Rockaway Township Public Schools

Rockaway Township Public Schools
16 School Road
Hibernia, NJ 07842
District information
Grades K-8
Superintendent Dr. Greg McGann
Business administrator Donnamarie Palmiere
Schools 6
Students and staff
Enrollment 2,426 (as of 2012-13)[1]
Faculty 226.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 10.73:1
Other information
District Factor Group I
Website www.rocktwp.org
Ind. Per pupil District
spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$19,90775$18,8915.4%
1Budgetary Cost17,1598114,15921.2%
2Classroom Instruction9,883788,65914.1%
6Support Services3,109812,16743.5%
8Administrative Cost1,931771,54724.8%
10Operations & Maintenance2,219821,61237.7%
13Extracurricular Activities113104-89.4%
16Median Teacher Salary63,4875961,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with more than 750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=84

The Rockaway Township Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade in Rockaway Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2012-13 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 2,426 students and 226.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.731.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-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]

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend either Morris Hills High School (those living in the White Meadow Lake section and other southern portions of the township) or Morris Knolls High School (the remainder of the township). Morris Hills (located in Rockaway Borough, with 1,139 students as of 2012-13) also serves students from Wharton and some from Rockaway Borough (those mostly north of Route 46); Morris Knolls (located in Denville, with 1,644 students) serves all students from Denville and portions of Rockaway Borough (those mostly south of Route 46).[4][5] The The Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, a magnet high school program that is part of the Morris County Vocational School District is jointly operated on the Morris Hills campus.[6] The two high schools are part of the Morris Hills Regional High School District.[7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2012-13 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9][10]

Elementary schools (K-5)
Middle school (6-8)

Administration

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

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Rockaway Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ Program of Studies 2013-2014 - About Our School District, Morris Hills Regional District. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ School Data for the Morris Hills Regional High School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 6, 2015
  6. ↑ Home page, Morris Hills High School. Accessed March 6, 2015. "Morris Hills is home to the Academy of Mathematics, Science and Engineering, a partnership with Morris County School of Technology."
  7. ↑ Morris Hills Regional High School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 11, 2015. "Our schools' success is directly attributed to the support we receive from the residents of Denville, Rockaway Borough, Rockaway Township and Wharton - people who care about their children and who value education."
  8. ↑ School Data for the Rockaway Township Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  9. ↑ Schools, Rockaway Township Public Schools. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  10. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Rockaway Township Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  11. ↑ Birchwood Elementary School, Rockaway Township Public Schools. Accessed March 6, 20153.
  12. ↑ Catherine A. Dwyer Elementary School, Rockaway Township Public Schools. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  13. ↑ Katherine D. Malone Elementary School, Rockaway Township Public Schools. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  14. ↑ Dennis B. O'Brien Elementary School, Rockaway Township Public Schools. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  15. ↑ Stony Brook Elementary School, Rockaway Township Public Schools. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  16. ↑ Copeland Middle School, Rockaway Township Public Schools. Accessed March 6, 2015.
  17. ↑ Central Office Staff Directory, Rockaway Township Public Schools. Accessed September 2, 2015.
  18. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Morris County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 6, 2015.

Coordinates: 40°56′37″N 74°29′36″W / 40.943649°N 74.493347°W / 40.943649; -74.493347

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