. The nightmare was a fire that destroyed the Municipal Square School which was being used by high school students from Carlstadt and East Rutherford. The fire cost the system half of its available facilities for high school students."
"New Becton H.S. - 'out of this world'", Herald News, April 26, 1971. Accessed March 10, 2024. "The south wing of the Henry P. Becton Regional High School reflects the progress on the $4.3 million facility slated for opening in September. The school with a capacity of 1,100 students, can be expanded in the future by an addition to the wing..... The building, set on a 2.6-acre tract donated by Becton, Dickinson & Co., off Paterson Avenue at Route 17, is essentially completed."
McGuire. Jane. "New Schools, Smooth Start", The Record, September 10, 1971. Accessed April 3, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Approximately 800 students from Carlstadt and East Rutherford entered the classrooms of the Henry P. Becton Regional High School yesterday for the first time."
Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2023. Accessed March 10, 2024. "The Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional Board of Education (the 'Board' or the 'District') is an instrumentality of the State of New Jersey, established to function as an education institution. The Board consists of nine elected officials from the Boroughs of Carlstadt and East Rutherford and one appointed representative from the Maywood Board of Education and is responsible for the fiscal control of the District. A Superintendent of Schools is appointed by the Board and is responsible for the administrative control of the District. A School Business Administrator/Board Secretary is also appointed by the Board and oversees the business functions of the District." See "Roster of Officials" on page 15.
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Adely, Hannan. "Becton regional district considers adding Wallington", The Record, January 18, 2015. Accessed March 23, 2015. "Now, the Becton Regional High School district, which takes students from East Rutherford and Carlstadt, is mulling a move to enroll students from Wallington. Supporters say pooling resources would pay for more classes, programs and electives and save Wallington the cost of building another high school.... Carlstadt and East Rutherford each have their own K-8 districts, and the high school has 500 students from the two boroughs. A merger with Wallington would bring in about 350 more."
Stoltz, Marsha A. "Here's why Maywood will send its students to Becton instead of Hackensack High School", The Record, March 9, 2020. Accessed April 6, 2020. "Maywood high school students will have four years to phase out of Hackensack High School and into Henry P. Becton Regional High School in East Rutherford. The process will begin in September, when current Maywood eighth-graders will be the first to attend Becton as freshmen, according to a March 7 joint announcement by the superintendents of the two districts.... The two districts signed a seven-year send/receive contract in 2010 with a per-pupil tuition of $13,125 and a 2% yearly increase. In January 2018, Maywood paid Hackensack's school district $14,781 per student, or $3.7 million for 249 students. It rejected a three-year contract proposed by Hackensack of $15,076 per student the first year and a 5% increase the second.... Maywood eventually agreed to a 10-year contract with Becton at $10,500 per student, with a 2% increase for the fifth contract year and a cap of $11,800 by the 10th year. Becton now has students from East Rutherford and Carlstadt."
Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District, adopted April 14, 2004. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades nine through twelve in the Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District. Composition: The Carlstadt-East Rutherford Regional School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Carlstadt and East Rutherford."
