Roxbury School District

Roxbury School District
42 N. Hillside Avenue
Succasunna, NJ 07876
District information
Grades K-12
Superintendent Loretta L. Radulic
Business administrator Patricia Wilson
Schools 7
Students and staff
Enrollment 3,637 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 325.5 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 11.2:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group GH
Website http://www.roxbury.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-12
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$18,98361$18,8910.5%
1Budgetary Cost14,9046014,7830.8%
2Classroom Instruction8,904618,7631.6%
6Support Services2,343532,392-2.0%
8Administrative Cost1,287261,485-13.3%
10Operations & Maintenance1,769641,783-0.8%
13Extracurricular Activities3999826848.9%
16Median Teacher Salary62,6923864,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with more than 3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=103

The Roxbury School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in Roxbury Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its seven schools had an enrollment of 3,637 students and 325.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.2:1.[1]

The district's high school serves students from Roxbury, as well as those from Mount Arlington, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[3]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-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.[4]

Schools

Schools in the district consists of the following (with 2016-17 enrollment data from the NJ Schools Performance Report) are:

Elementary schools
  • Franklin Elementary School[5] (307 students; in grades K-4)
    • Lisa Ferrare, Principal
  • Jefferson Elementary School[6] (354; PreK-4)
    • Melissa Cosgrove, Principal
  • Kennedy Elementary School[7] (229; K-4)
    • Eric Renfors, Principal
  • Nixon Elementary School[8] (268; PreK-4)
    • Danielle Lynch, Principal
Middle schools
  • Lincoln / Roosevelt School[9] for grades 5 and 6 (495)
    • Christopher Argenziano, Principal
  • Eisenhower Middle School[10] for grades 7 and 8 (590)
    • Paul Gallagher, Principal
High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[12][13]

  • Mrs. Loretta Radulic, Superintendent
  • Mr. Charles Seipp, Assistant Superintendent
  • Mrs. Maryann Gibbs, Human Resources Director
  • Patricia Wilson, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
  • Mr. Joseph Mondanaro, Assistant Business Administrator / Board Secretary

School policies

The Roxbury School District Board of Education requires that all students stand while the Pledge of Allegiance is being recited. The school makes use of 'Moments of Silence'.[14]

Controversies

Discipline of board member

In April 2011, an administrative law judge ruled that the Roxbury Board of Education acted outside of its authority when it censured Maureen Castriotta, a school board member. Castriotta had differed with other school board members about spending priorities and had protested against a student protest organized by Superintendent Michael Rossi and High School Principal Jeffrey Swanson against funding cuts proposed by Governor Chris Christie. The ALJ vacated the censure, as the matter should have been decided by the School Ethics Commission, rather than by a school board that denied Castriotta's due process.[15] At a June 2010 town hall meeting, Christie supported Castriotta's right to "speak up," and he asked the audience if school administrators would have allowed a student rally that was against the New Jersey Education Association, the state's largest teacher's union.[16]

Employee theft

In April 2015, the lead mechanic for the Roxbury school district's transportation department was charged with stealing about 1,900 gallons of fuel from the district. The mechanic was ordered to pay back the school district the $8,000 value of the fuel and required to give up his right to public employment in the state.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Roxbury Township School District, 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. ↑ O'Dea, Colleen. "State orders impact study of school regionalization", Daily Record (Morristown), November 23, 2008. Accessed January 30, 2011. "Mount Arlington, K-8, sends its high school students to Roxbury, K-12."
  4. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Home - Performance Reports". rc.doe.state.nj.us. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  6. ↑ "Home - Performance Reports". rc.doe.state.nj.us. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  7. ↑ "Home - Performance Reports". rc.doe.state.nj.us. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  8. ↑ "Home - Performance Reports". rc.doe.state.nj.us. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  9. ↑ "Home - Performance Reports". rc.doe.state.nj.us. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  10. ↑ "Home - Performance Reports". rc.doe.state.nj.us. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  11. ↑ "Home - Performance Reports". rc.doe.state.nj.us. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  12. ↑ Central Office Administration, Roxbury School District. Accessed January 21, 2017.
  13. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Morris County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  14. ↑ "ELANOnline District Policies". www.straussesmay.com. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  15. ↑ Goldberg, Dan. "Judge rules against Roxbury school board in censuring member for criticizing principal, superintendent", The Star-Ledger, April 7, 2011. Accessed December 20, 2015. "An administrative law judge ruled that the Roxbury Board of Education acted outside its authority when it censured board member Maureen Castriotta last May for her criticisms of the high school principal and superintendent.Castriotta, who has often clashed with other board members over spending, had objected to the administration's decision to allow high school students to protest Gov. Chris Christie's cuts to education funding."
  16. ↑ Staff. "Christie criticizes Roxbury school district for censuring board member", The Star-Ledger, June 11, 2010. Accessed December 20, 2015.
  17. ↑ Aun, Fred J. "Roxbury School Mechanic Stole, and Sold, Fuel From District", TAP Into Roxbury, April 1, 2015. Accessed August 3, 2017.
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