Seaside Park School District

The Seaside Park School District is a non-operating community public school district that operated one school serving students in Kindergarten through sixth grade from Seaside Park, New Jersey, United States, until it closed at the end of the 2009-10 school year.

Seaside Park School District
Central & Fourth Avenues Seaside Park, NJ 08752
District information
Grades	K-6
Superintendent	Thomas Gialanella (interim)
Business administrator	Barry J. Parliman
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	71 (as of 2008-09)[1]
Faculty	10.0 FTEs
Student–teacher ratio	7.8
Other information
District Factor Group	DE
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-6 average %± vs. average 1 Budgetary Cost 20,532 59 12,195 68.4% 2 Classroom Instruction 13,330 61 7,366 81.0% 6 Support Services 3,379 58 1,832 84.4% 8 Administrative Cost 1,657 49 1,389 19.3% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,436 30 1,472 −2.4% 13 Extracurricular Activities 25 16 40 −37.5% 16 Median Teacher Salary 46,820 9 52,691 Data from NJDoE 2009 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=62

District officials announced in May 2010 that the school would be closing and that students would attend elementary schools in the nearby Toms River Regional Schools for grades K-6. Officials cited costs of $37,000 per student if the school remained open, versus $10,500 per student if attending the Toms River district.[3] The shared services agreement was renewed for the 2013-2014 school year.[4]

As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 71 students and 11.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.1.[1]

The district was classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-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.[5]

Public school students in seventh through twelfth grades attend the schools of the Central Regional School District, which serves students from Island Heights and from the municipalities of Berkeley Township, Ocean Gate, Seaside Heights 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 Park is allocated one of the board's nine seats.[13]

Schools

• Seaside Park Elementary School had an enrollment of 71 students in the 2008-09 school year.[14]
  • Thomas Matthews, Principal[15]

Administration

Core members of the district's / school's administration were:

• Thomas Gialanella, Interim Superintendent
• Barry J. Parliman, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

1. District information for the Seaside Park Borough School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 17, 2011.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. Staff. "Seaside Park Elementary School closing", News 12 New Jersey, May 12, 2010. Accessed May 12, 2010.
4. Kyriakakis, Gregory. "School District Renews Shared Services Agreement With Seaside Park". Toms River Patch, February 22, 2013. Accessed December 24, 2014. "Seaside Park closed the Seaside Park Elementary School in 2010 and formed the sending arrangement for K-6 students with Toms River."
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 Park Elementary School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 17, 2011.
15. of Education Board of Education Archived 2011-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, Seaside Park School District. Accessed August 24, 2008.

External links

• Seaside Park Elementary School
• Seaside Park Elementary School's 2015–16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Seaside Park Elementary School, National Center for Education Statistics
• Central Regional School District