Prospect Park School District

Prospect Park School District
290 North 8th Street
Prospect Park, NJ 07508
District information
Grades K-8
Superintendent Allison Angermeyer
Business administrator Steven Gardberg
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 883 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 69.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 12.80:1
Other information
District Factor Group B
Website www.prospectparknj.com
Ind. Per pupil District
spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$15,23713$18,891-19.3%
1Budgetary Cost11,9041414,159-15.9%
2Classroom Instruction7,662188,659-11.5%
6Support Services1,545122,167-28.7%
8Administrative Cost1,511361,547-2.3%
10Operations & Maintenance1,12171,612-30.5%
13Extracurricular Activities41104-96.2%
16Median Teacher Salary61,8504861,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with more than 750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=84

The Prospect Park School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from Prospect Park, in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The school had to expand multiple times due to its growing student body.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 883 students and 69.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.80:1.[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, public school students attend Manchester Regional High School, which also serves students from Haledon and North Haledon.[4] The school is located in Haledon. The district participates in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, which allows non-resident students to attend the district's schools without cost to their parents, with tuition paid by the state. Available lots are announced annually by grade.[5] As of the 2013-14 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 911 students and 62.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.5:1.[6]

As of the 2014-15 school year, Prospect Park's share of funding for the Manchester had more than doubled in the previous decade, with property taxes for the regional district rising nearly $700 on the average home in the previous two years after a 2013 change by the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education to the district's funding formula that allocated costs with half based on enrollment and half based on valuation, a formula that benefitted North Haledon. Haledon and Prospect Park had argued that property valuation should be the basis for assessing district taxes, while North Haledon, with the largest property valuation, had argued that funding should be based exclusively on enrollment.[7]

School

Prospect Park Elementary School had an enrollment of 883 students as of the 201-12 school year.[8] The school population was made up of Hispanic (54%), White (22%), Black (22%), and Other (2%).[9]

Prospect Park School #1 is the only school in the nation to observe Circassian Day, which falls on May 21.

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[10][11][12]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Prospect Park School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 8, 2014.
  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. ↑ Passaic County-Manchester Regional High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 30, 2016. "Manchester Regional High School (MRHS) serves 903 students from the Passaic County boroughs of Haledon, North Haledon and Prospect Park. It is also one of only two Interdistrict Public Choice Schools in the county providing a quality college preparatory curriculum to students outside the district who want to avail themselves of this program. One hundred four students from Essex, Bergen and Passaic Counties are enrolled at the school."
  5. ↑ Interdistrict Public School Choice: Approved Choice Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 5, 2008.
  6. ↑ School Data for Passaic County-Manchester Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed May 30, 2016.
  7. ↑ Park, Minjae. "Prospect Park residents appeal to lawmakers for more school aid for Manchester Regional", The Record (Bergen County), March 18, 2015. Accessed March 22, 2015. "At the court's order, the state commissioner of education created a new funding formula based one-third on enrollment and two-thirds on property values. North Haledon appealed and an administrative law judge in 2011 ordered the commissioner to create a new formula, recommending it be based two-thirds on enrollment and one-third on property values. Instead, Cerf in 2003 divided the burden 50-50 between enrollment and tax base, satisfying none of the boroughs."
  8. ↑ School Data for the Prospect Park Elementary School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 31, 2013.
  9. ↑ Welcome to Our School, Prospect Park School District. Accessed June 5, 2008.
  10. 1 2 3 Administration, Prospect Park School District. Accessed December 8, 2014.
  11. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Passaic County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 8, 2014.
  12. ↑ Passaic County 2014-15 Public School Directory, Passaic County, New Jersey. Accessed January 27, 2015.

Coordinates: 40°55′59″N 74°10′21″W / 40.933179°N 74.172362°W / 40.933179; -74.172362

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