Sussex-Wantage Regional School District
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31 Ryan Road Wantage, NJ 07461 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grades | K-8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Superintendent | Dr. Jeanne Apryasz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Business administrator | Christina Riker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schools | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Students and staff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Enrollment | 1,362 (as of 2011-12)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty | 116.8 FTEs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Student-teacher ratio | 11.66:1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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District Factor Group | FG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | http://www.swregional.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sussex-Wantage Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Sussex and Wantage Township, two communities in northern Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 1,362 students and 116.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.66:1.[1]
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.[3]
For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students from both Sussex and Wantage attend High Point Regional High School, together with students from Branchville, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township and Montague Township.[4][5][6] 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.[7]
Schools
The three schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[8]) are:[9][10]
- Clifton E. Lawrence School[11] in Wantage (375 students; grades K - 2)
- Pat Hart, Interim Principal
- Wantage Elementary School[12] in Sussex (484; 3 - 5)
- Michael Gall, Principal
- Sussex Middle School[13] in Sussex (503; 6 - 8)
- Shane Schwarz, Principal
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[14][15]
- Dr. Jeanne Apryasz, Superintendent
- Christina Riker, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
References
- 1 2 District information for Sussex-Wantage Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 18, 2014.
- ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
- ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 18, 2014.
- ↑ Sussex-Wantage Regional School District 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 23, 2015. "Our district serves over 1,200 students in three schools: Pre-School through Grade 2 in the Clifton E. Lawrence School, Grades 3–5 in the Wantage School, and Grades 6–8 in the Sussex Middle School. Our students attend High Point Regional High School in Grade 9, along with students from the Lafayette and Frankford Township School Districts."
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ School Data for High Point Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed June 8, 2016.
- ↑ School Data for the Sussex-Wantage Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 18, 2014.
- ↑ Schools, Sussex-Wantage Regional School District. Accessed September 18, 2014.
- ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Sussex-Wantage Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 18, 2014.
- ↑ Clifton E. Lawrence School, Sussex-Wantage Regional School District. Accessed September 18, 2014.
- ↑ Wantage Elementary School, Sussex-Wantage Regional School District. Accessed September 18, 2014.
- ↑ Sussex Middle School, Sussex-Wantage Regional School District. Accessed September 18, 2014.
- ↑ Administration, Sussex-Wantage Regional School District. Accessed September 18, 2014.
- ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Sussex County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 18, 2014.
External links
- Sussex-Wantage Regional School District
- Sussex-Wantage Regional School District's 2014–15 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- School Data for the Sussex-Wantage Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics
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