Pennsauken Public Schools
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1695 Hylton Road Pennsauken, NJ 08110 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grades | pre-K to 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Superintendent | Dr. Ronnie Tarchichi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Business administrator | Noreen Boston | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schools | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Enrollment | 5,402 (as of 2011-12)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty | 401.6 FTEs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Student-teacher ratio | 13.45:1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Pennsauken Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Pennsauken Township, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.
The Pennsauken Public Schools serve public school students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade. As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's 11 schools had an enrollment of 5,402 students and 401.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.45:1.[1]
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth-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]
Students from Merchantville had attended the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship that began in 1972, when the borough's high school was closed.[4] For years, the Merchantville district had sought to end the relationship with the Pennsauken district.[5] In the wake of a 2015 decision by the New Jersey Department of Education, Merchantville students began attending Haddon Heights High School starting in the 2015-16 school year, as part of a transition that will be fully in place in the 2018-19 school year.[6][7]
Governance
In 1996 the district stated that a parent survey on school uniforms showed 68% of respondents favoring them.[8]
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[9]) are:[10][11]
- Preschool
Baldwin Early Childhood Learning Center[12] for PreK (103 students)
- Diane Joyce, Principal
- Elementary schools
- Burling Elementary School[13] (K-4; 125)
- Rosalyn Lawrence, Principal
- Carson Elementary School[14] (PreK-4; 355)
- Diane Joyce, Principal
- Delair Elementary School[15] (K-4; 418)
- Rosalyn Lawrence, Principal
- George B. Fine Elementary School[16] (PreK-4; 316)
- Tanya Harmon, Principal
- Benjamin Franklin Elementary School[17] (K-4; 437)
- Landrus Lewis, Principal
- Longfellow Elementary School[18] (K-4; 258)
- Landrus Lewis, Principal
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School[19] (K-4; 179)
- Tanya Harmon, Principal
- Middle schools
- Pennsauken Intermediate School[20] (5&6; 819)
- Chantell Green, Principal
- Howard M. Phifer Middle School[21] (7&8; 819)
- Thomas Honeyman, Principal
- High school
- Pennsauken High School[22] (9-12; 1,573)
- Gregory Munford, Principal
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[23][24]
- Dr. James Chapman, Interim Superintendent
- John Deserable, Interim Business Administrator / Board Secretary
References
- 1 2 District information for Pennsauken Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
- ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Florio, Gwen. "LOOKING BEYOND THE SCHOOL DECISION TIME TO MAKE UP, OFFICIALS SAY, AFTER A DECADE OF FUSSING.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 21, 1992. Accessed July 10, 2008. "Ever since its own high school closed in 1972, the Borough of Merchantville has been sending its public school students to Pennsauken High School."
- ↑ "Expert report on the Termination of the Sending-receiving Agreement Between the Merchantville School District and the Pennsauken Public Schools", Merchantville School District, March 2013. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Merchantville School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 1, 2016. "In the Spring of 2015, Merchantville School won a ruling to start a send/receive relationship with Haddon Heights. We continue to work closely with Haddon Heights High School to ensure that our students are well prepared to meet their expectations. We will continue to phase in one grade level at a time into Haddon Heights High School until all high school students are enrolled for the 2018-2019 school year."
- ↑ Romalino, Carly Q. "Merchantville students head to Haddon Heights", Courier-Post, April 14, 2015. Accessed June 1, 2016. "An administrative law judge in March ruled in favor of Merchantville's request to end its student send-receive agreement with Pennsauken High School.... Hespe's signature, issued Friday, severs the relationship and allows for Merchantville to establish a five-year sending-receiving agreement with Haddon Heights School District."
- ↑ Coulombis, Angela. "Survey Finds Pennsauken Parents Favor Mandatory School Uniforms Sixty-eight Percent Of Households With Elementary School Students Approved." (Archive). Philadelphia Inquirer. October 11, 1996. Retrieved on November 29, 2015.
- ↑ School Data for the Pennsauken Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Schools, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Pennsauken Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Baldwin Early Childhood Learning Center, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Burling Elementary School, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Carson Elementary School, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Delair Elementary School, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ George B. Fine Elementary School, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Longfellow Elementary School, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Pennsauken Intermediate School, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Howard M. Phifer Middle School, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Pennsauken High School, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ Administration, Pennsauken Public Schools. Accessed December 14, 2014.
- ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Camden County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 14, 2014.
External links
- Pennsauken Public Schools
- Pennsauken Public Schools's 2014–15 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- School Data for the Pennsauken Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
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