Moonachie School District

Moonachie School District
20 West Park Street
Moonachie, NJ 07074
District information
Grades Pre-K to 8
Superintendent Dr. Jonathan Ponds
Business administrator Laurel Spadavecchia
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 402 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 29.4 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 13.7:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group B
Website www.moonachieschool.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-8
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$28,73368$18,89152.1%
1Budgetary Cost19,8156014,15939.9%
2Classroom Instruction11,628628,65934.3%
6Support Services3,913612,16780.6%
8Administrative Cost1,985701,54728.3%
10Operations & Maintenance2,058491,61227.7%
13Extracurricular Activities106261041.9%
16Median Teacher Salary66,9806461,136
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 Moonachie Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Moonachie, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 402 students and 29.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.7:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "B", the second lowest 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]

For ninth through twelfth grades, approximately 100 public school students attend Wood-Ridge High School in Wood-Ridge, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Wood-Ridge School District.[4][5] As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 373 students and 44.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.3:1.[6]

Schools

Students in PreK-8 attend the Robert L. Craig School which served 285 students (based on 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics).[7]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[8]

  • Dr. Jonathan Ponds, Superintendent[9]
  • Laurel Spadavecchia, Business Administrator / Bord Secretary[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Moonachie 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 September 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ Moonachie School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 14, 2017. "We service students from grades Pre-k to 8. We send our high school students to Woodridge High School."
  5. ↑ Gavin, John A. "Council tells district to lower student estimates", The Record (Bergen County), May 17, 2010. Accessed September 7, 2014. "The Borough Council wants the one-school district to lower estimates of how many students will attend Wood-Ridge High School, its receiving school, and predictions about how many students will be placed in special education programs outside the district.... The school had calculated that 104 students would enroll in the high school, Vaccaro said."
  6. ↑ School data for Wood-Ridge High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ School Data for the Moonachie School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  8. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Bergen County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ Superintendent/Principal Message, Moonachie School District. Accessed June 14, 2017.
  10. ↑ Board of Education Members, Moonachie School District. Accessed September 20, 2017.

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