Frenchtown School District

Frenchtown School District
902 Harrison Street
Frenchtown, NJ 08825
District information
Grades PreK-8
Superintendent Daria Wasserbach
Business administrator Teresa E. Barna
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 204 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 16.2 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 12.6:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group FG
Website www.dvrhs.org/domain/741
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-8
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$19,92843$18,8915.5%
1Budgetary Cost15,6294314,15910.4%
2Classroom Instruction9,674468,65911.7%
6Support Services2,510362,16715.8%
8Administrative Cost1,365101,547-11.8%
10Operations & Maintenance1,841411,61214.2%
13Extracurricular Activities1754410468.3%
16Median Teacher Salary54,7702061,136
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 Frenchtown School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Frenchtown, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 204 students and 16.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.6:1.[1]

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

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend the Delaware Valley Regional High School in Frenchtown, which serves students in western Hunterdon County from Alexandria, Holland and Kingwood Townships along with the boroughs of Frenchtown and Milford.[4][5][6] As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 899 students and 68.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.1:1.[7]

School

Edith Ort Thomas Elementary School had an enrollment of 143 students in the 2014-15 school year.[8]

  • Christina Lauck, Principal[9]

Administration

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

  • Daria Wasserbach, Superintendent
  • Teresa E. Barna, Business Administrator

Board of Education

The Frenchtown Elementary School Board of Education is a seven-member body, elected by the Frenchtown community, that establishes policies, approves personnel, adopts budgets, approves curriculum, awards bids and makes final decisions on educational issues. In February 2012, elections were shifted from April to the November General Election.[12]

Board members

Includes term expiration (3 yr. term).

  • Kate Nugent, (2013 President) - (2015)
  • Laura Buxton (2015)
  • Craig Eckel (2014)
  • Amy Musolino (2014)
  • Teresa Pearson (2014)
  • Jennifer Campbell (2016)
  • Laura Einhorn (2016)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Frenchtown Borough 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. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ Delaware Valley Regional School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 6, 2016. "The Delaware Valley Regional High School District can be found in the heart of pastoral and beautiful Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The District serves students in grades nine through twelve who reside in the five municipalities that comprise our region: Alexandria Township, Frenchtown Borough, Holland Township, Kingwood Township, and Milford Borough."
  5. ↑ About Us, Delaware Valley Regional High School District. Accessed June 6, 2016. "The Delaware Valley Regional High School District can be found in the heart of pastoral and beautiful Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The District serves students in grades nine through twelve who reside in the five municipalities that comprise our region: Alexandria Township, Frenchtown Borough, Holland Township, Kingwood Township, and Milford Borough."
  6. ↑ Chief School Administrators/Sending Districts, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Superintendent of Schools. Accessed June 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ School data for Delaware Valley Regional High School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  8. ↑ School Data for the Frenchtown School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ Building Principal, Frenchtown School District. Accessed January 7, 2017.
  10. ↑ Administration, Frenchtown School District. Accessed January 7, 2017.
  11. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Hunterdon County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  12. ↑ Mustac, Frank. "Frenchtown school board votes to move elections to November", Independent Press, February 1, 2012. Accessed October 18, 2014. "The borough Board of Education unanimously decided to move the school election to November. This move would also eliminate the public vote on the school budget so long as it is under the state-mandated cap."

Coordinates: 40°32′03″N 75°03′45″W / 40.534055°N 75.062556°W / 40.534055; -75.062556

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