Beverly City Schools

Beverly City Schools
Type and location
Grades pre-K to 8
Address 601 Bentley Avenue
Beverly, NJ 08010
District information
Superintendent Elizabeth Giacobbe
Business administrator George M. Gahles
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 307 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 23.9 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 12.85:1
Other information
District Factor Group B
Website www.beverly.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$18,92741$18,8910.2%
1Budgetary Cost13,7361814,159-3.0%
2Classroom Instruction8,101198,659-6.4%
6Support Services2,702492,16724.7%
8Administrative Cost1,444151,547-6.7%
10Operations & Maintenance1,419181,612-12.0%
13Extracurricular Activities4819104-53.8%
16Median Teacher Salary56,1492361,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

The Beverly City Schools is a community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from Beverly in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 307 students and 23.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.85:1.[1]

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

For ninth through twelfth grades, students in public school attend Palmyra High School in Palmyra, together with students from Riverton, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Palmyra Public Schools.[4][5]

In 2007, Lucille Davy, then Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, appointed a monitor to oversee the financial operations of the district and be responsible to "return fiscal integrity and sound fiscal health to the district", based on the results of financial audits in previous years, including repeat audit findings and general fund deficits.[6]

School

Beverly City School had an enrollment of 307 students as of the 2011-12 school year.[7]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[8][9]

Board of Education

The Beverly Board of Education has nine members, each of whom is elected to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year. There is no limit to the number of terms a board member may serve.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for Beverly School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ High School Sending Districts, Burlington County Library System, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 27, 2009. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  5. ↑ Administration, Palmyra Public Schools. Accessed December 6, 2014. "Palmyra Public Schools offers a wide range of educational programs for the residents of Palmyra, Beverly City, and Riverton, New Jersey. These programs include a preschool handicapped program at Delaware Avenue Elementary School, a K-6 elementary program at Charles Street Elementary School, and a 7-12 program at Palmyra High School."
  6. ↑ Commissioner Davy Appoints State Monitor for Beverly City, New Jersey Department of Education press release, dated November 28, 2007. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ School Data for the Beverly City School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 2014-2015 Student Parent Handbook, Beverly City Schools. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  9. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Burlington County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  10. ↑ Home page, Beverly City School. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  11. ↑ Business Office, Beverly City School. Accessed December 6, 2014.

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