Lakewood School District (New Jersey)

Lakewood School District
1771 Madison Avenue
Lakewood, NJ 08701
District information
Grades PreK-12
Superintendent Laura A. Winters
Business administrator Regina Robinson
Schools 7
Students and staff
Enrollment 6,208 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 452.4 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 13.7:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group None
Website http://www.lakewoodpiners.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-12
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$25,238101$18,89133.6%
1Budgetary Cost12,5171214,783-15.3%
2Classroom Instruction7,517108,763-14.2%
6Support Services2,520682,3925.4%
8Administrative Cost1,13991,485-23.3%
10Operations & Maintenance1,09841,783-38.4%
13Extracurricular Activities23348268-13.1%
16Median Teacher Salary50,728164,043
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 Lakewood School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in Lakewood Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its seven schools had an enrollment of 6,208 students and 452.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.7:1.[1]

History

The school district provided busing to 18,000 students enrolled at 74 yeshivas as of 2011,[3] which by 2016 had grown to a private school population of 25,000, more than quadruple the number of public school students.[4]

In March 2017, Superintendent Laura Winters stated that due to a proposed $14.7 million decrease of the district budget, the district would be "unable to provide students with a thorough and efficient education required by the New Jersey State Constitution." The proposed cuts may cause 120 teachers to lose their positions.[5]

Demographics

As of 2017, most of the students are black and Latino/Hispanic, while many of the Orthodox Jewish town residents send their children to private Jewish schools.[6]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[7]) are:[8]

Elementary schools (grades PreK-5)
  • Lakewood Early Childhood Center[9] with 274 students in PreK
  • Spruce Street School[10] with 599 students in Kindergarten
  • Ella G. Clarke School[11] with 641 students in grades 1-5
  • Clifton Avenue School[12] with 919 students in grades 1-5
  • Oak Street School[13] with 1,156 students in grades 1-5
  • Piner Elementary School[14] (grades PreK-1; no enrollment data available)
Middle school
  • Lakewood Middle School[15] with 1,147 students in grades 6-8
High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[17][18]

  • Laura A. Winters, Superintendent of Schools
  • Regina Robinson, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Lakewood Township, 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. ↑ Ahearn, James. "Opinion: In Central Jersey, a school imbroglio" Archived 2017-04-07 at the Wayback Machine., The Record (Bergen County), June 5, 2012. Accessed April 6, 2017. "The answer was eye-opening. Eighteen thousand kids. That is, to repeat, 18,000. They attended 74 yeshiva schools, served by 14 bus companies, on 400 routes, more than any other district in the state."
  4. ↑ Rinde, Meir. "Is Lakewood on the Verge of a Meltdown?", NJ Spotlight, June 21, 2016. Accessed April 6, 2017. "State and local educational funding systems aren’t built to handle a town with 25,000 children in religious institutions and 6,000 in the public schools, says Rev. Glenn Wilson."
  5. ↑ Guion, Payton. "Lakewood could fire 100-plus teachers amid $15M shortfall", Asbury Park Press, March 24, 2017. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  6. ↑ Brodie, Leslie. "N.J. School District Strains Under Severe Budget Pressures; The school superintendent in Lakewood is warning that the proposed 2017-18 spending plan would decimate public schools", The Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2017. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ School Data for the Lakewood School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  8. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Lakewood School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  9. ↑ Lakewood Early Childhood Center, Lakewood Public School District. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  10. ↑ Spruce Street School, Lakewood Public School District. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  11. ↑ Ella G. Clarke School, Lakewood Public School District. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  12. ↑ Clifton Avenue School, Lakewood Public School District. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  13. ↑ Oak Street School, Lakewood Public School District. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  14. ↑ Piner Elementary School, Lakewood Public School District. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  15. ↑ Lakewood Middle School, Lakewood Public School District. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  16. ↑ Lakewood High School, Lakewood Public School District. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  17. ↑ District Administration, Lakewood Public School District. Accessed April 6, 2017.
  18. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Ocean County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.

Coordinates: 40°05′50″N 74°12′32″W / 40.097308°N 74.208792°W / 40.097308; -74.208792

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