Blairstown Township School District

Blairstown Township School District
1 Sunset Hill Road
Blairstown, NJ 07825
District information
Grades K-6
Superintendent Mark Saalfield
Business administrator Molly Petty
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 599 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 48.3 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 12.40:1
Other information
District Factor Group FG
Website http://www.blairstownelem.net/
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-6
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$16,59423$18,891-12.2%
1Budgetary Cost14,1742913,6493.8%
2Classroom Instruction8,683268,3663.8%
6Support Services2,835492,16131.2%
8Administrative Cost1,290101,467-12.1%
10Operations & Maintenance1,271121,552-18.1%
13Extracurricular Activities58283948.7%
16Median Teacher Salary57,6003057,437
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=59

Blairstown Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in Blairstown Township, New Jersey, United States, that serves students in Kindergarten through sixth grade. Students from Hardwick Township, a non-operating school district,[3] attend Blairstown Elementary School.[4]

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 599 students and 48.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.40:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-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.[5]

Students in seventh through twelfth grades for public school attend the North Warren Regional High School in Blairstown, a public secondary high school, serving students from the townships of Blairstown, Frelinghuysen, Hardwick, and Knowlton.[6][7][8]

Schools

Blairstown Elementary School served 599 students in grades K-6, as of the 2011-12 school year.[9]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[11]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Blairstown Township 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. ↑ Letter from Commissioner Lucille Davy to the Hardwick Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education, June 30, 2009. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ Novak, Stephen J. "Hardwick Township School District among 13 'nonoperating' districts eliminated Wednesday", The Express-Times, July 2, 2009. Accessed March 15, 2011. "The Hardwick district had a board of education and a part-time board secretary. But without a school of its own, it paid tuition to send its students to Blairstown Township. They'll continue to go there next school year, when the neighboring district takes control through a state order."
  5. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  6. ↑ North Warren Regional High School 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 18, 2015. "The North Warren Regional School District is home to approximately 950 students from the communities of Blairstown, Frelinghuysen, Hardwick, and Knowlton."
  7. ↑ Home Page, North Warren Regional School District. Accessed June 1, 2013. "North Warren Regional is a public secondary school district, serving students in grades 7-12 in the townships of Blairstown, Frelinghuysen, Hardwick, and Knowlton. The district covers 96.8 square miles bordering the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in scenic Warren County."
  8. ↑ Municipal Guide to Public School Districts, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  9. ↑ School Data for the Blairstown Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  10. ↑ Principal, Blairstown Elementary School. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  11. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Warren County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  12. ↑ Meet the Superintendent, Blairstown Elementary School. Accessed December 6, 2014.

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Coordinates: 40°58′56″N 74°57′17″W / 40.982224°N 74.954773°W / 40.982224; -74.954773

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