New Hanover Township School District

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New Hanover Township School District
122 Fort Dix Street
Wrightstown, NJ 08562
District information
Grades pre-K to 8
Superintendent Dr. Cassandra T. Brown (interim)
Business administrator Maria Parry
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 190 (as of 2012-13)[1]
Faculty 20.8 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 9.16:1
Other information
District Factor Group B
Website www.newhanover.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-8
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1A Total Spending $21,276 48 $18,891 12.6%
1 Budgetary Cost 20,538 63 14,159 45.1%
2 Classroom Instruction 12,598 66 8,659 45.5%
6 Support Services 3,647 59 2,167 68.3%
8 Administrative Cost 1,751 45 1,547 13.2%
10 Operations & Maintenance 2,241 54 1,612 39.0%
13 Extracurricular Activities 175 44 104 68.3%
16 Median Teacher Salary 61,383 52 61,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

The New Hanover Township School District is a consolidated public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from two communities in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students from New Hanover Township (including its Cookstown section) and Wrightstown.[3][4]

As of the 2012-13 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 190 students and 20.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.16:1.[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.[5]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students from both New Hanover Township and Wrightstown attend Bordentown Regional High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Bordentown Regional School District, a regional K-12 school district that serves students from Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro Borough.[6][7]

School

  • New Hanover Township School had an enrollment of 176 students as of the 2011-12 school year.[8]
    • Scott Larkin, Principal[9]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[10]

  • Dr. Cassandra T. Brown, Interim Superintendent[11]
  • Maria Parry, Business Administrator / Board Secretary[12]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for New Hanover Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ New Hanover Township School District 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 4, 2015. "Built in 1938 with funding from the Public Works Administration, the New Hanover Township School currently serves the residents of Wrightstown and Cookstown as a vibrant, growing community of diverse learners spanning grades PK through 8."
  4. ↑ 2005 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, April 2005, p. 212.
  5. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ Bordentown Regional School District 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 4, 2015. "The district proudly serves the communities of Fieldsboro, Bordentown City and Bordentown Township.... In addition to the three aforementioned communities, Bordentown Regional High School also welcomes students from New Hanover into its ninth-twelfth grade population."
  7. ↑ Zimmaro, Mark. "Figures suggest deficit in New Hanover send-receive school proposal", Burlington County Times, December 4, 2011. Accessed December 17, 2011. "The idea of sending the district’s sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to the Bordentown Regional Middle School on a tuition basis surfaced last year, but the school board shot down the proposal by a 4-3 vote.... The district has been considering sending 51 middle school students to Bordentown next year, in a similar agreement the districts have with the high school students. Bordentown Regional High School receives New Hanover and Wrightstown students in a 60-year-old agreement."
  8. ↑ School Data for the New Hanover Township School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 13, 2014.
  9. ↑ Principal, New Hanover Township School District. Accessed August 13, 2014.
  10. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Burlington County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 23, 2015.
  11. ↑ Superintendent, New Hanover Township School District. Accessed August 13, 2014.
  12. ↑ Board Office, New Hanover Township School District. Accessed August 13, 2014.

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