Margate City Schools

Margate City Schools
8103 Winchester Avenue
Margate City, NJ 08402
District information
Grades K-8
Superintendent Dr. Theresa DeFranco
Business administrator Susan Palaia
Schools 2
Students and staff
Enrollment 492 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 48.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 10.25:1
Other information
District Factor Group DE
Website www.margateschools.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$26,06064$18,89137.9%
1Budgetary Cost20,4976414,15944.8%
2Classroom Instruction11,774648,65936.0%
6Support Services3,631622,16767.6%
8Administrative Cost1,841521,54719.0%
10Operations & Maintenance2,954641,61283.3%
13Extracurricular Activities1353510429.8%
16Median Teacher Salary86,5416361,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64

The Margate City Schools are a community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Margate City, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. Students from Longport Borough, a non-operating school district, jointly attend the district's schools.[3][4]

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 492 students and 48.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.25:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-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.[5]

For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students from Margate and Longport attend Atlantic City High School in Atlantic City, which also serves students from Brigantine and Ventnor City who attend the school as part of sending/receiving relationships, under which the districts paid a base tuition of around $21,000 per student as of the 2011-12 school year.[6][7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9]

Elementary school
Middle school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[11][13]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Margate School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ About Margate and the School District, Margate City School District, Accessed May 23, 2011. "The City of Margate School District is a Type I District providing a full range of educational services appropriate to grade levels K through 8 in the City of Margate and the adjoining Borough of Longport, including special education for handicapped youngsters."
  4. ↑ 13 Non-Operating School Districts Eliminated, New Jersey Department of Education press release dated July 1, 2009. Accessed December 25, 2009.
  5. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 18, 2015.
  6. ↑ Hartgrove, Alicia. Atlantic City High School, South Jersey magazine. Accessed August 19, 2014. "Atlantic City High School welcomes students from five popular Jersey shore cities: Atlantic City, Brigantine, Longport, Margate, and Ventnor."
  7. ↑ Landau, Joel. "Assemblymen would limit Atlantic City High School's sending-district cost", The Press of Atlantic City, March 30, 2011. Accessed August 19, 2014. "Longport, Margate Ventnor and Brigantine all send students to ACHS.... The budget increased the base tuition from $20,630 to $21,127 per student. The actual amount each sending district will pay varies by each town."
  8. ↑ School Data for the Margate City Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 19, 2014.
  9. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Margate City Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed August 19, 2014.
  10. ↑ William H. Ross III Elementary School, Margate City Schools. Accessed August 19, 2014.
  11. 1 2 3 Board and District Administration and Staff, Margate School District. Accessed August 19, 2014.
  12. ↑ Eugene A. Tighe Middle School, Margate City Schools. Accessed August 19, 2014.
  13. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Atlantic County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed August 19, 2014.

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Coordinates: 39°19′52″N 74°30′08″W / 39.331126°N 74.5021°W / 39.331126; -74.5021

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