Waterford Township School District

Waterford Township School District
1106 Old White Horse Pike
Waterford, NJ 08089
District information
Grades K-6
Superintendent Jason Eitner
Business administrator Daniel J. Fox
Schools 3
Students and staff
Enrollment 875 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 71.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 12.32:1
Other information
District Factor Group DE
Website http://www.wtsd.org/
Ind. Per pupil District
spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-6
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$15,1568$18,891-19.8%
1Budgetary Cost14,0202613,6492.7%
2Classroom Instruction7,860148,366-6.0%
6Support Services2,912512,16134.8%
8Administrative Cost1,525261,4674.0%
10Operations & Maintenance1,594321,5522.7%
16Median Teacher Salary54,3781857,437
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 Waterford Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through sixth grade from Waterford Township, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 875 students and 71.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.32:1.[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 seventh through twelfth grades, public school students attend Hammonton Middle School and Hammonton High School, in Hammonton as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Hammonton Public Schools, alongside students from Folsom who attend for grades 9-12 as part of an agreement with the Folsom Borough School District.[4][5][6]

In the wake of the dissolution of the Lower Camden County Regional School District, the Hammonton board of education voted in 1999 to begin accepting an estimated 800 students from Waterford Township for grades 7-12 starting as soon as 2002, with the tuition paid by students from Waterford helping to lower overall costs to Hammonton taxpayers and the New Jersey Department of Education approved the agreement.[7][8]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[9]) are:[10][11]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[13][16]

In 1997 the district conducted a survey of 700 households on whether it should adopt school uniforms. 383 persons who responded indicated that they favored uniforms while 166 indicated opposition. At the time there were some members of the school board who formed a faction favoring school uniforms, while another faction opposed them.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Waterford Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 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 15, 2014.
  4. ↑ Hammonton Public Schools 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 5, 2016. "The Hammonton Public School System serves children from Hammonton, Waterford, and Folsom – as well as over 140 NJ Department of Education Choice students."
  5. ↑ Schools, Towns of Hammonton. Accessed June 6, 2016. "Residents from Waterford attend grades 7 through 12. Residents of Folsom and Collings Lakes attend the Hammonton High School in grades 9 through 12 at a brand-new high school on a 118-acre campus."
  6. ↑ Puko, Timothy. "Sending Towns Feeling Pinched by Hammonton", The Press of Atlantic City, March 13, 2007. Accessed June 6, 2016. "The two school districts that send students to Hammonton are disputing tuition adjustments that would allow Hammonton School District to avoid a tax hike this year but cause large tax hikes in the sending districts. The school budgets for Hammonton and its sending districts Waterford and Folsom could hang in limbo well past next month's school board elections, and Waterford and Folsom could be left with budget fights and massive cuts, sending district superintendents said."
  7. ↑ Arnold, Stephanie L. "Hammonton Board Decides To Accept Waterford Students More Money For An Improved Curriculum Is Expected Once The 800 Junior And Senior High Pupils Arrive.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 1999. Accessed December 15, 2014. "The school board has been mulling the issue since the Waterford Board of Education, in Camden County, decided in September that it wanted to send its 800 junior high and high school students to the Atlantic County school district. Last year, five of seven towns that make up the Lower Camden County Regional School District voted to dissolve it within three years, leaving each town responsible for educating its students."
  8. ↑ Board of Education of the Town of Hammonton, Atlantic County, petitioner, New Jersey Department of Education, January 4, 2000. Accessed December 15, 2014. "This matter arises from the pending dissolution of the Lower Camden County Regional School District No. 1 (LCCR). Petitioner, Hammonton BOE, has a proposed sending/receiving contract with Waterford, one of the constituent districts of the LCCR, to accept that district's students in grades 7-12....The Commissioner found that education law poses no impediment to Hammonton entering a sending/receiving relationship with Waterford pursuant to the parties' proposed agreement (N.J.S.A. 18A:38-11)."
  9. ↑ School Data for the Waterford Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  10. ↑ Schools, Waterford Township School District. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  11. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Waterford Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  12. ↑ Atco Elementary School, Waterford Township School District. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  13. 1 2 3 4 Administration, Waterford Township School District. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  14. ↑ Thomas Richards School, Waterford Township School District. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  15. ↑ Waterford Elementary School, Waterford Township School District. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  16. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Camden County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  17. ↑ Thevenot, Brian. "District-wide Uniform Policy The Rules Would Be Among The First Of Their Kind In New Jersey. But Serious Questions Remain." (Archive). Philadelphia Inquirer. June 11, 1997. Retrieved on November 29, 2015.

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