Pleasantville Public Schools
| Pleasantville Public Schools | |||||
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| Superintendent: | Dr. Garnell Bailey | ||||
| Business Administrator: | Dennis Mulvihill | ||||
| Address: | 900 West Leeds Avenue Pleasantville, NJ 08232 |
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| Grade Range: | K-12 | ||||
| School facilities: | 7 | ||||
| Enrollment: | 3,446 (as of 2009-10)[1] | ||||
| Faculty (in FTEs): | 383 | ||||
| Student–teacher ratio: | 9.00 | ||||
| District Factor Group: | A | ||||
| Web site: | http://www.pps-nj.us/pps/ | ||||
| Ind. | Per Pupil | District Spending |
Rank (*) |
K-12 Average |
%± vs. Average |
| 1 | Comparative Cost | $16,507 | 94 | $13,632 | 21.1% |
| 2 | Classroom Instruction | 8,963 | 84 | 8,035 | 11.5% |
| 6 | Support Services | 3,372 | 100 | 2,166 | 55.7% |
| 8 | Administrative Cost | 1,641 | 96 | 1,379 | 19.0% |
| 10 | Operations & Maintenance | 2,016 | 91 | 1,674 | 20.4% |
| 16 | Median Teacher Salary | 50,293 | 5 | 57,597 | |
| Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2] *Of K-12 districts with 3,501+ students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=105 |
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The Pleasantville Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from the City of Pleasantville, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The district is one of 31 Abbott Districts statewide.[3]
As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's seven schools had an enrollment of 3,446 students and 383 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.0.[1]
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "A", the 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]
Students from Absecon attend the district's high school for grades 9-12 as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[5]
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[edit] Awards and recognition
For the 2005-06 school year, Washington Avenue Elementary School was one of 22 schools statewide selected as Governor’s School of Excellence Winners, an award given to schools that have demonstrated significant improvement over the previous two academic years.[6]
In March 2007, the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education appointed a monitor to supervise and address a series of issues raised regarding the district's financial practices and "to ensure that state school aid is spent efficiently and effectively".[7]
[edit] Controversy
On September 6, 2007, The FBI infiltrates the offices of the Pleasantville Public Schools and arrests five members of the Pleasantville school board as part of a federal corruption case that included several state lawmakers and other public officials. Included in the sweep were the arrests of Assemblymen Mims Hackett and Alfred E. Steele, and Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera.[8] Indictments were filed against four sitting members of the Board of Education charging that they had accepted bribes to steer insurance or roofing business from the district. Charged were Jayson Adams (accused of accepting $15,000 in bribes), James McCormick ($3,500), James Pressley ($32,200) and Rafael Velez ($14,000). Former board member Maurice 'Pete' Callaway, a current Pleasantville councilmember, was accused of accepting $13,000 in bribes as part of the scheme and was sentenced to 12 months in federal prison for his role as bagman in the scheme.[9]
[edit] Schools
Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[10]) are:
- Preschool
- Early Childhood Education with 253 students
- Stephen L. Townsend, Principal
- Elementary Schools (PreK-5)
- Leeds Avenue School with 503 students
- Lisa Stuart-Smith, Principal
- North Main Street School with 288 students
- Ada Barlatt, Principal
- South Main Street School with 456 students
- Rosemay Clarke, Principal
- Washington Avenue School with 380 students
- Carol Reynolds, Principal
- Briggitte White, Principal
- Pleasantville Middle School with 601 students
- High School (9-12)
- Pleasantville High School with 952 students
- Joan Robinson, Interim Principal
- Greyhound Academy
- Kelvin Cherry, Assistant Principal
[edit] Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[11][12]
- Dr. Garnell Bailey, Superintendent
- Dennis Mulvihill, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
[edit] References
- ^ a b District information for the Pleasantville School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 23, 2011.
- ^ Comparative Spending Guide March 2009, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 28, 2009.
- ^ Abbott Districts, New Jersey Department of Education, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 15, 2009. Accessed July 23, 2011.
- ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 27, 2009.
- ^ Bogdan, Jennifer. "For the first time in decades, Absecon's students are choosing public schools over private schools", The Press of Atlantic City, April 5, 2011. Accessed July 23, 2011. "For the first time in at least 30 years, more than half of the school district's eighth-graders are choosing public high schools over private ones.In past years, as many as 90 percent of the district's students opted for private school. But about 55 percent of the district's 93 eighth-graders have plans to go on to publicly-funded schools in September including Pleasantville High School, Atlantic County Institute of Technology and Charter Tech High School for the Performing Arts."
- ^ Snapshots of 2005 Governor’s School of Excellence Winners, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 25, 2006.
- ^ Commissioner Davy Appoints State Monitor for Pleasantville, New Jersey Department of Education press release, March 29, 2007. Accessed July 22, 2007.
- ^ Baldwin, Tom. "11 arrested in N.J. corruption probe", USA Today, September 6, 2007. Accessed September 6, 2007. "Among the arrested were state Assemblymen Mims Hackett Jr. and Rev. Alfred Steele aides in their legislative offices acknowledged. Also reportedly arrested was Samuel Rivera, the mayor of Passaic, and Keith Reid, the chief of staff to Newark City Council President Mildred Crump."
- ^ "Pleasantville Man Sentenced to 12 Months in Prison for Being a “Bagman” for Corrupt Payments to Board of Education Member", Federal Bureau of Investigation press release dated January 28, 2009. Accessed July 23, 2011. "A Pleasantville man was sentenced to 12 months in federal prison today for his conviction on charges of assisting former Pleasantville Board of Education member Maurice “Pete” Callaway in the receipt of cash bribes, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr. announced."
- ^ Data for the Pleasantville Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 23, 2011.
- ^ Administration Main Page, Pleasantville Public Schools. Accessed July 23, 2011.
- ^ Atlantic County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.
[edit] External links
- Pleasantville Public Schools
- Pleasantville Public Schools's 2009–10 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Pleasantville Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
Coordinates: 39°24′49″N 74°31′24″W / 39.413626°N 74.523349°W
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