Seaside Heights School District

The Seaside Heights School District is a community public school district for students in kindergarten through sixth grade from Seaside Heights, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The district's Board of Education is made up of five members, each elected to three-year terms.

Seaside Heights School District
Address
1200 Bay Boulevard
Seaside Heights, NJ 08751
Coordinates39.946012°N 74.078539°W / 39.946012; -74.078539
District information
GradesK-6
SuperintendentTriantafillos Parlapanides
Business administratorKevin O'Shea
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment234 (as of 2017-18)[1]
Faculty23.0 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio10.2:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupA
Websitehttp://www.sshschool.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending
Rank
(*)
K-6
average
%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$30,17859$18,89159.7%
1Budgetary Cost16,0294213,64917.4%
2Classroom Instruction9,031298,3667.9%
6Support Services3,781552,16175.0%
8Administrative Cost1,347161,467−8.2%
10Operations & Maintenance1,554301,5520.1%
13Extracurricular Activities2274239482.1%
16Median Teacher Salary62,6644657,437
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=59

From 2003-2012, the Toms River Regional Schools provided administrative, maintenance, food and other services to the Seaside Heights Board of Education.[3] The Seaside Heights district had been overseen by Toms River central administration until April 2012 when the board elected to align with Central Regional superintendent Triantafillos Parlapanides.[4]

As of the 2017-18 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 234 students and 23.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.2:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "A", the 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.[5]

Public school students in seventh through twelfth grades attend the schools of the Central Regional School District, which also serves students from the municipalities of Berkeley Township, Island Heights, Ocean Gate and Seaside Park.[6] Schools in the district (with 2017-18 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[7]) are Central Regional Middle School[8] for grades 7 and 8 (761 students) and Central Regional High School[9] for grades 9 - 12 (1,401 students).[10][11] The district's Board of Education consists of nine members, who are directly elected by the residents of the constituent municipalities to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year.[12] Seaside Heights is allocated one of the board's nine seats.[13]

School

Hugh J. Boyd Jr. Elementary School served 233 students as of the 2017-18 school year.[14] The school was built in 1967, and is dedicated to Hugh J. Boyd Jr., its late, longtime Superintendent of Schools. Its addition built in 2005 is dedicated in the name of longtime Board of Education member Harry M. Smith III.

  • Chris Raichle, Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[15][16]

  • Triantafillos Parlapanides, Superintendent of Schools
  • Kevin O'Shea, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

  1. District information for Seaside Heights 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. Adelizzi, Joe. "Board OKs school plan in Seaside Toms River district will run school, improve it", Asbury Park Press, September 18, 2003. Accessed August 10, 2014. "The Toms River Regional school system will begin running daily operations at Hugh J. Boyd Elementary School after the borough Board of Education voted 4 to 1 in favor of the arrangement, recommended by the Ocean County superintendent of schools. "
  4. Miller, Patricia A. "Seaside Heights Drops Toms River Superintendent", Toms River Patch, April 24, 2012. Accessed July 31, 2013.
  5. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 8, 2014.
  6. Central Regional School District 2016 School Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 14, 2017. "The Central Regional School District is located in the Bayville section of Berkeley Township and draws from the constituent districts of Berkeley Township, Island Heights, Ocean Gate, Seaside Heights, and Seaside Park."
  7. School Data for the Central Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
  8. Central Regional Middle School, Central Regional School District. Accessed January 21, 2020.
  9. Central Regional High School, Central Regional School District. Accessed January 21, 2020.
  10. Our Schools, Central Regional School District. Accessed January 21, 2020.
  11. New Jersey School Directory for the Central Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  12. Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Central Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education, June 30, 2018. Accessed January 21, 2020. "The School District is a Type II district located in the County of Ocean, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the School District functions independently through a Board of Education. The Board is comprised of nine members appointed to three-year terms. These terms are staggered so that three members’ terms expire each year."
  13. Board Members, Central Regional School District. Accessed January 21, 2020.
  14. School Data for the Seaside Heights Public School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
  15. Board of Education, Seaside Heights School District. Accessed January 21, 2020.
  16. New Jersey School Directory for Ocean County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
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