Millburn Township Public Schools

Millburn Township Public Schools
Superintendent: Dr. Richard Brodow
Business Administrator: Robert Zeglarski
Address: 434 Millburn Avenue
Millburn, NJ 07041
Grade Range: K-12
School facilities: 7
Enrollment: 4,664 (as of 2007-08)[1]
Faculty (in FTEs): 314.0
Student–teacher ratio: 14.9
District Factor Group: J
Web site: http://schools.millburn.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-12
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1 Comparative Cost $14,695 81 $13,632 7.8%
2 Classroom Instruction 8,621 76 8,035 7.3%
6 Support Services 2,758 88 2,166 27.3%
8 Administrative Cost 1,396 64 1,379 1.2%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,523 49 1,674 -9.0%
13 Extracurricular Activities 344 91 258 33.3%
16 Median Teacher Salary 67,918 89 57,597
Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with 3,501+ students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=105

The Millburn Township Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in prekinderagrten through twelfth grade from Millburn, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's seven schools had an enrollment of 4,664 students and 314.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.9.[1]

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Awards and recognition

During the 2007-08 school year, Millburn School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education[3][4], the highest award an American school can receive.[5][6]

The high school was recently ranked as Number 148 in Newsweek Magazine's listing of "America's Best High Schools" in the August 5, 2005 issue.[7] Millburn High School was ranked third of 316 New Jersey public high schools in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.[8]

The district was selected as one of the top "100 Best Communities for Music Education in America 2006" by the American Music Conference.[9]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[10]) are:

Elementary Schools (K-5)
Middle School
High School

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b District information for the Millburn Township 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. ^ Addison, Kasi; and Juri, Carmen. "Three Essex schools capture blue ribbon", The Star-Ledger, October 7, 2007. Accessed October 14, 2007. "Principals in three Essex County schools found out last week their buildings joined an exclusive club of exemplary schools when the U.S. Department of Education named the nation's latest batch of No Child Left Behind -- Blue Ribbon Schools.... The three Essex County schools are Oakview School in Bloomfield, Millburn High School and Harriet Tubman School in Newark."
  4. ^ No Child Left Behind - Blue Ribbon Schools Program: 2007 Schools, United States Department of Education. Accessed October 15, 2007.
  5. ^ CIBA cited as one of the best by Education Department, Journal Inquirer, November 16, 2006. "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10 percent of their state's testing scores over several years or show significant gains in student achievement. It is considered the highest honor a school can achieve."
  6. ^ Viers Mill School Wins Blue Ribbon; School Scored High on Statewide Test; The Washington Post. September 29, 2005 "For their accomplishments, all three schools this month earned the status of Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the U.S. Education Department can bestow upon a school."
  7. ^ "America's Best High Schools", Newsweek Magazine, August 5, 2005
  8. ^ Top Public High Schools in New Jersey, New Jersey Monthly, September 2006
  9. ^ Best 100 Communities for Music Education in America, 2006, accessed December 12, 2006
  10. ^ Data for the Millburn Township Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 13, 2008.
  11. ^ Contact Us, Millburn Township Public Schools. Accessed August 4, 2008.
  12. ^ Essex County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.

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