Washington Township School District (Warren County, New Jersey)

Washington Township School District
16 Castle Street
Washington, NJ 07882
District information
Grades PreK-6
Superintendent Keith Neuhs
Business administrator Jean Flynn
Schools 2
Students and staff
Enrollment 521 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty 52.1 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio 10.0:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group GH
Website http://www.washtwpsd.org/
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-6
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$16,49822$18,891-12.7%
1Budgetary Cost13,6672113,6490.1%
2Classroom Instruction8,108188,366-3.1%
6Support Services2,704452,16125.1%
8Administrative Cost1,662331,46713.3%
10Operations & Maintenance1,10751,552-28.7%
13Extracurricular Activities3922390.0%
16Median Teacher Salary68,7675657,437
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=59

The Washington Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade from Washington 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 521 students and 52.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.0:1.[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]

Public school students in seventh through twelfth grades attend the schools of the Warren Hills Regional School District, which also serves students from the municipalities of Franklin Township, Mansfield Township and Washington Borough, along with those from Oxford Township who attend for grades 9-12 only.[4][5] Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[6]) are Warren Hills Regional Middle School[7] (grades 7 and 8; 663 students) located in Washington Borough and Warren Hills Regional High School[8] (grades 9 - 12; 1,276 students) located in Washington Township.[9][10]

Schools

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

  • Port Colden School[14] (190 students in grades 1-3)
    • Michael Neu, Principal
  • Brass Castle School[15] (327 students in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and grades 4-6)
    • Jessica L. Garcia, Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[16][17]

  • Keith Neuhs, Superintendent
  • Jean Flynn, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for Washington 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 September 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ Warren Hills Regional School District 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 19, 2016. "At Warren Hills Regional, we provide our students with a strong academic foundation. From the receiving districts of Franklin Township, Mansfield Township, Oxford (high school tuition students), Washington Borough and Washington Township, students progress along the academic continuum led by a faculty committed to planning and implementing a variety of instructional strategies and activities that facilitate the preparation of our students for the challenge of mastering the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards and the Common Core State Standards."
  5. ↑ Our History, Warren Hills Regional School District. Accessed January 5, 2017. "The Warren Hills Regional School District services students from Franklin Township, Mansfield Township, Washington Borough and Washington Township. Oxford Township currently sends its high school students to the Warren Hills Regional High School on a tuition basis."
  6. ↑ Warren Hills Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ Warren Hills Regional Middle School, Warren Hills Regional School District. Accessed January 5, 2017.
  8. ↑ Warren Hills Regional High School, Warren Hills Regional School District. Accessed January 5, 2017.
  9. ↑ Municipal Guide to Public School Districts, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed January 5, 2017.
  10. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Warren Hills Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ School Data for the Washington Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  12. ↑ Our Schools, Washington Township School District. Accessed February 27, 2017.
  13. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Washington Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  14. ↑ Port Colden School, Washington Township School District. Accessed February 27, 2017.
  15. ↑ Brass Castle School, Washington Township School District. Accessed February 27, 2017.
  16. ↑ Board of Education, Washington Township School District. Accessed February 27, 2017.
  17. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Warren County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.

Coordinates: 40°45′32″N 75°00′20″W / 40.758905°N 75.005473°W / 40.758905; -75.005473

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