Bernards Township School District

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Bernards Township School District
101 Peachtree Road
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
District information
Grades pre-K to 12
Superintendent Nick Markarian
Business administrator Rod McLaughlin
Schools 6
Students and staff
Enrollment 5,676 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 426.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 13.32:1
Other information
District Factor Group J
Website www.bernardsboe.com
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-12
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1A Total Spending $17,357 34 $18,891 -8.1%
1 Budgetary Cost 13,897 39 14,783 -6.0%
2 Classroom Instruction 8,331 34 8,763 -4.9%
6 Support Services 2,279 50 2,392 -4.7%
8 Administrative Cost 1,196 13 1,485 -19.5%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,776 65 1,783 -0.4%
13 Extracurricular Activities 317 77 268 18.3%
16 Median Teacher Salary 62,380 36 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 Bernards Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district, serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Bernards Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 5,676 students and 426.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.32:1.[1]

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

Awards, recognition and rankings

During the 2009-10 school year, Ridge High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.[4] The school had also won the award for the 1986-87 school year.[5]

Mount Prospect Elementary School was one of 11 in the state to be recognized in 2014 by the United States Department of Education's National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.[6][7]

Schools

The schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9][10][11]

Elementary schools
  • Cedar Hill Elementary School[12] (grades K-5; 595 students). The school houses a state-of-the-art public program for children on the autism spectrum, utilizing the principles of applied behavior analysis.[13]
    • Joseph Mollica, Principal
    • Sloan Scully, Assistant Principal
  • Liberty Corner Elementary School[14] (K-5; 565)
    • Kathleen Pecoraro, Principal
    • James Oliver, Assistant Principal
  • Mount Prospect Elementary School[15] (PreK-5; 689)
    • Joanne Hozeny, Principal
    • Paul Ciempola, Assistant Principal
  • Oak Street Elementary School[16] (K-5; 632)
    • Jane Costa, Principal
    • Scott Graber, Assistant Principal
Middle school
  • William Annin Middle School[17] (6-8; 1,408). The school is one of the few in the United States to have a seismograph, which is part of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Cooperative Seismographic Network.[18][19]
    • Karen Hudock, Principal
    • Brian Heineman, Assistant Principal
High school
  • Ridge High School[20] (9-12; 1,787). The high school mascot is the Ridge Red Devil.
    • Frank Howlett Jr, Principal
    • Gina Donlevie, Assistant Principal
    • Kathleen Dusebout, Assistant Principal
    • Scott Thompson, Assistant Principal
    • Thomas Thorp, Assistant Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[21][22]

  • Nick Markarian, Superintendent
  • Rod McLaughlin, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for Bernards Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  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 31, 2014.
  4. ↑ 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools: All Public and Private Schools, United States Department of Education. Accessed October 29, 2009.
  5. ↑ BLUE RIBBON SCHOOLS PROGRAM Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002, United States Department of Education. Accessed May 31, 2013.
  6. ↑ Goldman, Jeff. "Which N.J. schools were named to national 'Blue Ribbon' list?", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 2, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2014. "Eleven New Jersey schools have been named to the annual National Blue Ribbon list, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday."
  7. ↑ 2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private, United States Department of Education. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  8. ↑ School Data for the Bernards Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  9. ↑ Schools, Bernards Township School District. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  10. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Bernards Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  11. ↑ 2013-2014 Somerset County Public School Directory, Somerset County, New Jersey. Accessed February 3, 2015.
  12. ↑ Cedar Hill Elementary School, Bernards Township School District. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  13. ↑ Frequently Asked Questions, Bernards Township School District. Accessed December 31, 2014. "The PALS program is currently housed at Cedar Hill School Elementary School. Full Day PALS Class- The full day PALS class is primarily designed for children with a medical diagnosis of autism. It is based upon the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)."
  14. ↑ Liberty Corner Elementary School, Bernards Township School District. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  15. ↑ Mount Prospect Elementary School, Bernards Township School District. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  16. ↑ Oak Street Elementary School, Bernards Township School District. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  17. ↑ William Annin Middle School, Bernards Township School District. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  18. ↑ About LCSN, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Cooperative Seismographic Network. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  19. ↑ Hayes, Edward. "School in Bernards tracks earthquakes", Courier News, January 21, 201. Accessed December 31, 2014. "There are several colleges and universities that maintain seismology equipment for studying, tracking and monitoring earthquakes. And along with them is William Annin Middle School, which maintains its own seismograph for Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York."
  20. ↑ Ridge High School, Bernards Township School District. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  21. ↑ Administration, Bernards Township School District. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  22. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Somerset County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 31, 2014.

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