- Mullica Township Schools
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Mullica Township Schools Superintendent: Dr. Brenda Harring-Marro Business Administrator: Lourdes LaGuardia Address: 500 Elwood Road
Elwood, NJ 08217Grade Range: PK-8 School facilities: 2 Enrollment: 709 (as of 2009-10)[1] Faculty (in FTEs): 60 Student–teacher ratio: 11.82 Web site: http://www.mullica.k12.nj.us Ind. Per Pupil District
SpendingRank
(*)PK-8
Average%± vs.
Average1 Comparative Cost $11,201 12 $12,420 -9.8% 2 Classroom Instruction 7,313 25 7,588 -3.6% 6 Support Services 1,204 6 1,771 -32.0% 8 Administrative Cost 1,277 8 1,411 -9.5% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,330 25 1,462 -9.0% 13 Extracurricular Activities 61 9 97 -37.1% 16 Median Teacher Salary 63,205 55 54,453 Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2]
*Of PK-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64The Mullica Township Schools are a community public school district that serves students in Pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from Mullica Township, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.
The Mullica Township Board of Education voted in November 2009 to close the Hilda E. Frame School, which served pre-kindergarten students. The reasons cited included declining enrollment which allowed the students which were at Frame to attend the regular elementary school facility.[3]
Since the 2007-08 school year, as part of an agreement with the Washington Township School District, Green bank Elementary School receives additional teaching support from the Mullica district and shares its superintendent and business administrator. Starting in the 2010-11 school year, Washington Township students in grades six through eight attend Mullica Township Middle School.[4][5]
As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 709 students and 60 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.82.[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.[6]
Students in grades 9 -10 attend Cedar Creek High School and students in grades 11 - 12 attend Oakcrest High School, located in Hamilton Township, both of which serves students from Egg Harbor City, Hamilton Township, Mullica Township, the City of Port Republic and Washington Township (in Burlington County).[7] 2,108 students attend the school. The current High School is part of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District, a regional public high school district serving approximately 3,700 from the constituent districts of Egg Harbor City, Galloway Township, Hamilton Township and Mullica Township, together with the districts of Port Republic and Washington Township which participate as part of sending/receiving relationships.[8]
In a referendum held on September 25, 2007, by a 3,176 - 1,719 margin, voters approved a plan to construct a third high school in the district, to be located in Egg Harbor City. The new school, Cedar Creek High School, would alleviate overcrowding in the two existing schools and serve students from Egg Harbor City and Mullica Township.[9] Cedar Creek High School opened for the 2010-11 school year.
Contents
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[10]) are
- Pre-School
- Hilda E. Frame Pre-School with 38 students in grade pre-K (closed at the end of the 2009-2010 school year)
- Elementary School
- Mullica Township Elementary School with 365 students in grades PreK - 4
- Kevin Dugan, Principal
- Middle School
- Mullica Township Middle School with 302 students in grades 5 - 8
- Matthew Mazzoni, Principal
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[11]
- Dr. Brenda Harring-Marro - Superintendent of Schools
- Lourdes LaGuardia - Business Administrator / Board Secretary
References
- ^ a b District information for the Mullica Township Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 10, 2011.
- ^ Comparative Spending Guide March 2009, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 28, 2009.
- ^ Mullica Township School Newsletter, February 2010. Accessed February 24, 2011.
- ^ Procida, Lee. "Washington Township's Green Bank Elementary School fights to survive funding cut", The Press of Atlantic City, November 20, 2010. Accessed July 10, 2011. "Washington Township currently shares its superintendent, Brenda Harring-Marro, as well as several teachers and staff, with Mullica. This year, the 23 students from sixth, seventh and eighth grades started going to Mullica’s middle school, six miles south across the Mullica River."
- ^ Shared Services, Mullica Township School District. Accessed July 10, 2011. "Mullica Township School District has had a Shared Service Agreement with Washington Twp. (Green Bank) School District since the 2007-2008 school year. Currently, the Mullica Township provides Washington Township. with Administrative, Child Study Support, Technology, and Custodial Support Services. This year (2010-2011) we have embarked on a new level of shared services in that the sixth thru eighth (6-8) grade students from Green Bank attend Mullica's middle school."
- ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 27, 2009.
- ^ Oakcrest High School 2007 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 3, 2008. "Oakcrest is a comprehensive high school located in Mays Landing that provides a secondary school education to four elementary districts including Greenbank, Hamilton Township, Mullica Township, and Port Republic."
- ^ Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District 2007 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 2, 2008. "The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District serves the communities of Galloway Township, Hamilton Township, Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township and participates in receiving relationships with Port Republic and Washington Township."
- ^ Referendum, Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District. Accessed May 4, 2008.
- ^ Mullica Township Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 10, 2011.
- ^ District Administrators, Mullica Township Schools. Accessed July 10, 2011.
External links
- Mullica Township Schools
- Mullica Township Schools's 2009–10 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Mullica Township Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
- Oakcrest High School website
- Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District
Coordinates: 39°34′35″N 74°42′57″W / 39.576328°N 74.715942°W
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