Little Egg Harbor Township School District
| Little Egg Harbor Township School District | |||||
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| Superintendent: | Dr. Frank Kasyan | ||||
| Business Administrator: | Lynn Coates | ||||
| Address: | 307 Frog Pond Road Little Egg Harbor, NJ 08087 |
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| Grade Range: | K-6 | ||||
| School facilities: | 2 | ||||
| Enrollment: | 1,765 (as of 2008-09)[1] | ||||
| Faculty (in FTEs): | 148.3 | ||||
| Student–teacher ratio: | 11.9 | ||||
| District Factor Group: | B | ||||
| Web site: | http://www.lehsd.k12.nj.us | ||||
| Ind. | Per Pupil | District Spending |
Rank (*) |
K-6 Average |
%± vs. Average |
| 1 | Comparative Cost | $11,981 | 23 | $12,195 | -1.8% |
| 2 | Classroom Instruction | 7,177 | 22 | 7,366 | -2.6% |
| 6 | Support Services | 2,275 | 42 | 1,832 | 24.2% |
| 8 | Administrative Cost | 1,346 | 15 | 1,389 | -3.1% |
| 10 | Operations & Maintenance | 1,135 | 10 | 1,472 | -22.9% |
| 13 | Extracurricular Activities | 33 | 19 | 40 | -17.5% |
| 16 | Median Teacher Salary | 52,125 | 30 | 52,691 | |
| Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2] *Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=62 |
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The Little Egg Harbor Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade from Little Egg Harbor Township School, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.
Students in grades 7 - 12 attend the schools of the Pinelands Regional School District, which serves students from Bass River Township, Eagleswood Township, Little Egg Harbor Township and Tuckerton Borough.[3] The district includes Pinelands Regional Junior High School (1,082 students in grades 7-9) and Pinelands Regional High School (888 students in grades 10-12). The current combined enrollment is nearly 2,000 students. The student to teacher ratio is 25:1 in the high school, and 22:1 in the middle school.
As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 1,765 students and 148.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9.[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.[4]
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[edit] History
The district is composed of two elementary schools. The George J Mitchell School opened in 1953 as the "Little Egg Harbor Elementary School", housing grades K-6. In 1989, a new school, the Frog Pond Elementary School opened as the "Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School", housing grades 3-6, while the Mitchell School housed grades K-2 from then on.
Starting the 2009-2010 school year, both schools were renovated and converted into K-6 schools, with the Intermediate School being renamed to its current name.
[edit] Schools
Schools in the district (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[5]) are:
- George J. Mitchell Elementary School (781 students)
- Jacqueline Truzzolino - Principal
- Walter Kappeler - Assistant Principal
- Patricia DeGeorge - Assistand Principal
- Frog Pond Elementary School, then known as Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School (984)
- Troy Henderson - Principal
- Paul Nazarok - Assistant Principal
- Connie Fugere - Assistant Principal
[edit] Strafing incident
On November 4, 2004, at around 9pm, an F-16 Fighting Falcon jet from the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, based at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on a training mission at the Fort Dix United States Army installation in Warren Grove was climbing upward at 8,000 feet. The test was going pretty well, until a heavy gun from the left wing fired 25 rounds of 20mm ammunition up in the air, which fell to the ground, with eight striking the roof of the school, and the rest hitting the parking lot, and the side of the building. No one was injured in the incident.
On November 1, 2006, the district and the United States Air Force announced that a settlement had been reached, whereby the district would be paid $519,070.70 to cover damage to the roof of the school caused in the incident. This is less than the $900,000 that the superintendent had indicated would be needed to cover the costs of replacing the roof damaged in the incident and in the process of evaluating the roof's condition after the incident.[6]
[edit] Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[7][8]
- Dr. Frank Kasyan, Superintendent
- Lynn Coates, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
[edit] References
- ^ a b District information for the Little Egg Harbor Townshi School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 17, 2011.
- ^ Comparative Spending Guide March 2009, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 28, 2009.
- ^ Pinelands Regional School District 2007 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 27, 2008. "The Pinelands Regional School District covers the municipalities of Bass River, Eagleswood, Little Egg Harbor, and Tuckerton in Ocean and Burlington Counties."
- ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 27, 2009.
- ^ Data for the Little Egg Harbor Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 17, 2011.
- ^ Little Egg school shot by jet to get $519,000, Press of Atlantic City, November 2, 2006.
- ^ Board of Education , Little Egg Harbor Township School District. Accessed December 2, 2009.
- ^ Ocean County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.
[edit] External links
- Little Egg Harbor Township School District
- Little Egg Harbor Township School District's 2009–10 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Little Egg Harbor Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics
- Pinelands Regional School District
Coordinates: 39°37′42″N 74°19′44″W / 39.628458°N 74.328832°W
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