Neptune Township Schools

Neptune Township Schools
3301B Route 66 Neptune, NJ 07753
District information
Grades	pre-K to 12
Superintendent	Dr. Tami Crader
Business administrator	Peter Leonard
Schools	8
Affiliation(s)	Former Abbott district
Students and staff
Enrollment	4,376 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty	366.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio	11.96:1
Other information
District Factor Group	CD
Website	www.neptune.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $22,381 90 $18,891 18.5% 1 Budgetary Cost 15,458 68 14,783 4.6% 2 Classroom Instruction 8,506 43 8,763 -2.9% 6 Support Services 2,125 43 2,392 -11.2% 8 Administrative Cost 1,637 81 1,485 10.2% 10 Operations & Maintenance 2,764 99 1,783 55.0% 13 Extracurricular Activities 414 101 268 54.5% 16 Median Teacher Salary 53,852 5 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-12 districts with more than 3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=103

The Neptune Township Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Neptune Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide,^[3] which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.^[4][5]

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's eight schools had an enrollment of 4,376 students and 366.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.96:1.^[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.^[6]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[7]) are:^[8]

Pre-school

• Early Childhood Center^[9] (178 students in pre-K)

Elementary schools (PreK-5)

• Gables School^[10] (335),
• Green Grove School^[11] (385),
• Midtown Community School^[12] (441),
• Shark River Hills School^[13] (409),
• Summerfield School^[14] (449)

Middle school (6-8)

• Neptune Middle School^[15] (862 in grades 7 and 8)

High school (9-12)

• Neptune High School^[16] (1,317 in grades 9-12)

Administration

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

• Dr. Tami Crader, Superintendent of Schools
• Bertha Williams-Pullen, Assistant Superintendent^[19]
• Matthew Gristina, Assistant Superintendent
• Peter J. Leonard, Business Administrator / Board Secretary^[20]

Former Superintendent of Schools David A. Mooij^[21] died on June 21, 2015, just ten days prior to his announced retirement.^[22]

References

1. District information for Neptune Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 11, 2014.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. Abbott School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 15, 2016.
4. What are SDA Districts?, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed August 15, 2012. "SDA Districts are 31 special-needs school districts throughout New Jersey. They were formerly known as Abbott Districts, based on the Abbott v. Burke case in which the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the State must provide 100 percent funding for all school renovation and construction projects in special-needs school districts.... The districts were renamed after the elimination of the Abbott designation through passage of the state's new School Funding Formula in January 2008."
5. SDA Districts, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed August 15, 2012.
6. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 11, 2014.
7. School Data for the Neptune Township Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 1, 2014.
8. New Jersey School Directory for the Neptune Township Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 11, 2014.
9. Early Childhood Center, Neptune Township Schools. Accessed September 11, 2014.
10. Gables School, Neptune Township Schools. Accessed September 11, 2014.
11. Green Grove School, Neptune Township Schools. Accessed September 11, 2014.
12. Midtown Community School, Neptune Township Schools. Accessed September 11, 2014.
13. Shark River Hills School, Neptune Township Schools. Accessed September 11, 2014.
14. Summerfield School, Neptune Township Schools. Accessed September 11, 2014.
15. Neptune Middle School, Neptune Township Schools. Accessed September 11, 2014.
16. Neptune High School, Neptune Township Schools. Accessed September 11, 2014.
17. District Contact List, Neptune Township School District. Accessed September 11, 2014.
18. New Jersey School Directory for Monmouth County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 11, 2014.
19. Assistant Superintendents, Neptune Township School District. Accessed July 2, 2015.
20. Business Administrator, Neptune Township School District. Accessed September 11, 2014.
21. Administration, Neptune Township School District. Accessed September 11, 2014.
22. Home Page: In Memoriam, Neptune Township School District. Accessed July 2, 2015.

External links

• Neptune Township Schools
• Neptune Township Schools's 2014–15 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Neptune Township Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

Coordinates: 40°13′41″N 74°04′06″W / 40.228164°N 74.06833°W