Monroe Township School District

The Monroe Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Monroe Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

For the school district in Monroe Township, Gloucester County, see Monroe Township Public Schools.

Monroe Township School District
Address
423 Buckelew Avenue Monroe Township, NJ 08831 United States
Coordinates	40.328744°N 74.409365°W / 40.328744; -74.409365
District information
Grades	K-12
Superintendent	Dori Alvich
Business administrator	Michael C. Gorski
Schools	8
Students and staff
Enrollment	5,831 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty	444.6 FTEs
Student–teacher ratio	13.12:1
Other information
District Factor Group	FG
Website	https://monroe.k12.nj.us/
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $18,612 53 $18,891 −1.5% 1 Budgetary Cost 14,063 43 14,783 −4.9% 2 Classroom Instruction 8,362 36 8,763 −4.6% 6 Support Services 2,021 35 2,392 −15.5% 8 Administrative Cost 1,458 54 1,485 −1.8% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,753 62 1,783 −1.7% 13 Extracurricular Activities 330 84 268 23.1% 16 Median Teacher Salary 56,298 11 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-12 districts with more than 3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=103

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's seven schools had an enrollment of 5,831 students and 444.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.12:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth 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.[3]

Students from Jamesburg attend Monroe Township High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Jamesburg Public Schools established in 1980.[4][5]

Awards and recognition

During the 1991-92 academic school year, Mill Lake Elementary School received the National Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. This honor was followed during the 1998-99 academic school year at Barclay Brook Elementary School. Monroe Township could now boast that both their pre-K through third grade schools received the honor.[6]

Curriculum

In 1996 the New Jersey Department of Education revised the elementary school core curriculum to require foreign language classes. In mid-October 1999 the district sent a questionnaire to 13,000 houses regarding what language should be taught to elementary students. The district received 458 back. 271 of those questionnaires chose Spanish, 96 of the returned questionnaires indicated a preference for Mandarin Chinese and the remaining 91 requested other languages that included Latin, Russian, and English itself. Stephen E. Derkoski, the assistant superintendent, stated that "We can't ignore" that the area houses had a preference of Spanish over Chinese on a 3 to 1 basis.[7] In November 1999, the school board voted 7-1 to designate Spanish as the foreign language used in elementary schools.[7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9][10][11]

Elementary schools

• Applegarth Elementary School[12] (grades 4-5; enrollment not listed)
  • Dawn Graziano, Principal
    • Magdalena Fidura, Vice Principal
• Barclay Brook Elementary School[13] (PreK-2; 433 students)
  • Erinn Mahoney, Principal
• Brookside Elementary School[14] (3-5; 528)
  • Antonio Pepe, Principal
    • Magdalena Fidura, Vice Principal
• Mill Lake Elementary School[15] (PreK-2; 426)
  • Kristen Mignoli, Principal
    • Samantha McCloud, Vice Principal
• Oak Tree Elementary School[16] (PreK-3; was 793 in PreK-5)
  • Patricia Dinsmore, Principal
    • Pamela Amendola, Vice Principal
• Woodland Elementary School[17] (3-5; 520)
  • Adam Layman, Principal
    • Samantha McCloud, Vice Principal

Middle school

• Monroe Township Middle School[18] (6-8; 1,379)
  • Chari Chanley, Principal
    • James Higgins, Vice Principal
    • William Jacoutot, Vice Principal
    • Scott Sidler, Vice Principal

High school

• Monroe Township High School[19] for grades 9-12 (1,752)
  • Robert Goodall, Principal
    • Giuseppe Calella, Vice Principal
    • James Cernansky, Vice Principal
    • Kevin Higgins, Vice Principal
    • Scott Madreperla, Vice Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[20][21]

• Dori Alvich[22], Superintendent
• Michael C. Gorski, CPA, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

1. District information for Monroe Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 7, 2014.
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 September 7, 2014.
4. Monroe Township High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 12, 2017. "Monroe Township High School is centrally located within a forty-three square mile suburban community in Southern Middlesex County. Originally opened on Perrineville Road in 1973, the high school became a receiving school for approximately 300 high school age students from neighboring Jamesburg in 1980."
5. Cheslow, Jerry. "A Townful of Empty Nesters", The New York Times, October 14, 2007. Accessed September 7, 2014. "In addition to the four elementary schools, the Applegarth Middle School teaches Grades 7 and 8, and the 1,400-student Monroe Township High School covers Grades 9 through 12. It is shared with the borough of Jamesburg, the 'hole in the doughnut' municipality in the center of the township."
6. Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF) Archived 2009-03-26 at the Wayback Machine, United States Department of Education. Accessed March 27, 2011.
7. Moroz, Jennifer. "Monroe Picks Spanish For Its Grade Schools A Panel Urged Chinese To Fulfill The Foreign-language Requirement. But Parents' Wishes Swayed The Board.", The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 17, 1999. Accessed May 16, 2014.
8. School Data for the Monroe Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 7, 2014.
9. Schools, Monroe Township School District. Accessed September 7, 2014.
10. Monroe Township School District 2013 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 7, 2014. "The district is rapidly growing and now serves over 6000 students in eight schools: Barclay Brook (pre-k-2), Mill Lake (pre-k-2), Oak Tree (pre-k-3), Brookside (3-5), Woodland (3-5), Applegarth (4-5), Monroe Township Middle School (6-8), and Monroe Township High School (9-12)."
11. New Jersey School Directory for the Monroe Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
12. Applegarth Elementary School, Monroe Township School District. Accessed September 7, 2014.
13. Barclay Brook Elementary School, Monroe Township School District. Accessed September 7, 2014.
14. Brookside Elementary School, Monroe Township School District. Accessed September 7, 2014.
15. Mill Lake Elementary School, Monroe Township School District. Accessed September 7, 2014.
16. Oak Tree Elementary School, Monroe Township School District. Accessed September 7, 2014.
17. Woodland Elementary School, Monroe Township School District. Accessed September 7, 2014.
18. Monroe Township Middle School, Monroe Township School District. Accessed September 7, 2014.
19. Monroe Township High School, Monroe Township School District. Accessed September 7, 2014.
20. District Administration, Monroe Township School District. Accessed July 18, 2017.
21. New Jersey School Directory for Middlesex County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
22. Lang, Christopher. New Monroe superintendent adjusting well to role leading the district MonroeNOW. Accessed August 6, 2019.

External links

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