Phillipsburg School District

Phillipsburg School District
445 Marshall Street Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
District information
Grades	K-12
Superintendent	George M. Chando
Business administrator	Staci L. Horne
Schools	7
Affiliation(s)	Former Abbott district
Students and staff
Enrollment	3,667 (as of 2012-13)[1]
Faculty	329.3 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio	11.13:1
Other information
District Factor Group	B
Website	www.pburgsd.net
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $20,436 77 $18,891 8.2% 1 Budgetary Cost 16,436 84 14,783 11.2% 2 Classroom Instruction 9,980 90 8,763 13.9% 6 Support Services 2,586 76 2,392 8.1% 8 Administrative Cost 1,671 85 1,485 12.5% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,822 69 1,783 2.2% 13 Extracurricular Activities 350 90 268 30.6% 16 Median Teacher Salary 68,561 74 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 Phillipsburg School District is a comprehensive public school district in Phillipsburg, in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students in Pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from a population of 16,000 people and an area of 3.2 square miles (8.3 km²) in Phillipsburg and other neighboring communities along the Delaware River.^[3] The district is one of 31 Abbott districts statewide,^[4] 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.^[5][6]

As of the 2012-13 school year, the district's seven schools had an enrollment of 3,667 students and 329.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.13:1.^[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.^[7]

The district's high school serves students from the Town of Phillipsburg and from five sending communities at the secondary level: Alpha, Bloomsbury (in Hunterdon County), Greenwich Township, Lopatcong Township and Pohatcong Township, as part of sending/receiving relationships with the respective school districts.^[3][8][9]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2012-13 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[10]) are:^[11]

Early childhood

• Early Childhood Learning Center^[12] (Grades PreK-K, 555 students)

Elementary schools

• Barber School^[13] (1&2, 204)
• Freeman School^[14] (1&2, 214)
• Andover-Morris School^[15] (3-5, 245)
• Green Street School^[16] (3-5, 334)

Middle school

• Phillipsburg Middle School^[17] (6-8, 577)

High schools

• Phillipsburg High School^[18] (9-12, 1,588). The Phillipsburg High School Stateliners have an athletic rivalry with neighboring Easton, Pennsylvania's Easton Area High School, which celebrated its 100th anniversary game on Thanksgiving Day 2006.^[19] In 2009, the 1993 teams from the Easton P-Burg Game met again for the Gatorade REPLAY Game to resolve the game, which ended in a 7-7 tie, with more than 13,000 fans watching as Phillipsburg won by a score of 27-12.^[20]
• Phillipsburg Alternative Secondary High School, which serves at-risk students in a more relaxed environment with small class sizes and individualized instruction that is designed to help students succeed^[21] (6-12)

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[22][23]

• George M. Chando, Superintendent
• William A. Bauer, Business Administrator/Board Secretary

References

1. District information for Phillipsburg School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 2, 2015.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. About PSD, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed June 1, 2016. "The district serves students from the Town of Phillipsburg and five sending communities at the secondary level: Alpha, Bloomsbury, Greenwich, Lopatcong and Pohatcong Townships."
4. Abbott School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 15, 2016.
5. What are SDA Districts?, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed August 17, 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."
6. SDA Districts, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed August 17, 2012.
7. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 2, 2015.
8. Phillipsburg High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 1, 2016. "At the secondary level, the district serves not only students from the town of Phillipsburg which makes up 37.6% of the high school population, but also students from the surrounding boroughs of Alpha and Bloomsbury, as well as the townships of Greenwich, Lopatcong, and Pohatcong."
9. Municipal Guide to Public School Districts, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed June 1, 2016.
10. School Data for the Phillipsburg School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 2, 2015.
11. New Jersey School Directory for the Phillipsburg School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 2, 2015.
12. Early Childhood Learning Center, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed September 16, 2013.
13. Barber School, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed March 2, 2015.
14. Freeman School, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed March 2, 2015.
15. Andover-Morris School, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed March 2, 2015.
16. Green Street School, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed March 2, 2015.
17. Phillipsburg Middle School, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed March 2, 2015.
18. Phillipsburg High School, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed March 2, 2015
19. Patrick, Dick. "High school rivals are like family", USA Today, September 21, 2005. Accessed August 17, 2012. "Phillipsburg (N.J.)-Easton (Pa.): The game, played on Thanksgiving morning at Lafayette College in Easton, will celebrate 100 years in 2006."
20. Conover, Allan. "Phillipsburg beats Easton in Gatorade Replay football", Warren Reporter, April 29, 2009. Accessed August 17, 2012. "For almost three toasty hours earlier in the day, however, Wargo had been among the most prominent Phillipsburg football players in Lafayette College's Fisher Stadium and was a key performer in the Stateliners' 27-12 triumph over Easton as 13,350 sun-baked spectators looked on. Wargo, a tackle, was selected as the game's 'Outstanding Defensive Player,' an honor he never gave a thought to while helping the 'Exliners' win the rematch of the 1993 Thanksgiving Day battle which ended in a 7-7 stalemate."
21. Phillipsburg Alternative Secondary High School, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed March 2, 2015.
22. Central Office Administration and Staff Directory, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed March 2, 2015.
23. New Jersey School Directory for Warren County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 2, 2015.

External links

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

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