Oxford Township School District

Oxford Township School District
Address
17 Kent Street Oxford, NJ 07863 United States
Coordinates	40°48′23″N74°59′07″W / 40.806363°N 74.985209°W / 40.806363; -74.985209 Coordinates: 40°48′23″N74°59′07″W / 40.806363°N 74.985209°W / 40.806363; -74.985209
District information
Grades	PreK-8
Superintendent	Robert Magnuson
Business administrator	Nancy DeRiso
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	275 (as of 2018–19) [1]
Faculty	30.0 FTEs [1]
Student–teacher ratio	9.2:1 [1]
Other information
District Factor Group	DE
Website	District web site
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-8 average  %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $16,812 18 $18,891 −11.0% 1 Budgetary Cost 13,804 19 14,159 −2.5% 2 Classroom Instruction 6,368 4 8,659 −26.5% 6 Support Services 4,611 66 2,167 112.8% 8 Administrative Cost 1,548 27 1,547 0.1% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,231 10 1,612 −23.6% 13 Extracurricular Activities 46 17 104 −55.8% 16 Median Teacher Salary 49,153 6 61,136 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 Oxford Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Oxford Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. ^[3]

As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 275 students and 30.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.2:1. ^[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. ^[4]

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, Washington Borough and Washington Township, along with those from Oxford who attend for grades 9-12 only on a tuition basis as part of a sending/receiving relationship. ^{[5] [6]} Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics ^[7] ) are Warren Hills Regional Middle School ^[8] with 542 students in grades 7 and 8 (located in Washington Borough) and Warren Hills Regional High School ^[9] with 1,205 students in grades 9 - 12 (located in Washington Township). ^[10]

School

Oxford Central School had an enrollment of 274 students in grades PreK-8 in the 2018–19 school year. ^[11]

Despite the small size of the school, it has won the New Jersey state archery championship in the Middle School Division every year from 2007 to 2015. ^[12]

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are: ^{[13] [14]}

• Robert Magnuson, chief school administrator
• Nancy DeRiso, business administrator and board secretary ^[15]

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 day-to-day operation of the district. ^{[16] [17] [18]}

References

1. District information for Oxford Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. Warren County 2022-2023 Public School Directory, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed December 27, 2022.
4. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 8, 2014.
5. Warren Hills Regional School District 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 10, 2020. "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."
6. Oxford Township School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 10, 2020. "Currently we have approximately 450 students in our district. Three hundred and ten Pre-School - Eighth grade students attend the Oxford Central School, and the remaining students attend Warren Hills Regional High School, Warren County Vocational-Technical School and schools outside of our district."
7. School Data for the Warren Hills Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
8. Home Page, Warren Hills Regional Middle School. Accessed March 31, 2020.
9. Home Page, Warren Hills Regional High School. March 31, 2020.
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 Oxford Township School District. National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
12. Staff. "Oxford Middle School wins 2015 NASP NJ Archery Championship.", Warren Reporter , March 22, 2015. Accessed August 11, 2015. "Not many schools can lay claim to nine consecutive state championships in any sport, but the 2015 archery team at Oxford Middle School finished the state shoot as the number one Middle School Division team in New Jersey."
13. Administration, Oxford Township School District. Accessed June 10, 2020.
14. New Jersey School Directory for Warren County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
15. Board of Education - Members, Oxford Township School District. Accessed February 23, 2017.
16. 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.
17. Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the Oxford Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2019. Accessed June 10, 2020. "The Oxford Township School District is a Type II district located in the County of Warren, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the School District functions independently through a Board of Education. The board is comprised of five[ sic ] members elected to three-year terms. The purpose of the district is to educate students in grades K-8."
18. Board of Education - Members, Oxford Township School District. Accessed June 10, 2020.

External links

• Oxford Township School District
• School Performance Reports for the Oxford Township School District , New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Oxford Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics
• Warren Hills Regional School District