New Hanover Township School District

The New Hanover Township School District is a consolidated public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from non-military portions of New Hanover Township (including its Cookstown section) and Wrightstown, two communities in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.^[3][4][5][6]

New Hanover Township School District
Address
122 Fort Dix Street Wrightstown , Burlington County, New Jersey, 08562 United States
Coordinates	40.037796°N 74.618045°W / 40.037796; -74.618045
District information
Grades	PreK to 8
Superintendent	Richard Wiener
Business administrator	Vincent Caravello
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	187 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty	21.4 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	8.7:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	B
Website	www.newhanover.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-8 average  %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $21,276 48 $18,891 12.6% 1 Budgetary Cost 20,538 63 14,159 45.1% 2 Classroom Instruction 12,598 66 8,659 45.5% 6 Support Services 3,647 59 2,167 68.3% 8 Administrative Cost 1,751 45 1,547 13.2% 10 Operations & Maintenance 2,241 54 1,612 39.0% 13 Extracurricular Activities 175 44 104 68.3% 16 Median Teacher Salary 61,383 52 61,136 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 187 students and 21.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.7:1.^[1] In the 2016-17 school year, the district had the 40th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state.^[7]

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.^[8]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students from both New Hanover Township and Wrightstown attend Bordentown Regional High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Bordentown Regional School District, a regional K-12 school district that serves students from Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro Borough.^{[9][10][11][12]} As of the 2019–20 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 791 students and 57.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.9:1.^[13]

Attendance boundary

The district only includes portions of the township not on the property of Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst.^[14] Students living on the base have choices of three school districts, none of them being New Hanover schools.^[15]

School

New Hanover Township School had an enrollment of 177 students in grades PreK-8 as of the 2019–20 school year.^[16]

• Scott Larkin, principal^[17]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[18]

• Scott Larkin, superintendent^[19]
• Vincent Caravello, business administrator and board secretary^[20]

Board of education

The district's board of education, composed of nine members,^{[contradictory]} sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district.^[21][22][23]

References

1. District information for New Hanover Township, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. New Hanover Township School District 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 14, 2020. "Built in 1938 with funding from the Public Works Administration, the New Hanover Township School currently serves the residents of Wrightstown and Cookstown as a vibrant, growing community of diverse learners spanning grades PK through 8."
4. Public Schools Directory 2023–2024, Burlington County, New Jersey. Accessed March 1, 2024.
5. School Performance Reports for the New Hanover Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.
6. New Jersey School Directory for the New Hanover Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
7. Guion, Payton. "These 43 N.J. school districts have fewer than 200 students", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 2017. Accessed January 30, 2020. "Based on data from the state Department of Education from the last school year and the Census Bureau, NJ Advance Media made a list of the smallest of the small school districts in the state, excluding charter schools and specialty institutions.... 40. New Hanover Township (tie) - Enrollment: 190; Grades: Pre-K-8; County: Burlington"
8. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 8, 2014.
9. District Information, Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed August 18, 2020. "Our district is comprised of the Township of Bordentown, the City of Bordentown and the Borough of Fieldsboro. New Hanover Township sends students on a tuition basis grades 9-12."
10. Bordentown Regional School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 21, 2017. "Bordentown Regional School District is a vibrant learning community, proudly serving the communities of Fieldsboro, Bordentown City and Bordentown Township.... In addition to the three aforementioned communities, Bordentown Regional High School also welcomes students from New Hanover into its ninth-twelfth grade population."
11. Staff. "Regional School Districts", Burlington County Times, April 26, 2015. Accessed June 2, 2016. "Bordentown Regional - Serves: Bordentown City, Bordentown Township, Fieldsboro, New Hanover"
12. Zimmaro, Mark. "Figures suggest deficit in New Hanover send-receive school proposal" Archived 2011-12-04 at the Wayback Machine, Burlington County Times, December 4, 2011. Accessed December 17, 2011. "The idea of sending the district’s sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to the Bordentown Regional Middle School on a tuition basis surfaced last year, but the school board shot down the proposal by a 4-3 vote.... The district has been considering sending 51 middle school students to Bordentown next year, in a similar agreement the districts have with the high school students. Bordentown Regional High School receives New Hanover and Wrightstown students in a 60-year-old agreement."
13. School data for Bordentown Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2021.
14. "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Burlington County, NJ" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 7, 2022. - Text list
15. "Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Education". Military One Source. Retrieved August 7, 2022. - This is a .mil site.
16. School Data for the New Hanover Township School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2021.
17. Principal, New Hanover Township School District. Accessed April 12, 2021.
18. New Jersey School Directory for Burlington County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
19. Superintendent, New Hanover Township School District. Accessed April 12, 2021.
20. Board Office, New Hanover Township School District. Accessed April 12, 2021.
21. New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election, New Jersey Department of Education, updated February 16, 2018. Accessed January 26, 2020.
22. Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the New Hanover Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2023. Accessed April 21, 2024. The district receives students from the Borough of Wrightstown and the Township of New Hanover. Except for students who have special needs requiring outside services, students attend the school in-district through the 8th grade. High School students (grade 9 to 12) attend Bordentown Regional High School via a long-standing send-receive relationship, or they can choose to attend the County Vocational School District.... New Hanover Township School District Board of Education is a Type II district located in the County of Burlington, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the District functions independently through a Board of Education (Board). The Board is comprised of nine members appointed to three-year terms. The District provides a full range of educational services appropriate to grade levels Pre-K through 8." See "Roster of Officials" on page 20.
23. Board of Education, New Hanover Township School District. Accessed April 12, 2021.

External links

• New Hanover Township Public Schools
• School Performance Reports for the New Hanover Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the New Hanover Township School, National Center for Education Statistics