Monroe Township School District

Monroe Township School District
Superintendent: Dr. Kenneth Hamilton
Business Administrator: Michael C. Gorski
Address: 423 Buckelew Avenue
Monroe Township, NJ 08831
Grade Range: K-12
School facilities: 6
Enrollment: 5,399 (as of 2008-09)[1]
Faculty (in FTEs): 446.5
Student–teacher ratio: 12.1
District Factor Group: FG
Web site: http://monroe.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-12
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1 Comparative Cost $13,426 64 $13,632 -1.5%
2 Classroom Instruction 8,158 68 8,035 1.5%
6 Support Services 1,735 37 2,166 -19.9%
8 Administrative Cost 1,542 86 1,379 11.8%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,456 40 1,674 -13.0%
13 Extracurricular Activities 365 101 258 41.5%
16 Median Teacher Salary 55,745 37 57,597
Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with 3,501+ students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=105

The Monroe Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Monroe Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

Students from Jamesburg attend Monroe Township High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Jamesburg Public Schools.[3]

As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's seven schools had an enrollment of 5,399 students and 446.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1.[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.[4]

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Awards and recognition

During the 1991-92 academic school year, Mill Lake Elementary School received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. This honor was followed during the 1998-99 academic school year at Barclay Brook Elementary School. Monroe Township could now boast that both their pre-K through third grade schools received the honor.[5]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[6]) are:

Elementary Schools
Middle School
High School

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[7][8]

References

  1. ^ a b District information for the Monroe Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 27, 2011.
  2. ^ Comparative Spending Guide March 2009, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 28, 2009.
  3. ^ Cheslow, Jerry. "A Townful of Empty Nesters", The New York Times, October 14, 2007. Accessed August 8, 2008. "In addition to the four elementary schools, the Applegarth Middle School teaches Grades 7 and 8, and the 1,400-student Monroe Township High School covers Grades 9 through 12. It is shared with the borough of Jamesburg, the “hole in the doughnut” municipality in the center of the township."
  4. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 27, 2009.
  5. ^ Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), United States Department of Education. Accessed March 27, 2011.
  6. ^ Data for the Monroe Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 27, 2011.
  7. ^ Administration, Monroe Township School District. Accessed March 27, 2011.
  8. ^ Middlesex County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.

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