Westampton Township Schools

Westampton Township Schools
Type and location
Grades K-8
Address 700 Rancocas Road
Westampton, NJ 08060
District information
Superintendent Virginia Grossman
Business administrator Tracy McGuire
Schools 2
Students and staff
Enrollment 974 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 73.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 13.34:1
Other information
District Factor Group GH
Website http://www.westamptonschools.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$14,74910$18,891-21.9%
1Budgetary Cost11,5601114,159-18.4%
2Classroom Instruction7,383118,659-14.7%
6Support Services1,533102,167-29.3%
8Administrative Cost1,15861,547-25.1%
10Operations & Maintenance1,417301,612-12.1%
13Extracurricular Activities6519104-37.5%
16Median Teacher Salary57,0251861,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with more than 750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=84

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

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 974 students and 73.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.34:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-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, public school students attend the Rancocas Valley Regional High School, a comprehensive regional public high school that is part of the Rancocas Valley Regional High School District, which also serves students from the communities of Eastampton Township, Hainesport Township, Lumberton Township and Mount Holly Township.[4] The school is located in Mount Holly and is part of the Rancocas Valley Regional High School District.[5][6]

Schools

The schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[7]) are:[8][9]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[12] Virginia Grossman, Superintendent[13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for Westampton Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 11, 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 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ History of the Schools, Rancocas Valley Regional High School. Accessed December 11, 2014. "Rancocas Valley Regional High School District, located in historic Mount Holly, serves approximately 40 square miles of the suburban, single-family home townships of Eastampton (6,528), Hainesport (5,951), Lumberton (11,957), Mount Holly (10,230) and Westampton (8,661)."
  5. ↑ High School Sending Districts, Burlington County Library System, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 27, 2006. Accessed December 11, 2014.
  6. ↑ Staff. "Regional School Districts", Burlington County Times, May 25, 2014. Accessed December 11, 2014. "RANCOCAS VALLEY REGIONAL - Serves: Eastampton, Hainesport, Lumberton, Mount Holly, Westampton"
  7. ↑ School Data for the Westampton Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 11, 2014.
  8. ↑ Our Schools, Westampton Township Public Schools. Accessed December 11, 2014.
  9. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Westampton Township Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 11, 2014.
  10. ↑ Holly Hills Elementary School, Westampton Township Public Schools. Accessed December 11, 2014.
  11. ↑ Westampton Township Middle School, Westampton Township Public Schools. Accessed December 11, 2014.
  12. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Burlington County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 11, 2014.
  13. ↑ Office of the Superintendent, Westampton Township Schools. Accessed December 11, 2014.
  14. ↑ Business Office, Westampton Township Schools. Accessed December 11, 2014.

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Coordinates: 40°00′13″N 74°47′21″W / 40.00362°N 74.789169°W