Toms River Regional Schools
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toms River Regional Schools is a regional public school district primarily located in the quickly growing coastal community of Toms River, located in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, along the state's Jersey Shore.
The area, with approximately 110,000 residents, most of whom in live in Toms River Township, has roughly 19,000 students enrolled in the regional school system's 18 schools, making it the largest suburban school district in the state, and the fourth largest school district in New Jersey (after Newark, Jersey City and Paterson).[1]
The district includes the boroughs of Beachwood (2,202 students from a 2000 Census population of 10,375), Pine Beach (325 students; 1,950) and South Toms River (830 students; 3,634), along with Toms River Township (14,919 students; 89,706).[2]
The district has three high schools (East, North, South), as well as three middle schools (East, North, South). Intermediate East and West, which was recently renamed Intermediate North, (Grades 6-8) are currently the two most populous middle schools in New Jersey at 1,660 and 1,363 students respectively. Intermediate South opened in 2005 with approximately 1,300 students. Coinciding with the opening of the new middle school, 6th grade classes were shifted from the elementary schools to middle schools in order to alleviate overcrowding in the districts elementary schools. Toms River Regional also has twelve elementary schools.
The district also operates one elementary school in Seaside Heights.
To raise money for the schools, the district created Toms River Fest, a major festival held during the summer.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth 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]
Contents |
[edit] Awards and recognition
- The Toms River Regional School District ranked first in Ocean County and second in the state for the lowest per pupil cost for the 2006-2007 fiscal year, according to the New Jersey Department of Education's Comparative Spending Guide.
- For the 2005-06 school year, the district was recognized with the "Best Practices Award" by the New Jersey Department of Education for its "Career Day" Career Education program at East Dover Elementary School.[4]
- For the 1993-94 school year, Toms River Alternate School - High School South was named as a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve.[5]
[edit] Schools
Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[6]) are:
- Elementary schools (grades K-5)
- Beachwood (575 students)
- Cedar Grove (916)
- Joseph Citta School (705)
- East Dover (798)
- Hooper Avenue (853)
- North Dover (711)
- Pine Beach (445)
- Silver Bay (745)
- South Toms River (376)
- Walnut Street (916)
- Washington Street (402)
- West Dover (453)
- Intermediate schools (grades 6-8)
- Intermediate East (1,693)
- Intermediate North (1,344; formerly Intermediate West)
- Intermediate South (1,216)
- High schools (grades 9-12)
- Toms River High School East (1,823)
- Toms River High School North (2,365)
- Toms River High School South (1,590)
[edit] Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[7]
- Michael J. Ritacco, Superintendent of Schools
- William Cardone, Assistant Superintendent of Schools
- Michael S. Citta, Assistant Superintendent of Schools
- Gary Cranston, Assistant Superintendent of Schools
- Debra McKenna, Assistant Superintendent of Schools
- Frank Roselli, Assistant Superintendent of Schools
[edit] References
- ^ Ocean County Economic Development Fast Facts, Ocean County, New Jersey. Accessed August 25, 2008.
- ^ Toms River Regional School District 2007 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2008. "With a student population in excess of 17,000, twelve elementary schools, three intermediate schools and three high schools, Toms River Regional School District is the largest suburban school districts in the state. Respective of our size, the district takes enormous pride in the neighborhood school concept providing high-quality educational programs and services to our four sending towns: Beachwood, Toms River, Pine Beach, and South Toms River."
- ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 27, 2009.
- ^ New Jersey Department of Education Best Practices Award recipient for 2005-06, accessed October 23, 2006
- ^ Star School Award recipient detail, New Jersey Department of Education, Archived December 18, 2006. Accessed November 26, 2009.
- ^ Data for the Toms River Regional Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 25, 2008.
- ^ Central Administration Toms River Regional Schools. Accessed August 25, 2008.
[edit] External links
- Toms River Regional Schools
- Toms River Regional Schools's 2007–08 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Toms River Schools Hall of Fame
- Data for the Toms River Regional Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
