South Amboy Public Schools

South Amboy Public Schools
Address
240 John Street South Amboy, NJ 08879 United States
Coordinates	40.481515°N 74.280429°W / 40.481515; -74.280429
District information
Grades	PreK-12
Superintendent	Jorge Diaz
Business administrator	Peter Frascella
Schools	2
Students and staff
Enrollment	1,108 (as of 2015-16)
Faculty	84.0 FTEs
Student–teacher ratio	13.2:1
Other information
District Factor Group	CD
Website	http://sapublicschools.com
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $15,928 7 $18,891 −15.7% 1 Budgetary Cost 11,461 4 14,783 −22.5% 2 Classroom Instruction 7,005 7 8,763 −20.1% 6 Support Services 1,421 3 2,392 −40.6% 8 Administrative Cost 1,510 14 1,485 1.7% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,200 5 1,783 −32.7% 13 Extracurricular Activities 262 3 268 −2.2% 16 Median Teacher Salary 63,282 31 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending. *Of K-12 districts with up to 1,800 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=49

The South Amboy Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from South Amboy, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2015-16 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 1,108 students and 84.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1.

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.

Awards and recognition

NAMM named the district in its 2008 survey of the "Best Communities for Music Education", which included 110 school districts nationwide.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2015-16 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

• South Amboy Elementary School (548 students in grades PreK-5)
• South Amboy Middle High School (522; 6-12)

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Jorge Diaz, Superintendent
• Peter Frascella, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• South Amboy Public Schools
• South Amboy Elementary School
• South Amboy Middle High School
• School Performance Reports for the South Amboy Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the South Amboy Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics