Barrington Public Schools

Barrington Public Schools
Superintendent: Anthony Arcodia
Business Administrator: Carol Anne Visalli
Address: 311 Reading Avenue
Barrington, NJ 08007
Grade Range: K-8
School facilities: 2
Enrollment: 571 (as of 2007-08)[1]
Faculty (in FTEs): 32.0
Student–teacher ratio: 17.8
District Factor Group: FG
Web site: http://www.barringtonschools.net
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-8
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1 Comparative Cost $13,007 39 $12,420 4.7%
2 Classroom Instruction 7,345 26 7,588 -3.2%
6 Support Services 2,369 55 1,771 33.8%
8 Administrative Cost 1,603 36 1,411 13.6%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,472 40 1,462 0.7%
13 Extracurricular Activities 63 10 97 -35.1%
16 Median Teacher Salary 50,200 13 54,453
Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64

The Barrington Public Schools are a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Barrington, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 571 students and 32.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.8.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth 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.[3]

For grades 9-12, students attend Haddon Heights High School, which serves Haddon Heights, and students from the neighboring communities of Barrington and Lawnside who attend the high school as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Haddon Heights School District.[4]

Contents

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2007-08 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[5]) are:

Culbertson School, one of Barrington's two earliest school facilities, built in 1917[6], was closed in 1985.[7] It was replaced by a Rite Aid, but was switched with Castle Academy in about 1998.[8]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[9]

References

  1. ^ a b District information for the Barrington Borough School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 5, 2009.
  2. ^ Comparative Spending Guide March 2009, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 28, 2009.
  3. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 27, 2009.
  4. ^ About Our School, accessed May 20, 2008.
  5. ^ Data for the Barrington Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2009.
  6. ^ Barrington Becomes a Borough: 1917-1920, accessed April 16, 2007. "School No.2, now known as the Culbertson School, was built in 1917. It was a two-story brick structure whose four class rooms served the fifth through eighth grades."
  7. ^ Progress in the Sixties and Beyond, accessed April 16, 2007. "In 1985, the Culbertson School, located at Clements Bridge Road and Gloucester Pike, was closed. This marked the final chapter for the two original schools."
  8. ^ Barrington resident.
  9. ^ Camden County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.
  10. ^ Superintendent, Barrington School District. Accessed July 18, 2008.
  11. ^ Business Administrator, Barrington School District. Accessed July 18, 2008.

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