Beverly City Schools

Beverly City Schools
601 Bentley Avenue
Beverly, NJ 08010
District information
Grades Pre-K to 8"
Superintendent Elizabeth Giacobbe
Business administrator George M. Gahles
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 393 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 29.0 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 13.6:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group B
Website www.beverlycityschool.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-8
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$18,92741$18,8910.2%
1Budgetary Cost13,7361814,159-3.0%
2Classroom Instruction8,101198,659-6.4%
6Support Services2,702492,16724.7%
8Administrative Cost1,444151,547-6.7%
10Operations & Maintenance1,419181,612-12.0%
13Extracurricular Activities4819104-53.8%
16Median Teacher Salary56,1492361,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

The Beverly City Schools is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Beverly in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 393 students and 29.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.6:1.[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.[3]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students in public school attend Palmyra High School in Palmyra, together with students from Riverton, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Palmyra Public Schools.[4][5] As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 421 students and 40.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.5:1.[6] Beverly's sending relationship has been in place since 1967 after the City of Burlington Public School District decided that it could no longer accommodate students from Beverly at Burlington City High School.[7]

In 2007, Lucille Davy, then Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, appointed a monitor to oversee the financial operations of the district and be responsible to "return fiscal integrity and sound fiscal health to the district", based on the results of financial audits in previous years, including repeat audit findings and general fund deficits.[8]

School

Beverly City School had an enrollment of 297 students as of the 2014-15 school year.[9]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[10][11]

  • Elizabeth Giacobbe, Superintendent / Principal[12]
  • George M. Gahles, Business Administrator / Board Secretary[13]

Board of Education

The Beverly Board of Education has nine members, each of whom is elected to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year. There is no limit to the number of terms a board member may serve.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Beverly City School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ Administration, Palmyra Public Schools. Accessed January 11, 20174. "Palmyra Public Schools offers a wide range of educational programs for the residents of Palmyra, Beverly City, and Riverton, New Jersey. These programs include a preschool handicapped program at Delaware Avenue Elementary School, a K-6 elementary program at Charles Street Elementary School, and a 7-12 program at Palmyra High School."
  5. ↑ High School Sending Districts, Burlington County Library System, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 27, 2009. Accessed January 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ School data for Palmyra High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ Hefler, Jan. "Crowd Opposes Closing Palmyra High", The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 25, 1989. Accessed November 20, 2013. "Palmyra High School students, their parents and their teachers made it abundantly clear at a public meeting last week that they don't want the Board of Education to shut the high school, the first high school built in Burlington County.... Glenn Gray, superintendent of the Beverly School District, which sends about 80 students to Palmyra High School, said the Beverly board was 'reserving opinion' until a decision was announced.... Since 1967, Beverly students have traveled eight miles - 30 minutes by bus - passing through the Riverside and Delran School Districts, to reach Palmyra High. The reason is that Palmyra was the nearest school that could accept the Beverly students when the Burlington City school district ran out of space for them, Gray said."
  8. ↑ Commissioner Davy Appoints State Monitor for Beverly City, New Jersey Department of Education press release, dated November 28, 2007. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  9. ↑ School Data for the Beverly City School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  10. 1 2 2016-2017 Student Family Handbook, Beverly City Schools. Accessed November 17, 2016.
  11. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Burlington County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  12. ↑ Superintendent/Principal, Beverly City School. Accessed November 17, 2016.
  13. ↑ Business Office, Beverly City School. Accessed December 6, 2014.

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