Waterford Township School District

The Waterford Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade from Waterford Township, in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.^[3]

Waterford Township School District
Address
1106 Old White Horse Pike Waterford Township , Camden County, New Jersey, 08089 United States
Coordinates	39.726901°N 74.852218°W / 39.726901; -74.852218
District information
Grades	PreK-6
Superintendent	Michael Nolan
Business administrator	Daniel J. Fox
Schools	3
Students and staff
Enrollment	819 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Faculty	78.5 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	10.4:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	DE
Website	District website
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-6 average  %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $15,156 8 $18,891 −19.8% 1 Budgetary Cost 14,020 26 13,649 2.7% 2 Classroom Instruction 7,860 14 8,366 −6.0% 6 Support Services 2,912 51 2,161 34.8% 8 Administrative Cost 1,525 26 1,467 4.0% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,594 32 1,552 2.7% 16 Median Teacher Salary 54,378 18 57,437 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=59

As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising three schools, had an enrollment of 819 students and 78.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.4:1.^[1]

The district is 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.^[4]

For seventh through twelfth grades, public school students attend the Hammonton Public Schools in Hammonton, as part of a sending/receiving relationship, alongside students from Folsom who attend for grades 9-12 as part of an agreement with the Folsom Borough School District.^[5][6][7] Schools in the Hammonton district attended by Waterford Township students (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[8]) are Hammonton Middle School^[9] with 879 students in grades 6-8 and Hammonton High School^[10] with 1,393 students in grade 9-12.^[11]

In the wake of the dissolution of the Lower Camden County Regional School District, the Hammonton board of education voted in 1999 to begin accepting an estimated 800 students from Waterford Township for grades 7-12 starting as soon as 2002, with the tuition paid by students from Waterford helping to lower overall costs to Hammonton taxpayers and the New Jersey Department of Education approved the agreement.^[12][13]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[14]) are:^[15][16][17]

• Thomas Richards Early Childhood Center^[18] with 221 students in grades 2-3 (now PreK-K)
• Atco Elementary School^[19] with 193 students in grades K-1 (now grades 1-2)
• Waterford Elementary School^[20] with 400 students in grades 4-6

Administration

The superintendent is Michael Nolan^[21] and the assistant superintendent for business is Daniel J. Fox.^[22][23]

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of nine members, 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 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.^[24][25][26]

In 1997 the district conducted a survey of 700 households on whether it should adopt school uniforms. 383 persons who responded indicated that they favored uniforms while 166 indicated opposition. At the time there were some members of the school board who formed a faction favoring school uniforms, while another faction opposed them.^[27]