Paulsboro Public Schools

The Paulsboro Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Paulsboro, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.

Paulsboro Public Schools
662 North Delaware Street Paulsboro, NJ 08066
District information
Grades	K-12
Superintendent	Dr. Laurie Bandlow
Business administrator	Jennifer Johnson
Schools	4
Students and staff
Enrollment	1,142 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty	106.1 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	10.8:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	A
Website	http://www.paulsboro.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $19,580 35 $18,891 3.6% 1 Budgetary Cost 15,832 38 14,783 7.1% 2 Classroom Instruction 8,954 37 8,763 2.2% 6 Support Services 2,532 38 2,392 5.9% 8 Administrative Cost 1,826 36 1,485 23.0% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,833 36 1,783 2.8% 13 Extracurricular Activities 666 43 268 148.5% 16 Median Teacher Salary 71,500 46 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-12 districts with up to 1,800 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=49

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its four schools had an enrollment of 1,142 students and 106.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "A", the 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.[3]

Students in ninth through twelfth grades from Greenwich Township attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Greenwich Township School District.[4][5][6] As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 374 students and 36.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.3:1.[7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9][10]

Elementary schools

• Billingsport Early Childhood Center[11] (grades K-2; 327 students)
  • Paul Bracciante, Principal
• Loudenslager Elementary School[12] (3-6; 303)
  • Matthew Brown, Principal

Junior high school

• Paulsboro Junior High School[13] (7-8; 153)
  • Mildred Tolbert, Principal

High school

• Paulsboro High School[14] (9-12; 374)
  • Paul Morina, Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[15][16]

• Dr. Laurie Bandlow, Superintendent
• Jennifer Johnson, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

1. District information for Paulsboro School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
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 December 30, 2014.
4. Paulsboro Public Schools 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed August 1, 2017. "The district schools serve just under 1,200 students including high school students from Greenwich Township."
5. Staff. "Gloucester County municipal snapshots", Courier-Post, February 28, 2008. Accessed December 30, 2014. "Greenwich is Gloucester County's oldest township, incorporated in 1694.... About 650 students attend Greenwich's two local schools, the Broad Street School and the Nehaunsey Middle School. High school students attend Paulsboro High School."
6. Rickford, Russell J. "Greenwich And Paulsboro Discuss Possible Future Regionalization", The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 10, 1997. Accessed December 30, 2014. "School officials in the neighboring towns of Greenwich and Paulsboro have met to discuss ways that the two districts might ultimately transform their sending-receiving relationship and possibly merge to form a regional high school.... David Salvatore, the Greenwich school board president, said he was hoping for a change that might 'bridge the gap from grade school to high school' for Greenwich youngsters, many of whom go from eighth grade in Greenwich to ninth grade in Paulsboro."
7. School data for Paulsboro High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
8. School Data for the Paulsboro Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
9. Schools, Paulsboro Public Schools. Accessed August 1, 2017.
10. New Jersey School Directory for the Paulsboro Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
11. Billingsport Elementary School, Paulsboro Public Schools. Accessed August 1, 2017.
12. Loudenslager Elementary School, Paulsboro Public Schools. Accessed August 1, 2017.
13. Paulsboro June High School, Paulsboro Public Schools. Accessed August 1, 2017.
14. Paulsboro High School, Paulsboro Public Schools. Accessed August 1, 2017.
15. Contact Information, Contact Information. Accessed July 3, 2017.
16. New Jersey School Directory for Gloucester County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.

External links

• Paulsboro Public Schools
• Paulsboro Public Schools's 2015–16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Paulsboro Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics