Gloucester City Public Schools

Gloucester City Public Schools
520 Cumberland Street
Gloucester City, NJ 08030
District information
Grades K-12
Superintendent Joseph Rafferty
Business administrator Margaret McDonnell
Schools 3
Affiliation(s) Former Abbott district
Students and staff
Enrollment 2,050 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 198.7 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 10.32:1
Other information
District Factor Group B
Website www.gcsd.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-12
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$23,17665$18,89122.7%
1Budgetary Cost19,0356614,78328.8%
2Classroom Instruction10,920668,76324.6%
6Support Services3,532652,39247.7%
8Administrative Cost1,701531,48514.5%
10Operations & Maintenance2,421661,78335.8%
13Extracurricular Activities4294526860.1%
16Median Teacher Salary61,1002364,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with 1,800-3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=68

Gloucester City Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Gloucester City, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide,[3] which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.[4][5]

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 2,050 students and 198.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.32:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "B", the second lowest 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.[6]

Students from Brooklawn attend the district's high school for ninth through twelfth grades as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are

Elementary schools
High schools

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[15][16]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Gloucester School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Abbott Districts, New Jersey Department of Education, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 15, 2009. Accessed August 15, 2012.
  4. ↑ What are SDA Districts?, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed August 15, 2012. "SDA Districts are 31 special-needs school districts throughout New Jersey. They were formerly known as Abbott Districts, based on the Abbott v. Burke case in which the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the State must provide 100 percent funding for all school renovation and construction projects in special-needs school districts.... The districts were renamed after the elimination of the Abbott designation through passage of the state’s new School Funding Formula in January 2008."
  5. ↑ SDA Districts, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed August 15, 2012.
  6. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  7. ↑ Graham, Kristen A. "BROOKLAWN CONSIDERS FINDING NEW DISTRICT FOR HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 16, 2001. Accessed June 19, 2008. "The tiny Brooklawn system, comprising just over 300 students and one school, sends about 80 ninth through 12th graders to the neighboring Gloucester City district, which has more than 2,000 students and four schools."
  8. ↑ School Data for the Gloucester City Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  9. ↑ Cold Springs Elementary School, Gloucester City Public Schools. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  10. ↑ Mary Ethel Costello Elementary School, Gloucester City Public Schools. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  11. ↑ Gloucester City Junior-Senior High School, Gloucester City Public Schools. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  12. ↑ Schools, Gloucester City Public Schools. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  13. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Gloucester City Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  14. ↑ Highland Park School: Gloucester City Adult High School, Gloucester City Public Schools. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  15. ↑ Board of Education, Gloucester City Public Schools. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  16. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Camden County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 5, 2014.

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Coordinates: 39°53′43″N 75°07′18″W / 39.895328°N 75.121701°W / 39.895328; -75.121701

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