Hope Township School District

The Hope Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Hope Township, in Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.^[3][4][5]

Hope Township School District
Address
320 Johnsonburg Road Hope Township , Warren County, New Jersey, 07844 United States
Coordinates	40.911171°N 74.967796°W / 40.911171; -74.967796
District information
Grades	PreK to 8
Superintendent	Kevin Newman
Business administrator	Andrew Italiano
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	131 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty	18.8 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	7.0:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	FG
Principal	Kevin Newman
Website	hope-elem.org
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-8 average  %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $17,773 30 $18,891 −5.9% 1 Budgetary Cost 14,915 34 14,159 5.3% 2 Classroom Instruction 7,908 16 8,659 −8.7% 6 Support Services 2,509 35 2,167 15.8% 8 Administrative Cost 1,977 68 1,547 27.8% 10 Operations & Maintenance 2,364 56 1,612 46.7% 13 Extracurricular Activities 127 31 104 22.1% 16 Median Teacher Salary 56,440 27 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 131 students and 18.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.0:1.^[1] In the 2016-17 school year, the district was tied for the 30th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state.^[6]

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.^[7]

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Belvidere High School, together with students from Harmony Township Belvidere, New Jersey and White Township, as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Belvidere School District.^[3][8] As of the 2020–21 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 367 students and 32.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1.^[9]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[10]) are:

• Hope Township School, with 115 students in grades pre-kindergarten to 8
  • Kevin Newman, principal^[11]

Administration

Core members of the districts' administration are:^[11][12]

• Kevin Newman, chief school administrator
• Andrew Italiano, business administrator and board secretary

Board of education

The district's board of education is comprised of seven members who set policy and oversee 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.^[13][14]