Garwood Public Schools Explained
| Garwood Public Schools |
| Superintendent: | Christopher Kinney |
| Businessadmin: | Bernadette Pinto |
| Address: | 400 Second Avenue |
| City: | Garwood |
| County: | Union County |
| State: | New Jersey |
| Zipcode: | 07027 |
| Grades: | PreK to 8 |
| Schools: | 1 |
| Enrollment: | 360 (as of 2022–23) |
| Faculty: | 31.6 FTEs |
| Ratio: | 11.4:1 |
| Free Label: | District Factor Group |
| Free Text: | DE |
The Garwood Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Garwood, in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[1] [2]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 360 students and 31.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1.[3]
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-highest of eight groupings.[4]
Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Arthur L. Johnson High School in neighboring Clark as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Clark Public School District.[5] [6] As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 884 students and 69.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1.[7]
History
Garwood had been a constituent municipality of the Union County Regional High School District, together with Berkeley Heights, Clark, Kenilworth, Mountainside and Springfield Township.[8] Established in 1937, the dissolution of the district in 1997 left Garwood without its own high school, which resulted in the establishment of the sending relationship with the Clark Public School District.[9]
Schools
Lincoln School served 354 students for pre-kindergarten to eighth grade in the 2021–22 school year.[10]
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[11] [12]
- Christopher Kinney, superintendent
- Bernadette Pinto, business administrator and board secretary
Board of education
The district's board of education, comprised of nine members, sets policy and oversees 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.[13] [14] [15]
External links
Notes and References
- https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/39/1710 School Performance Reports for the Garwood Boro School District
- https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/1710 New Jersey School Directory
- https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3405790&DistrictID=3405790 District information for Garwood Boro
- 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.NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 7, 2014.
- http://www.nj.gov/education/pr/1415/narrative/39/0850/000.html Clark Township Public Schools 2015 Report Card Narrative
- http://www.garwoodschools.org/?PN=AboutUs About Us
- https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3414280&ID=341428005650 School data for Abraham Clark High School
- https://www.nj.gov/education/legal/sboe/1998/union.pdf In the Matter of the Dissoulution of the Union County Regional High School District No. 1, Union County
- Hanley, Robert. "Schools Weigh Impact Of District Breakup", The New York Times, May 16, 1996. Accessed January 23, 2020. "The six towns have been fighting for the last three years about equitable financing of the regional district, and the four towns paying the highest shares of the district's $25 million annual budget out-voted the two towns with the smallest shares and decided to break up a system that has endured since 1937. The district was the first regional high school system formed in New Jersey, and now it is the first to vote to dissolve.... The district's two towns without high school buildings -- Garwood and Mountainside -- will remain kindergarten-to-eighth-grade districts and ship out their high school students.... Garwood, the staunchest foe of dissolving the district, now sends its students to Johnson High in Clark but has not decided yet whether to continue that relationship or accept an offer from Kenilworth to send them to a reopened Brearley High."
- https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3405790 School Data for the Garwood Public Schools
- https://sites.google.com/garwoodschools.org/gwadm1n?usp=sharing Administration
- https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/district/county/union New Jersey School Directory for Union County
- https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/dwb/DistrictByTypeList2018.pdf New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election
- https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/acfr/search/22/1710.pdf#page=44 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the Borough of Garwood School District
- https://sites.google.com/garwoodschools.org/boardofeducation/home Board Of Education Members
