Woodlynne School District

The Woodlynne School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Woodlynne, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.

Woodlynne School District
131 Elm Avenue
Woodlynne, NJ 08107
District information
GradesPreK-8
SuperintendentDr. Jack McCulley (interim)
Business administratorGreg Gontowski
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment570 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty33.0 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio17.3:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupB
Websitehttp://www.woodlynne.k12.nj.us
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-8
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$15,8629$18,891−16.0%
1Budgetary Cost10,504214,159−25.8%
2Classroom Instruction6,50738,659−24.9%
6Support Services1,35742,167−37.4%
8Administrative Cost1,652321,5476.8%
10Operations & Maintenance93741,612−41.9%
13Extracurricular Activities5112104−51.0%
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 570 students and 33.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.3:1.[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]

Students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Collingswood High School in neighboring Collingswood as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Collingswood Public Schools, together with students from Oaklyn, New Jersey.[4][5] As of the 2016-17 school year, the school had an enrollment of 702 students and 63.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.0:1.[6]

School

Woodlynne Elementary School serves students in grades PreK-8.[7] The school had an enrollment of 382 students in the 2014-15 school year.[8]

Administration

The Superintendent/Principal is Jackie Walters[9] and the Business Administrator is Greg Gontowski.[9][10]

References
  1. District information for Woodlynne 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 November 18, 2014.
  4. Staff. "Collingswood High School", South Jersey magazine. Accessed November 18, 2014. "Collingswood High School serves about 850 students in grades nine through twelve from the Collingswood, Oaklyn, and Woodlynne school districts."
  5. Giordano, Rita. "N.J. puts pressure on schools to share Collingswood, Oaklyn, and Woodlynne are just three districts being pushed to combine services - or more.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 11, 2009. Accessed November 18, 2014. "Collingswood, Oaklyn, and Woodlynne, she said, are reasonable candidates for administrative sharing. Oaklyn Superintendent Tommy Stringer is due to retire in December, and Woodlynne has an interim superintendent, Walter Rudder. Collingswood Superintendent Scott Oswald is established and well-regarded. Oaklyn and Woodlynne students attend Collingswood High School."
  6. School data for Collingswood High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 22, 2019.
  7. New Jersey School Directory for the Woodlynne School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  8. School Data for the Woodlynne School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  9. "SUPERINTENDENT / PRINCIPAL'S PAGE". Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  10. New Jersey School Directory for Camden County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 12, 2020.

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