Merchantville School District

Merchantville School District
Type and location
Grades pre-K to 8
Address 130 South Centre Street
Merchantville, NJ 08109
District information
Superintendent J. Scott Strong
Business administrator William H. Thompson
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 365 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 26.6 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 13.72:1
Other information
District Factor Group DE
Website www.merchantvilleschool.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$17,70527$18,891-6.3%
1Budgetary Cost13,8542014,159-2.2%
2Classroom Instruction8,669268,6590.1%
6Support Services1,731152,167-20.1%
8Administrative Cost1,794491,54716.0%
10Operations & Maintenance1,502211,612-6.8%
13Extracurricular Activities1583710451.9%
16Median Teacher Salary71,1516861,136
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 Merchantville School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from Merchantville, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 365 students and 26.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.72:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-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 ninth through twelfth grades, students attend Pennsauken High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Pennsauken Public Schools in Pennsauken Township.[4] The Merchantville district has sought to end the relationship with the Pennsauken school and send its students to Haddon Heights High School.[5]

Schools

History

Prior to the opening of Maple Shade High School in 1972, the township's students had been sent for 40 years to Merchantville High School. With the loss of Maple Shade students, Merchantville closed its high school after the end of the 1971-72 school year and started sending its students to Pennsauken High School for grades nine through twelve.[7]

Administration

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for Merchantville School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 2, 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 September 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ Florio, Gwen. "LOOKING BEYOND THE SCHOOL DECISION TIME TO MAKE UP, OFFICIALS SAY, AFTER A DECADE OF FUSSING.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 21, 1992. Accessed July 10, 2008. "Ever since its own high school closed in 1972, the Borough of Merchantville has been sending its public school students to Pennsauken High School."
  5. ↑ "Expert report on the Termination of the Sending-receiving Agreement Between the Merchantville School District and the Pennsauken Public Schools", Merchantville School District, March 2013. Accessed October 15, 2013.
  6. ↑ School Data for the Merchantville School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 2, 2014.
  7. ↑ McPherson, Gary. "Looking back through the Maple Shade archives", The Central Record, December 8, 2010. Accessed September 2, 2014. "With the then brand new Maple Shade High School slated to open its doors in 1972, Merchantville residents were faced with a dilemma. Keep the high school open and support a 200 student building or close the school and send local students to Pennsauken High School instead."
  8. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Camden County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 2, 2014.
  9. ↑ Welcome, Merchantville School District. Accessed September 2, 2014.

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