Riverton School District

Riverton School District
600 Fifth Street
Riverton, NJ 08077
District information
Grades K-8
Superintendent Mary Ellen Eck
Business administrator Donna Gidjunis
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 356 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 24.7 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 14.4:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group GH
Website http://www.riverton.k12.nj.us
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-8
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$16,66914$18,891-11.8%
1Budgetary Cost12,4581214,159-12.0%
2Classroom Instruction7,412118,659-14.4%
6Support Services1,889202,167-12.8%
8Administrative Cost1,486211,547-3.9%
10Operations & Maintenance1,440191,612-10.7%
13Extracurricular Activities23150104122.1%
16Median Teacher Salary59,2874161,136
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 Riverton School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Riverton in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 356 students and 24.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.4:1.[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]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students in public school attend Palmyra High School in Palmyra, together with students from Beverly, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Palmyra Public Schools.[4][5] As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 421 students and 40.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.5:1.[6] In the early 1990s, the district had considered options to ends its sending relationship with Palmyra.[7]

School

Riverton Elementary School served 278 students as of the 2014-15 school year.[8]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[9][10]

  • Mary Ellen Eck, Superintendent
  • Donna Gidjunis, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Riverton 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. ↑ Administration, Palmyra Public Schools. Accessed January 11, 20174. "Palmyra Public Schools offers a wide range of educational programs for the residents of Palmyra, Beverly City, and Riverton, New Jersey. These programs include a preschool handicapped program at Delaware Avenue Elementary School, a K-6 elementary program at Charles Street Elementary School, and a 7-12 program at Palmyra High School."
  5. ↑ High School Sending Districts, Burlington County Library System, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 27, 2009. Accessed January 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ School data for Palmyra High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ Hefler, Jan. "Riverton Considers Breaking Ties With Palmyra Schools", The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 17, 1990, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 2, 2015. Accessed January 12, 2017. "Riverton voters will be asked to decide in an April referendum whether they want to spend money on a study that could be the first step in breaking ties between the Riverton and Palmyra School Districts.... Riverton, which has only an elementary school program, sends 51 children to neighboring Palmyra High School, which has 350 students."
  8. ↑ School Data for the Riverton School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ RIVERTON BOARD OF EDUCATION BOARD MEETING FACT SHEET, Riverton School District. Accessed January 12, 2017.
  10. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Burlington County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.

Coordinates: 40°00′41″N 75°00′45″W / 40.01138°N 75.012445°W / 40.01138; -75.012445

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