Lacey Township School District

Lacey Township School District
200 Western Boulevard Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734
District information
Grades	K-12
Superintendent	Sandra Brower
Business administrator	James G. Savage, Jr.
Schools	6
Students and staff
Enrollment	4,636 (as of 2011-12)
Faculty	355.2 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio	13.05:1
Other information
District Factor Group	DE
Website	http://www.laceyschools.org
Ind. Per Pupil District Spending Rank (*) K-12 Average  %± vs. Average 1A Total Spending $17,210 31 $18,891 -8.9% 1 Budgetary Cost 12,955 22 14,783 -12.4% 2 Classroom Instruction 8,112 24 8,763 -7.4% 6 Support Services 1,857 23 2,392 -22.4% 8 Administrative Cost 861 1 1,485 -42.0% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,612 52 1,783 -9.6% 13 Extracurricular Activities 394 97 268 47.0% 16 Median Teacher Salary 57,348 13 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending. *Of K-12 districts with more than 3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=103

The Lacey Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Lacey Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, along the state's Jersey Shore region.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 4,636 students and 355.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.05:1.

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.

The school district features six schools, four of them being elementary schools. Cedar Creek School (CCS), Lanoka Harbor School (LHS) and Forked River School (FRS) all contain grades K-4. Mill Pond is the fourth elementary school part of the district and holds graded 5-6. Lacey Township Middle School (LTMS) is an intermediate school that holds graded 7-8 and is located behind the high school. Lacey Township High School (LTHS) features grades 9-12 since its creation in 1981.

Schools

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

Elementary schools

• Cedar Creek Elementary School (K-4; 610 students)
  • Jackie Ranuska, principal
• Forked River Elementary School (K-4; 536)
  • Eric Fiedler, principal
• Lanoka Harbor Elementary School (K-4; 565)
  • Jeffrey Brewer, principal
• Mill Pond Elementary School (5&6; 702)
  • Peter Kopack, principal

Middle school

• Lacey Township Middle School (7&8; 738)
  • Jason King, principal

High school

• Lacey Township High School serves students in grades 9-12 (1,485). Its symbol is a lion's paw, for the "Lacey Lions."
  • James Handschuch, principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Sandra Anthony, Superintendent
• Vanessa Clark, Assistant Superintendent
• James G. Savage, Jr., Business Administrator / Board Secretary
• Linda A. Downing, Board of Education President
• Karl Ciao, District Supervisor of Information Technology

External links

• Lacey Township School District
• Lacey Township School District's 2012–13 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Lacey Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics