Greenwich Township School District (Warren County, New Jersey)

Greenwich Township School District
101 Wyndham Farm Boulevard
Stewartsville, NJ 08886
District information
Grades PreK-8
Superintendent Maria Eppolite
Business administrator Tim Mantz
Schools 2
Students and staff
Enrollment 1,177 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 64.9 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 18.1:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group I
Website http://www.gtsd.net
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-8
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$13,6452$18,891-27.8%
1Budgetary Cost9,828214,159-30.6%
2Classroom Instruction6,13228,659-29.2%
6Support Services1,51692,167-30.0%
8Administrative Cost1,15341,547-25.5%
10Operations & Maintenance1,00131,612-37.9%
16Median Teacher Salary54,7191261,136
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 Greenwich Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Greenwich Township, in Warren County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its two schools had an enrollment of 1,177 students and 64.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 18.1:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-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 Phillipsburg High School in Phillipsburg, which serves students from the Town of Phillipsburg as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Phillipsburg School District. The high school also serves students from four other sending communities: Alpha, Bloomsbury (in Hunterdon County), Lopatcong Township and Pohatcong Township.[4][5][6][7] As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,631 students and 117.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.9:1.[8]

In 2016, the Bloomsbury School District announced that it was pursuing a $30,000 study to consider merger / consolidation with the Greenwich Township School District, citing the "financial instability" the Bloomsbury district faces based on the way the Phillipsburg district calculates the costs for students sent for high school. The notice to residents announcing the feasibility study stated that the Greenwich district was chosen based on the quality of its academic programs, shared superintendent and business administrator, proximity, financial stability and shared sending relationship with Phillipsburg for high school.[9]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[10]) are:[7][11][12][13]

  • Greenwich Elementary School for pre-Kindergarten to grade 5 (511 students)
    • Nichole Hutnik, Principal[14]
  • Stewartsville Middle School for grades 6 - 8 (297 students)
    • Stephanie Snyder, Principal[14]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[14][15]

  • Maria Eppolite, Superintendent of Schools
  • Tim Mantz, School Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Greenwich 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. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ Phillipsburg High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 1, 2016. "At the secondary level, the district serves not only students from the town of Phillipsburg which makes up 37.6% of the high school population, but also students from the surrounding boroughs of Alpha and Bloomsbury, as well as the townships of Greenwich, Lopatcong, and Pohatcong."
  5. ↑ About PSD, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed June 1, 2016. "The district serves students from the Town of Phillipsburg and five sending communities at the secondary level: Alpha, Bloomsbury, Greenwich, Lopatcong and Pohatcong Townships."
  6. ↑ Municipal Guide to Public School Districts, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed June 1, 2016.
  7. 1 2 2014 Official Directory, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed March 2, 2015.
  8. ↑ School data for Phillipsburg High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  9. ↑ Merger/Consolidation Fact Sheet #1, Bloomsbury School District, April 15, 2016. Accessed January 17, 2017. "Question/Comment: Why is the Board attempting a merger/consolidation?Response: In short, it is due to the financial instability of our district. You first have to know how we pay the Phillipsburg School District for our high school students to understand how this happened."
  10. ↑ School Data for the Greenwich Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  11. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Greenwich Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  12. ↑ Schools, Greenwich Township, Warren County. Accessed January 15, 2017.
  13. ↑ Warren County Department of Education Public School Directory 2016-2017, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed January 17, 2017.
  14. 1 2 3 2016-2017 Staff Members, Greenwich Township School District. Accessed January 17, 2017.
  15. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Warren County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.

Coordinates: 40°40′51″N 75°07′45″W / 40.680723°N 75.129237°W / 40.680723; -75.129237

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