Moonachie School District

Moonachie School District
Type and location
Grades pre-K to 8
Address 20 West Park Street
Moonachie, NJ 07074
District information
Superintendent Frank Scarafile
Business administrator Sue Ann Mather
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 271 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 25.8 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 10.50:1
Other information
District Factor Group B
Website www.moonachieschool.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending
Rank
(*)
K-8
Average
%± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$28,73368$18,89152.1%
1Budgetary Cost19,8156014,15939.9%
2Classroom Instruction11,628628,65934.3%
6Support Services3,913612,16780.6%
8Administrative Cost1,985701,54728.3%
10Operations & Maintenance2,058491,61227.7%
13Extracurricular Activities106261041.9%
16Median Teacher Salary66,9806461,136
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 Moonachie Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from Moonachie, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 271 students and 25.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.50:1.[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, approximately 100 public school students attend Wood-Ridge High School in Wood-Ridge, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Wood-Ridge School District.[4]

Schools

Students in PreK-8 attend the Robert L. Craig School which served 271 students (based on 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics).[5]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[6][7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 District information for Moonachie School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 7, 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 7, 2014.
  4. Gavin, John A. "Council tells district to lower student estimates", The Record (Bergen County), May 17, 2010. Accessed September 7, 2014. "The Borough Council wants the one-school district to lower estimates of how many students will attend Wood-Ridge High School, its receiving school, and predictions about how many students will be placed in special education programs outside the district.... The school had calculated that 104 students would enroll in the high school, Vaccaro said."
  5. School Data for the Moonachie School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 7, 2014.
  6. Administrative Office Staff, Moonachie School District. Accessed January 12, 2015.
  7. New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 7, 2014.
  8. Frank R. Scarafile Chief School Administrator, Moonachie School District. Accessed January 12, 2015.
  9. Board of Education Members, Moonachie School District. Accessed September 7, 2014.

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Coordinates: 40°50′36″N 74°02′54″W / 40.843243°N 74.048383°W