Stafford Township School District

Stafford Township School District
775 East Bay Avenue
Manahawkin, NJ 08050
District information
Grades pre-K to 6
Superintendent George Chidiac
Business administrator Enrico D. Siano
Schools 5
Students and staff
Enrollment 2,300 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 178.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 12.92:1
Other information
District Factor Group DE
Website www.staffordschools.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-6
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$18,80740$18,891-0.4%
1Budgetary Cost14,0902813,6493.2%
2Classroom Instruction8,325208,366-0.5%
6Support Services2,511392,16116.2%
8Administrative Cost1,335151,467-9.0%
10Operations & Maintenance1,752391,55212.9%
16Median Teacher Salary56,0332657,437
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=59

The Stafford Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade from Stafford Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

The district participates in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program at South Harrison Township Elementary School, having been approved in July 2002 to participate in the program.[3] Seats in the program for non-resident students are specified by the district and are allocated by lottery, with tuition paid for participating students by the New Jersey Department of Education.[4]

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 2,300 students and 178.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.92:1.[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 seventh through twelfth grades, public school students are served by the Southern Regional School District, which serves the five municipalities in the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District — Barnegat Light, Harvey Cedars, Long Beach Township, Ship Bottom and Surf City — along with students from Beach Haven and Stafford Township, together with students from Ocean Township who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[6] Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[7]) are Southern Regional Middle School[8] (grades 7 and 8; 981 students) and Southern Regional High School[9] (grades 9 - 12; 2,077). Both schools are in the Manahawkin section of Stafford Township.

Also located in Manahawkin is the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science. It is located within a quarter mile of Southern Regional High School. MATES is a comprehensive and challenging career high school. It is part of the Ocean County Vocational Technical School.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[10]) are:[11]

Preschool
Elementary schools
Intermediate school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[17]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Stafford Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Interdistrict Public School Choice Program: Approved Choice Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 19, 2008.
  4. ↑ Interdistrict Public School Choice Program: Introduction, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 19, 2008.
  5. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed January 25, 2015.
  6. ↑ Southern Regional High School 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 23, 2015. "Located in Manahawkin, the Southern Regional School District draws from the constituent districts of Long Beach Township, Beach Haven, Surf City, Ship Bottom, Barnegat Light, Harvey Cedars and Stafford Township, as well as the tuition sending district of Ocean Township (Waretown)."
  7. ↑ School Data for the Southern Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ Southern Regional Middle School, Southern Regional School District. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  9. ↑ Southern Regional High School, Southern Regional School District. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  10. ↑ School Data for the Stafford Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  11. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Stafford Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  12. ↑ Oxycocus School, Stafford Township School District. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  13. ↑ Ocean Acres Elementary School, Stafford Township School District. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  14. ↑ Ronald L. Meinders Primary Learning Center, Stafford Township School District. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  15. ↑ McKinley Avenue Elementary School, Stafford Township School District. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  16. ↑ Stafford Intermediate School, Stafford Township School District. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  17. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Ocean County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  18. ↑ Meet the Superintendent, Stafford Township School District. Accessed July 23, 2014.

External links

Coordinates: 39°41′00″N 74°13′59″W / 39.683342°N 74.233088°W / 39.683342; -74.233088

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