Elk Township School District Explained

Elk Township School District
Superintendent:Piera Gravenor
Businessadmin:Joseph Collins
Address:98 Unionville Road
City:Elk Township
County:Gloucester County
State:New Jersey
Zipcode:08028
Country:United States
Grades:PreK-6
Schools:1
Enrollment:336 (as of 2022–23)
Faculty:32.6 FTEs
Ratio:10.3:1
Free Label:District Factor Group
Free Text:B

The Elk Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade from Elk Township, in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[1] [2] [3]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 336 students and 32.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.3:1.[4]

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.[5]

For seventh through twelfth grades, public school students attend the Delsea Regional School District, which serves students from both Elk Township and Franklin Township.[6] [7] Students from Newfield attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship begun in September 2010 after Newfield ended its prior relationship with the Buena Regional School District.[8] Schools in the district (with 2022–23 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[9]) are Delsea Regional Middle School[10] with 518 students in grades 7-8 and Delsea Regional High School[11] with 1,074 students in grades 9-12.[2] [12] [13]

History

Aura School was built in 1927 and rededicated in 1949 after a fire the previous year, with the newest addition built in 2002.[14]

The New Jersey Department of Education has considered a vote by the Board of Education of the Franklin Township Public Schools in June 2010 requesting that the district withdraw from the Delsea Regional School District, which would require that the Delsea region be dissolved as about 80% of the regional district's students come from Franklin. With the withdrawal of Franklin Township, the two options to consider were to have Franklin and Elk Townships create a new regional district with Newfield students attending on a send-receive basis, or to have Franklin Township establish its own PreK-12 district which would receive students from both Elk Township and Newfield.[15] [16]

School

Aura School had an enrollment of 334 students in grades PreK-6 as of the 2022–23 school year.[17]

Administration

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

Board of education

The district's board of education is comprised of nine members who set policy and oversee the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district.[20] [21]

Elk Township's Board of Education members include President J. Wilson Hughes Jr., Angelique Stoney-Siplin, Jennifer Wirtz, Danielle Bland, Cheryl Potter, Mary Snively, Courtney Vance, and Wayne Howard.[22]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HYw_rk990jjj-VCgs0dGVw0BQygp4ZLk/view Township of Elk Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification
  2. https://www.gloucestercountynj.gov/DocumentCenter/View/12267/GCPSD-revisions-for-2023-2024 2023-24 Gloucester County Office of Education Public School Directory
  3. https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/15/1330 School Performance Reports for the Elk Township School District
  4. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3404620&DistrictID=3404620 District information for Elk Township School District
  5. http://www.state.nj.us/education/finance/rda/dfg.shtml NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts
  6. https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=eb3fd7fee82948ee9c46f454eab6fb26 Delsea Regional Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification
  7. https://delsearegional.us/community/ Community
  8. Romalino, Carly Q. "Newfield's 'no' could hurt other districts", Courier-Post, November 4, 2015. Accessed March 10, 2024. "In 2012, Newfield ended its send-receive agreement with Buena schools in Atlantic County, instead sending its 400 elementary and 120 high school students to districts in neighboring Franklin Township. The send-receive agreement with Franklin Township Public Schools and Delsea Regional School District — which also educated Elk Township high schoolers — was touted as cheaper tuition than Buena."
  9. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3415450 School Data for the Delsea Regional School District
  10. https://delsearegional.us/middle-school/ Delsea Regional Middle School
  11. https://delsearegional.us/high-school/ Delsea High Middle School
  12. https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/15/4940 School Performance Reports for the Delsea Regional High School District
  13. https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/4940 New Jersey School Directory for the Delsea Regional School District
  14. http://www.elktownship.com/schools.html History of Schools
  15. Bumpus, Robert L. "Report of the Interim Executive County Superintendent of Schools on the Withdrawal of Franklin Township School District from Delsea Regional School District, a Limited Purpose Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education, March 30, 2012. Accessed September 8, 2013.
  16. Cooney, Joe. "Vote could end Delsea district; Franklin board seeks K-12 system", Asbury Park Press, July 13, 2012. Accessed December 24, 2014. "Franklin — The township’s school board is seeking approval for a referendum that could lead to dissolution of the Delsea Regional School District. Franklin and Elk currently make up the regional district for students in grades 7 to 12. If a vote takes place, residents in those communities would decide on whether to create a new district for both municipalities’ students in prekindergarten through 12th grade.... Newfield, which previously sent its kids to Buena Regional schools, now sends its students to Franklin and Delsea."
  17. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3404620 School Data for the Elk Township School District
  18. https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/district/county/gloucester New Jersey School Directory for Gloucester County
  19. https://www.auraelementary.us/staff-directory/ Staff Directory
  20. https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/dwb/DistrictByTypeList2018.pdf New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election
  21. https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/acfr/search/22/1330.pdf#page=63 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the Elk Township School District
  22. https://www.auraelementary.us/domain/75 Board Members

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