Netcong School District

Netcong School District
26 College Road
Netcong, NJ 07857
District information
Grades pre-K to 8
Superintendent Kathleen Walsh
Business administrator Nicole Sylvester
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 426 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 27.5 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 15.5:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group DE
Website www.netcongschool.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-8
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$16,1419$18,891-14.6%
1Budgetary Cost12,5111314,159-11.6%
2Classroom Instruction8,154218,659-5.8%
6Support Services1,29332,167-40.3%
8Administrative Cost1,701411,54710.0%
10Operations & Maintenance1,238111,612-23.2%
13Extracurricular Activities1252910420.2%
16Median Teacher Salary62,0005561,136
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 Netcong School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Netcong, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 426 students and 27.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.5:1.[1]

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

For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students attend Lenape Valley Regional High School, which serves Netcong and the Sussex County communities of Stanhope and Byram Township.[4] As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 824 students and 61.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.4:1.[5]

History

The district formerly operated Netcong High School. The school, which opened in the 1900s, closed in 1974; the building became Netcong Elementary School.[6]

Judge Joseph Stamler of New Jersey Superior Court issued a decision in February 1970 in the case State Board of Education v. Board of Education of Netcong, New Jersey regarding a matter in which the district's school board had a policy providing for voluntary daily school readings at the start of the school day at the high school of prayers that had been published in the Congressional Record, as delivered by Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Attendance at these readings was voluntary, and the board said that they were intended as inspirational remarks, rather than prayer in the schools.[7] In his decision, Judge Stamler prohibited what he described as a "subterfuge [that] is degrading to all religions", arguing that by taking what were "beautiful prayers" and referring to them merely as "remarks", the school district was working to "peddle religion in a very cheap manner under an assumed name." The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously affirmed Stamler's decision and the United States Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the district's school board.[8]

School

Netcong Elementary School had an enrollment of 296 students as of the 2014-15 school year.[9] Netcong's school offers small class sizes that allow teachers to offer personalized attention not possible in larger schools.

Administration

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

  • Kathleen Walsh, Superintendent
  • Nicole Sylvester, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Netcong 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 December 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ Lenape Valley Regional High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 21, 2017. "Lenape Valley Regional High School is a comprehensive, academic high school serving approximately 800 students in grades 9 through 12 from Byram Township and Stanhope Borough in Sussex County and from Netcong Borough in Morris County."
  5. ↑ School data for Lenape Valley Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ January 2009 (Calendar). Netcong Borough. Accessed December 15, 2016.
  7. ↑ State Bd. of Ed. v. Bd. Of Ed. Of Netcong, NJ, Justia, decided February 9, 1970. Accessed January 24, 2018. "The implementation of the resolution has occurred in the following way: At 7:55 A.M. in the Netcong High School gymnasium, immediately prior to the formal opening of school, students who wish to join in the exercise either sit or stand in the bleachers. A student volunteer reader, assigned by the principal on a first come, first serve basis, then comes forward and reads the 'remarks' (so described by defendants) of the chaplain from the Congressional Record, giving the date, volume, number and body whose proceedings are being read."
  8. ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang. "Joseph Howard Stamler, 86, Influential New Jersey Judge", The New York Times, October 23, 1998. Accessed January 24, 2018. "His most celebrated case involved the school board of Netcong, N.J., which had a policy providing for daily school readings of prayers published regularly in the Congressional Record, as delivered by Congressional chaplains at the start of the day. Attendance at these readings was voluntary, and the board said they were inspirational remarks, rather than prayer in the schools, but Judge Stamler nevertheless ordered the practice stopped in 1970."
  9. ↑ School Data for the Netcong Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ Administration, Netcong School District. Accessed July 21, 2017.
  11. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Morris County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.

Coordinates: 40°53′59″N 74°41′57″W / 40.899821°N 74.699237°W / 40.899821; -74.699237

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