Lafayette Township School District

Lafayette Township School District
178 Beaver Run Road
Lafayette, NJ 07848
District information
Grades K-8
Superintendent Dr. Tom Butler (interim)
Business administrator Anne Hessler
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 251 (as of 2013-14)[1]
Faculty 26.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 9.7:1
Other information
District Factor Group GH
Website http://www.ltes.org
Ind. Per pupil District
spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$21,28650$18,89112.7%
1Budgetary Cost14,7133114,1593.9%
2Classroom Instruction8,795288,6591.6%
6Support Services2,095242,167-3.3%
8Administrative Cost1,886631,54721.9%
10Operations & Maintenance1,760361,6129.2%
13Extracurricular Activities1623810455.8%
16Median Teacher Salary58,2903761,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

The Lafayette Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Lafayette Township, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2013-14 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 251 students and 26.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.7:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-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]

For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students attend High Point Regional High School, which also serves students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Montague Township, Sussex Borough and Wantage Township (where the school is located).[4][5] As of the 2013-14 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 999 students and 89.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.1:1.[6]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2013-14 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[7]) are:

Elementary schools

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Lafayette Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed May 11, 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 December 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ High Point Regional High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 8, 2016. "High Point Regional High School is a comprehensive high school serving the diversified needs of the three surrounding K through 8 school districts of Lafayette, Frankford, Montague, and Sussex-Wantage."
  5. ↑ 2015-16 School Profile, High Point Regional High School. Accessed June 8, 2016. "Located 63 miles northwest of Manhattan in bucolic Sussex, County NJ, High Point serves students from six municipalities: Branchville, Lafayette, Frankford, Montague, Sussex, and Wantage."
  6. ↑ School Data for High Point Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed June 8, 2016.
  7. ↑ School Data for the Lafayette Township School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed May 11, 2016.
  8. 1 2 Administration, Lafayette Township School District. Accessed May 11, 2016.
  9. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Sussex County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 23, 2015.

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Coordinates: 41°07′58″N 74°39′15″W / 41.132648°N 74.654091°W / 41.132648; -74.654091

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