Lakehurst School District

The Lakehurst School District is a community public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Lakehurst, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

Lakehurst School District
301 Union Avenue
Lakehurst, NJ 08733
District information
GradesPreK to 8
SuperintendentLoren Fuhring
Business administratorBarry Parliman
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment525 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Faculty33.8 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio15.5:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupB
Websitewww.lakehurstschool.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-8
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$16,80919$18,891−11.0%
1Budgetary Cost12,6281614,159−10.8%
2Classroom Instruction7,805168,659−9.9%
6Support Services1,715152,167−20.9%
8Administrative Cost1,724351,54711.4%
10Operations & Maintenance1,217141,612−24.5%
13Extracurricular Activities1403810434.6%
16Median Teacher Salary55,9741761,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 525 students and 33.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.5:1.[1]

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.[3]

Public school students from Lakehurst in ninth through twelfth grades attend Manchester Township High School in Manchester Township, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Manchester Township School District.[4][5] As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 997 students and 88.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1.[6]

The Lakehurst district decided in 2012 against a proposal that would have had borough students attend Jackson Liberty High School as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the Jackson School District. The change in the sending relationship had been considered as a means of reducing the costs associated with paying $14,000 for each of the 150 students attending Manchester High School, as opposed to the $11,300 that would have been paid at Jackson, yielding annual savings of $400,000, less the added cost of transporting students to and from Jackson.[7]

School

Lakehurst Elementary School had an enrollment of 384 students in the 2014-15 school year.[8]

  • Stephanie Rucci, Vice Principal of Student and Staff Development[9]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[10]

  • Loren Fuhring, Superintendent[11]
  • Barry Parliman, Business Administrator / Board Secretary[12]

References
  1. District information for Lakehurst Elementary School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  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 November 22, 2014.
  4. About Our District, Manchester Township School District. Accessed May 12, 2017. "We are also the receiving district for approximately 150 high school students from neighboring Lakehurst Borough."
  5. Manchester Township High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 12, 2017. "Manchester Township High School is a four-year comprehensive high school that serves the students of Manchester Township and Lakehurst."
  6. School data for Manchester Township High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  7. Martins, Andrew. "Plan to put Lakehurst pupils in JLHS dies" Archived 2013-10-17 at Archive.today, Tri-Town News, November 29, 2012. Accessed November 22, 2014. "Recent consideration regarding the possibility of students from neighboring Lakehurst being enrolled at Jackson Liberty High School in Jackson on a tuition basis is dead.The Lakehurst School District Board of Education voted Nov. 20 not to proceed with a plan that could have ended that district’s long-standing agreement with the Manchester School District in which high school-age students who live in Lakehurst attend Manchester High School."
  8. School Data for the Lakehurst Elementary School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 7, 2016.
  9. Vice Principal of Student and Staff Development, Lakehurst School District. Accessed May 12, 2017.
  10. New Jersey School Directory for Ocean County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  11. Superintendent, Lakehurst School District. Accessed May 12, 2017.
  12. School Business Administrator/Board Secretary, Lakehurst School District. Accessed May 12, 2017.

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