New Hanover Township School District

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New Hanover Township School District
Address
122 Fort Dix Street
Wrightstown
, Burlington County , New Jersey , 08562
United States
Coordinates 40°02′16″N74°37′05″W / 40.037796°N 74.618045°W / 40.037796; -74.618045
District information
Grades PreK to 8
SuperintendentScott Larkin
Business administratorBernard Biesiada
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment197 (as of 2023–24) [1]
Faculty19.4 FTEs [1]
Student–teacher ratio10.2:1 [1]
Other information
District Factor Group B
Website www.newhanover.k12.nj.us
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-8
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$21,27648$18,89112.6%
1Budgetary Cost20,5386314,15945.1%
2Classroom Instruction12,598668,65945.5%
6Support Services3,647592,16768.3%
8Administrative Cost1,751451,54713.2%
10Operations & Maintenance2,241541,61239.0%
13Extracurricular Activities1754410468.3%
16Median Teacher Salary61,3835261,136
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 New Hanover Township School District is a consolidated public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from non-military portions of New Hanover Township (including its Cookstown section) and Wrightstown, two communities in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Contents

As of the 2023–24 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 197 students and 19.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.2:1. [1]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students from both New Hanover Township and Wrightstown attend Bordentown Regional High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Bordentown Regional School District, a regional K-12 school district that serves students from Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro Borough. [7] [8] [9] [10] As of the 2023–24 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 762 students and 55.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.7:1. [11]

History

In the 2016-17 school year, the district had the 40th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state. [12]

The district had been 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. [13]

Attendance boundary

The district only includes portions of the township not on the property of Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst. [14] Students living on the base have choices of three school districts, none of them being New Hanover schools. [15]

School

New Hanover Township School had an enrollment of 186 students in grades PreK–8 as of the 2023–24 school year. [16]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are: [17] [18]

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of seven members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district. [19] [20] [21]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 District information for New Hanover Township, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 2024.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ New Hanover Township School District 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 14, 2020. "Built in 1938 with funding from the Public Works Administration, the New Hanover Township School currently serves the residents of Wrightstown and Cookstown as a vibrant, growing community of diverse learners spanning grades PK through 8."
  4. ↑ Public Schools Directory 2023–2024, Burlington County, New Jersey. Accessed March 1, 2024.
  5. ↑ School Performance Reports for the New Hanover Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.
  6. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the New Hanover Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  7. ↑ District Information, Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed February 5, 2025. "Our district is comprised of the Township of Bordentown, the City of Bordentown and the Borough of Fieldsboro. New Hanover Township sends students on a tuition basis grades 9-12."
  8. ↑ Bordentown Regional School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 21, 2017. "Bordentown Regional School District is a vibrant learning community, proudly serving the communities of Fieldsboro, Bordentown City and Bordentown Township.... In addition to the three aforementioned communities, Bordentown Regional High School also welcomes students from New Hanover into its ninth-twelfth grade population."
  9. ↑ Staff. "Regional School Districts", Burlington County Times , April 26, 2015. Accessed February 5, 2025. "Bordentown Regional - Serves: Bordentown City, Bordentown Township, Fieldsboro, New Hanover"
  10. ↑ Zimmaro, Mark. "Figures suggest deficit in New Hanover send-receive school proposal" Archived 2011-12-04 at the Wayback Machine , Burlington County Times , December 4, 2011. Accessed December 17, 2011. "The idea of sending the district’s sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to the Bordentown Regional Middle School on a tuition basis surfaced last year, but the school board shot down the proposal by a 4-3 vote.... The district has been considering sending 51 middle school students to Bordentown next year, in a similar agreement the districts have with the high school students. Bordentown Regional High School receives New Hanover and Wrightstown students in a 60-year-old agreement."
  11. ↑ School data for Bordentown Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 2024.
  12. ↑ Guion, Payton. "These 43 N.J. school districts have fewer than 200 students", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 2017. Accessed January 30, 2020. "Based on data from the state Department of Education from the last school year and the Census Bureau, NJ Advance Media made a list of the smallest of the small school districts in the state, excluding charter schools and specialty institutions.... 40. New Hanover Township (tie) - Enrollment: 190; Grades: Pre-K-8; County: Burlington"
  13. ↑ District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 1, 2024.
  14. ↑ 2020 Census - School District Reference Map: Burlington County, NJ, United States Census Bureau. Accessed February 5, 2025. "11250 New Hanover Township School District"
  15. ↑ Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Education, Military One Source. Accessed February 5, 2025. "There are no DoDEA schools on Joint Base McGuire/Dix/Lakehurst. School age children living on McGuire and Dix housing attend North Hanover, Northern Burlington Regional and Pemberton Township school districts." Note that this is a .mil site.
  16. ↑ School Data for the New Hanover Township School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 2024.
  17. ↑ Administration Staff, New Hanover Township School District. Accessed February 5, 2025.
  18. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Burlington County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  19. ↑ New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election, New Jersey Department of Education, updated February 16, 2018. Accessed January 26, 2020.
  20. ↑ Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the New Hanover Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2023. Accessed February 5, 2025. The district receives students from the Borough of Wrightstown and the Township of New Hanover. Except for students who have special needs requiring outside services, students attend the school in-district through the 8th grade. High School students (grade 9 to 12) attend Bordentown Regional High School via a long-standing send-receive relationship, or they can choose to attend the County Vocational School District.... The Board of Education is comprised of seven members.... New Hanover Township School District Board of Education is a Type II district located in the County of Burlington, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the District functions independently through a Board of Education (Board). The Board is comprised of nine[ sic ] members appointed[ sic ] to three-year terms. The District provides a full range of educational services appropriate to grade levels Pre-K through 8." See "Roster of Officials" on page 20, which correctly lists seven elected members.
  21. ↑ Board of Education, New Hanover Township School District. Accessed February 5, 2025.
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