Winslow Township School District

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Winslow Township School District
Superintendent: Dr. H. Major Poteat
Business Administrator: Dr. Ann Garcia
Address: 30 Cooper Folly Road
Atco, NJ 08004
Grade Range: K-12
School facilities: 9
Enrollment: 5,876 (as of 2009-10)[1]
Faculty (in FTEs): 469
Student–teacher ratio: 12.53
District Factor Group: CD
Web site: http://www.winslow-schools.com
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-12
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1 Comparative Cost $13,011 57 $13,632 -4.6%
2 Classroom Instruction 8,253 73 8,035 2.7%
6 Support Services 1,787 41 2,166 -17.5%
8 Administrative Cost 1,240 29 1,379 -10.1%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,386 29 1,674 -17.2%
13 Extracurricular Activities 203 35 258 -21.3%
16 Median Teacher Salary 71,900 100 57,597
Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with 3,501+ students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=105

The Winslow Township School District is an American comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Winslow Township, in Camden County, New Jersey. The district operates four Elementary Schools (grades Pre-K - 2), two Upper Elementary Schools (grades 3 - 5), one Middle School (grades 6 - 8), and one High School (grades 9 - 12).

As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's nine schools had an enrollment of 5,876 students and 469 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.53.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth 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]

Students from Chesilhurst in Pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Chesilhurst Borough School District. The Chesilhurst district had served public school students in kindergarten through sixth grade at Shirley B. Foster Elementary School. After the completion of the 2008-09 school year, the district was no longer operating any schools and is sending all of its students to the Winslow Township schools as part of an expansion of the pre-existing sending/receiving relationship that commenced in the 2009-10 school year.[4][5]

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[edit] Shooting plot

Winslow Township High School gained national attention in 2006 because of a shooting plot which was to take place during a lunch period. A student became aware of the plot and alerted school officials who in turn notified the Winslow Township Police Department. The students involved were arrested before the plot could be carried out. The only subject to be sentenced at this point has received four years probation and must undergo counseling and psychological evaluations.[6]

[edit] Schools

Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[7] are:

Elementary Schools (PreK-2)

Upper Elementary Schools (3-5)

Middle School (6-8)

High School (9-12)

Other (Ungraded)

[edit] Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[8][9]

  • Dr. H. Major Poteat, Superintendent
  • Dr. Ann Garcia, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b District information for the Winslow Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 17, 2011.
  2. ^ Comparative Spending Guide March 2009, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 28, 2009.
  3. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 27, 2009.
  4. ^ Osborne, James. "N.J. to investigate Chesilhurst school district", The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2010. Accessed July 17, 2011. "Up until last year, Chesilhurst functioned as a traditional school district and maintained a single elementary school. In the spring of 2009, the school board voted to close that school and bus its students to Winslow, leaving Chesilhurst to operate in an administrative capacity with a skeleton staff. Chesilhurst, a small district on the edge of the Pinelands, subsequently was declared a non-operating district by the state and set for closure at the end of June 2010."
  5. ^ Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2010, Chesilhurst Board of Education. Accessed July 17, 2011. "Up through the 2008-2009 fiscal year, the District provided a full range of educational services appropriate to grade levels Pre-K through 6.... Beginning in the 2009-2010 fiscal year, the District entered into a sending/receiving tuition arrangement with Winslow Township Board of Education which included all students."
  6. ^ Principal: Kids' Tips Stopped Shooting CBS News, April 8, 2006.
  7. ^ Data for the Winslow Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 17, 2011.
  8. ^ Staff Directory, Winslow Township School District. Accessed July 17, 2011.
  9. ^ Camden County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.

[edit] External links

Coordinates: 39°44′58″N 74°54′20″W / 39.74938°N 74.905426°W / 39.74938; -74.905426
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