Green Brook School District

Green Brook School District
Address
132 Jefferson Avenue
Green Brook, NJ 08812
United States
Coordinates 40°36′13″N 74°28′01″W / 40.6035°N 74.466842°W / 40.6035; -74.466842Coordinates: 40°36′13″N 74°28′01″W / 40.6035°N 74.466842°W / 40.6035; -74.466842
District information
Grades PreK-8
Superintendent Kevin Carroll
Business administrator Heather Spitzer
Schools 2
Students and staff
Enrollment 1,363 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 77.6 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 17.6:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group GH
Website http://www.gbtps.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-8
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$17,70450$18,891-6.3%
1Budgetary Cost13,3603314,159-5.6%
2Classroom Instruction7,616148,659-12.0%
6Support Services2,016402,167-7.0%
8Administrative Cost1,804721,54716.6%
10Operations & Maintenance1,448361,612-10.2%
13Extracurricular Activities1817910474.0%
16Median Teacher Salary53,9701161,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with more than 750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=84

The Green Brook School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Green Brook Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its two schools had an enrollment of 1,363 students and 77.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.6:1.[1]

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.[3]

Green Brook's public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Watchung Hills Regional High School in Warren Township. Students from Green Brook and from the neighboring communities of Watchung, Warren Township (in Somerset County), and Long Hill Township (in Morris County) attend the school.[4][5]As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 2,205 students and 170.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1.[6]

Awards and recognition

For the 1998-99 school year, Irene E. Feldkirchner Elementary School was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon School Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.[7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9][10]

Elementary school
  • Irene E. Feldkirchner Elementary School[11] (grades PreK-4; 458 students)
    • Susan Wardell, Principal
Middle school
  • Green Brook Middle School[12] (5-8; 439)
    • Dr. James Bigsby, Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[13][14]

  • Kevin Carroll, Superintendent of Schools
  • Heather Spitzer, Business Administrator and Board Secretary

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Green Brook Township Public 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 February 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ Watchung Hills Regional High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed JNovembe 14, 2017. "Located in Somerset County, 25 miles from New York City, the school serves the suburban communities of Green Brook, Long Hill, Warren, and Watchung."
  5. ↑ Somerset County School Districts-Sending/Receiving/Regional, Somerset County Superintendent of Schools. Accessed June 4, 2016. "WATCHUNG HILLS ** 9-12 RECEIVES 9-12 FROM GREEN BROOK, WARREN, WATCHUNG, LONGHILL"
  6. ↑ School data for Watchung Hills Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), United States Department of Education. Accessed March 28, 2011.
  8. ↑ School Data for the Green Brook School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ 2016-2017 Somerset County Public School Directory, Somerset County, New Jersey. Accessed May 19, 2017.
  10. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Green Brook School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ Irene E. Feldkirchner Elementary School, Green Brook Township Public Schools. Accessed March 2, 2017.
  12. ↑ Green Brook Middle School, Green Brook Township Public Schools. Accessed March 2, 2017.
  13. ↑ Administration, Green Brook Township School District. Accessed March 2, 2017.
  14. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Somerset County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 2, 2015.
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