Bloomsbury School District

The Bloomsbury School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Bloomsbury, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.

Bloomsbury School District
Address
20 Main Street Bloomsbury, NJ 08804
Coordinates	40.65682°N 75.081959°W / 40.65682; -75.081959
District information
Grades	PreK to 8
Superintendent	Dr. Jenniffer Marycz
Business administrator	Timothy Mantz
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	87 (as of 2017-18)[1]
Faculty	11.3 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	7.7:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	GH
Website	bburyes.org
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-8 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $16,048 7 $18,891 −15.0% 1 Budgetary Cost 15,430 38 14,159 9.0% 2 Classroom Instruction 9,699 47 8,659 12.0% 6 Support Services 2,242 27 2,167 3.5% 8 Administrative Cost 1,811 50 1,547 17.1% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,639 25 1,612 1.7% 13 Extracurricular Activities 38 14 104 −63.5% 16 Median Teacher Salary 57,236 31 61,136 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

As of the 2017-18 school year, the district, consisting of one school, had an enrollment of 87 students and 11.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.7:1.[1] In the 2016-17 school year, the district had the 11th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state.[3]

The district participates in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, having been approved on November 2, 1999, as one of the first ten districts statewide to participate in the program.[4] Seats in the program for non-resident students are specified by the district and are allocated by lottery, with tuition paid for eligible participating students by the New Jersey Department of Education.[5]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-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.[6]

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Phillipsburg High School in Phillipsburg in Warren County, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Phillipsburg School District. The high school also serves students from four other sending communities: Alpha, Greenwich Township, Lopatcong Township and Pohatcong Township.[7][8][9] As of the 2017-18 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,663 students and 124.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.4:1.[10]

In 2016, the district announced that it was pursuing a $30,000 study to consider merger / consolidation with the Greenwich Township School District in Warren County, citing the "financial instability" the Bloomsbury district faces based on the way the Phillipsburg district calculates the costs for students sent for high school. The notice to residents announcing the feasibility study stated that the Greenwich district was chosen based on the quality of its academic programs, shared superintendent and business administrator, proximity, financial stability and shared sending relationship with Phillipsburg for high school.[11]

School

Bloomsbury Public School served an enrollment of 87 students as of the 2017-18 school year.[12]

• Dr. Jenniffer Marycz, Principal[13]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[14][15]

• Dr. Jenniffer Marycz, Superintendent[13]
• Timothy Mantz, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

The district's board of education has five 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 either one or two seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election.[16][17][18]

References

1. District information for Bloomsbury Borough School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. Guion, Payton. "These 43 N.J. school districts have fewer than 200 students", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 2017. Accessed January 30, 2020. "Based on data from the state Department of Education from the last school year and the Census Bureau, NJ Advance Media made a list of the smallest of the small school districts in the state, excluding charter schools and specialty institutions.... 11. Bloomsbury Borough - Enrollment: 108; Grades: Pre-K-8; County: Hunterdon"
4. Interdistrict Public School Choice Program: Approved Choice Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 19, 2008.
5. For Parents and Students, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 20, 2016.
6. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 6, 2014.
7. Phillipsburg High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 1, 2016. "At the secondary level, the district serves not only students from the town of Phillipsburg which makes up 37.6% of the high school population, but also students from the surrounding boroughs of Alpha and Bloomsbury, as well as the townships of Greenwich, Lopatcong, and Pohatcong."
8. About PSD Archived 2016-05-19 at the Wayback Machine, Phillipsburg School District. Accessed June 1, 2016. "The district serves students from the Town of Phillipsburg and five sending communities at the secondary level: Alpha, Bloomsbury, Greenwich, Lopatcong and Pohatcong Townships."
9. Municipal Guide to Public School Districts, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed June 1, 2016.
10. School data for Phillipsburg High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
11. Merger/Consolidation Fact Sheet #1, Bloomsbury School District, April 15, 2016. Accessed February 7, 2020. "Question/Comment: Why is the Board attempting a merger/consolidation?Response: In short, it is due to the financial instability of our district. You first have to know how we pay the Phillipsburg School District for our high school students to understand how this happened."
12. School Data for the Bloomsbury School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
13. Contact Us, Bloomsbury School District. Accessed February 7, 2020.
14. Directory, Bloomsbury School District. Accessed February 7, 2020.
15. New Jersey School Directory for Hunterdon County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
16. New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election, New Jersey Department of Education, updated February 16, 2018. Accessed January 26, 2020.
17. Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the Bloomsbury School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2018. Accessed February 3, 2020. " The Bloomsbury Borough School District is a Type II district located in the County of Hunterdon, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the School District functions independently through a Board of Education. The board is comprised of five members elected to three-year terms. The purpose of the district is to educate students in grades K-8."
18. Board of Education, Bloomsbury School District. Accessed February 7, 2020.

External links

• School District
• Bloomsbury School District's 2015–16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Bloomsbury School District, National Center for Education Statistics
• Phillipsburg High School