Winfield Township School District

Winfield Township School District
Type and location
Grades pre-K to 8
Address 7 1/2 Gulfstream Avenue
Winfield, NJ 07036
District information
Superintendent Alice Krihak
Business administrator Thomas West
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 150 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 16.6 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 9.04:1
Other information
District Factor Group B
Website www.winfieldschool.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$17,96433$18,891-4.9%
1Budgetary Cost15,2063614,1597.4%
2Classroom Instruction9,505428,6599.8%
6Support Services2,248282,1673.7%
8Administrative Cost1,428131,547-7.7%
10Operations & Maintenance1,856421,61215.1%
13Extracurricular Activities1704110463.5%
16Median Teacher Salary59,0464061,136
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 Winfield Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in Pre-Kindergarten to eighth grade from Winfield Township in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 150 students and 16.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.04:1.[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]

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend David Brearley High School in Kenilworth, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Kenilworth Public Schools.[4] Before the current sending relationship had been established with Brearley, students had attended Rahway High School until a decision by the New Jersey Department of Education in March 2000 allowed for termination of the relationship.[5]

School

Winfield School serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade. The school offers a class for students with special needs. The school had 150 students enrolled as of the 2011-12 school year.[6]

The Winfield School fields both boys and girls sports teams. Sports offered include soccer, basketball, street hockey (sponsored by the New Jersey Devils), and baseball / softball. In 2006, the boys basketball team was undefeated. In 2007, both the girls and boys basketball teams were undefeated,the first time in Winfield history both teams were undefeated in the same year.

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for Winfield Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 30, 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 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ David Brearly High School 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 23, 2015. "David Brearley Middle-High School serves students in Grades 7-12 from Kenilworth, Winfield, and surrounding communities that who participate in the School Choice Program."
  5. ↑ Commissioner of Education's Decision in Board of Education of the Township of Winfield, Union County v. Board of Education of the City of Rahway, Union County, New Jersey Department of Education, March 2, 2000. Accessed September 30, 2014. "Accordingly, the Initial Decision is adopted as the final decision in this matter for the reasons expressed therein. Winfield's application for severance of its sending-receiving relationship with Rahway is hereby granted, subject to its entering into a new sending-receiving relationship with Kenilworth for a minimum of five years. Withdrawal shall be phased out over a four-year period, beginning with the incoming 9th grade class in September 2000."
  6. ↑ School Data for the Winfield Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 30, 2014.
  7. ↑ Our District, Winfield Township School. Accessed September 30, 2014.
  8. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Union County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 30, 2014.

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