Stafford Township School District

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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, which allows non-resident students to attend the district's schools without cost to their parents, with tuition covered by the State of New Jersey.[1] Available lots are announced annually by grade.

For grades 7 through 12, students attend the Southern Regional Middle School (grades 7 and 8) and Southern Regional High School (grades 9 - 12). These schools are part of 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 students from Beach Haven and Stafford Township, together with students from Ocean Township who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[2] The current district population is approximately 4,000 students. Both schools are in the Manahawkin section of Stafford Township.

Also seated 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 District.

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[edit] Schools

Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[3]) are

Pre-School
Elementary Schools
Intermediate School

[edit] Administration

  • Ronald L. Meinders - Superintendent
  • Enrico Siano - School Business Administrator and Board Secretary

[edit] References

  1. ^ Interdistrict Public School Choice Program: Approved Choice Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 9, 2008.
  2. ^ Southern Regional High School 2007 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 10, 2008. "Situated in Manahawkin, the Southern Regional High School District draws from the constituent municipalities of Long Beach Township, Beach Haven, Surf City, Ship Bottom, Barnegat Light, Harvey Cedars and Stafford Township, as well as the tuition sending municipality of Ocean Township (Waretown)."
  3. ^ Data for the Stafford Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 10, 2008.

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