Deal School District

The Deal School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Deal, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The school was established in September 1953.[3]

Deal School District
Address
201 Roseld Avenue Deal, NJ 07723 United States
Coordinates	40.24764°N 74.005876°W / 40.24764; -74.005876
District information
Grades	K-8
Superintendent	Donato J. Saponaro Sr.
Business administrator	Pia Lordi
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	165 (as of 2017–18)[1]
Faculty	17.1 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	9.7:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	NA
Website	District website
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-8 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $25,266 65 $18,891 33.7% 1 Budgetary Cost 17,450 53 14,159 23.2% 2 Classroom Instruction 8,521 24 8,659 −1.6% 6 Support Services 2,650 44 2,167 22.3% 8 Administrative Cost 1,655 37 1,547 7.0% 10 Operations & Maintenance 4,253 69 1,612 163.8% 13 Extracurricular Activities 371 61 104 256.7% 16 Median Teacher Salary 55,484 21 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, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 165 students and 17.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.7:1.[1] In the 2016–17 school year, Deal had the 35th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 165 students.[4]

As a participant in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, the majority of the district's students live outside of Deal, with 37 slots allocated for choice students in the 2014-15 school year, 20 of which were for Kindergarten students.[5] As of the 2002-03 school year, nearly 75% of students at Deal School attended from outside the district on a tuition basis, paying $4,300 per student, per year, with students coming from the neighboring communities of Loch Arbour, Asbury Park, Ocean Township, Red Bank and Belmar.[3] By the 2013-14 school year, nearly 90% of the district's enrollment was from choice students, for whom the state paid the district $12,500 in supplemental aid per student.[6]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students attend Shore Regional High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[7] As of the 2017–18 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 651 students and 56.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.6:1.[8] The relationship with Shore Regional succeeds a previous agreement under which students from deal attended Asbury Park High School in neighboring Asbury Park as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Asbury Park Public Schools.[9][10]

School

Deal School served an enrollment of 165 students in grades K–8 as of the 2017–18 school year.[11]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[12][13]

• Donato J. Saponaro Sr., Superintendent of Schools[14]
• Pia Lordi, Business Administrator

Michael Salvatore, superintendent of the Long Branch Public Schools, had overseen the Deal district under a shared services arrangement reached in August 2014 in which Salvatore was paid an additional $10,000 from Deal on top of his $165,000 base salary.[15]

Board of education

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 Deal Boro 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. Martin, Patti. "At 50, Deal School still looks familiar", Asbury Park Press, May 22, 2003. Accessed July 21, 2008.
4. 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.... 35. Deal - Enrollment: 165; Grades: K-8; County: Monmouth"
5. School Choice Seat Availability 2014-2015, Deal School District. Accessed August 20, 2014.
6. McGlone, Peggy. "NJ Interdistrict Choice program shows huge growth but limited reach", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, June 8, 2014, updated March 29, 2019. Accessed February 20, 2020. "The K-8 district in the wealthy Monmouth County Shore town receives almost $2 million in extra state aid, $12,573 for each of its 145 out-of-town Choice students. Only 15 students in the district’s one school live in Deal."
7. Public Minutes August 27, 2018, Deal School District. Accessed October 21, 2018. "Approve the tuition arrangement for the 2018-2019 School Year with Shore Regional High School at a rate of $10,824.32 per pupil for regular education."
8. School data for Shore Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
9. Mullen, Shannon; Shields, Nancy; and Matheson, Kathy. "Crime, school solutions costly as city seeks rebirth", Asbury Park Press, January 27, 2005. Accessed September 3, 2007. "Academy Charter, now in its seventh year, is free to students in Asbury Park and the seven nearby towns that are sending districts for Asbury Park High School: Allenhurst, Avon, Belmar, Bradley Beach, Deal, Interlaken and Lake Como, formerly South Belmar."
10. Reorganization Agenda January 7, 2016, Shore Regional High School. Accessed October 21, 2018. "Whereas, the content of the announcement was to advise the public that the Deal Board of Education filed a Petition of Appeal with the Commissioner of Education to sever its Sending-Receiving Relationship with the Asbury Park Board of Education, and to establish a new Sending-Receiving Relationship with the Shore Regional High School Board of Education"
11. School Data for the Deal School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
12. Student and Parent Handbook 2019-2020, Deal School District. Accessed February 20, 2020.
13. New Jersey School Directory for Monmouth County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
14. Contact Us, Deal School District. Accessed October 21, 2018.
15. Williams, Carol Gorga. "Long Branch educator takes on Deal school", Asbury Park Press, August 7, 2014. Accessed August 20, 2014. "The school board recently approved a $165,000 annual salary for Salvatore in a contract that expires in June 2019. Salvatore, however, will pick up an additional $10,000 a year as the superintendent for the Deal school district."
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 Deal School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2018. Accessed February 20, 2020. "The Deal School District is a Type II district located in the County of Monmouth, 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, Deal School District. Accessed February 20, 2020.

External links

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