| Pleasantville Public Schools | |||||
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| Superintendent: | Dr. Garnell Bailey | ||||
| Business Administrator: | Dennis Mulvihill | ||||
| Address: | 900 West Leeds Avenue Pleasantville, NJ 08232 |
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| Grade Range: | K-12 | ||||
| School facilities: | 7 | ||||
| Enrollment: | 3,446 (as of 2009-10)[1] | ||||
| Faculty (in FTEs): | 383 | ||||
| Student–teacher ratio: | 9.00 | ||||
| District Factor Group: | A | ||||
| Web site: | http://www.pps-nj.us/pps/ | ||||
| Ind. | Per Pupil | District Spending |
Rank (*) |
K-12 Average |
%± vs. Average |
| 1 | Comparative Cost | $16,507 | 94 | $13,632 | 21.1% |
| 2 | Classroom Instruction | 8,963 | 84 | 8,035 | 11.5% |
| 6 | Support Services | 3,372 | 100 | 2,166 | 55.7% |
| 8 | Administrative Cost | 1,641 | 96 | 1,379 | 19.0% |
| 10 | Operations & Maintenance | 2,016 | 91 | 1,674 | 20.4% |
| 16 | Median Teacher Salary | 50,293 | 5 | 57,597 | |
| Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2] *Of K-12 districts with 3,501+ students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=105 |
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The Pleasantville Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from the City of Pleasantville, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The district is one of 31 Abbott Districts statewide.[3]
As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's seven schools had an enrollment of 3,446 students and 383 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.0.[1]
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "A", the lowest 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]
Students from Absecon attend the district's high school for grades 9-12 as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[5]
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For the 2005-06 school year, Washington Avenue Elementary School was one of 22 schools statewide selected as Governor’s School of Excellence Winners, an award given to schools that have demonstrated significant improvement over the previous two academic years.[6]
In March 2007, the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education appointed a monitor to supervise and address a series of issues raised regarding the district's financial practices and "to ensure that state school aid is spent efficiently and effectively".[7]
On September 6, 2007, The FBI infiltrates the offices of the Pleasantville Public Schools and arrests five members of the Pleasantville school board as part of a federal corruption case that included several state lawmakers and other public officials. Included in the sweep were the arrests of Assemblymen Mims Hackett and Alfred E. Steele, and Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera.[8] Indictments were filed against four sitting members of the Board of Education charging that they had accepted bribes to steer insurance or roofing business from the district. Charged were Jayson Adams (accused of accepting $15,000 in bribes), James McCormick ($3,500), James Pressley ($32,200) and Rafael Velez ($14,000). Former board member Maurice 'Pete' Callaway, a current Pleasantville councilmember, was accused of accepting $13,000 in bribes as part of the scheme and was sentenced to 12 months in federal prison for his role as bagman in the scheme.[9]
Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[10]) are:
Core members of the district's administration are:[11][12]
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