Beverly City Schools

Beverly City Schools
Address
601 Bentley Avenue
Beverly
, Burlington County, New Jersey, 08010
United States
Coordinates40°03′40″N 74°55′22″W / 40.061019°N 74.922787°W / 40.061019; -74.922787
District information
GradesPre-K to 8
SuperintendentElizabeth Giacobbe
Business administratorBrian F. Savage
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment353 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty36.0 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio9.8:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupB
Websitewww.beverlycityschool.org
Ind. Per pupil District
spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-8
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$18,92741$18,8910.2%
1Budgetary Cost13,7361814,159−3.0%
2Classroom Instruction8,101198,659−6.4%
6Support Services2,702492,16724.7%
8Administrative Cost1,444151,547−6.7%
10Operations & Maintenance1,419181,612−12.0%
13Extracurricular Activities4819104−53.8%
16Median Teacher Salary56,1492361,136
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 Beverly City Schools is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Beverly in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3][4][5][6]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 353 students and 36.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.8:1.[1]

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.[7]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students in public school attend Palmyra High School in Palmyra, together with students from Riverton, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Palmyra Public Schools.[8][9] As of the 2022–23 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 388 students and 34.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1.[10] Beverly's sending relationship has been in place since 1967 after the City of Burlington Public School District decided that it could no longer accommodate students from Beverly at Burlington City High School.[11]

In 2007, Lucille Davy, then Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, appointed a monitor to oversee the financial operations of the district and be responsible to "return fiscal integrity and sound fiscal health to the district", based on the results of financial audits in previous years, including repeat audit findings and general fund deficits.[12]

School

Beverly City School had an enrollment of 304 students in grades PreK-8 in the 2022–23 school year.[13]

In 1948, during de jure educational segregation in the United States, the district had a school for black children.[14]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[15][16]

  • Elizabeth C. Giacobbe, superintendent and principal
  • Brian F. Savage, business administrator and board secretary[17]

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.[18][19][20]

References

  1. ^ a b c d District information for Beverly City School District, 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. ^ Beverly City Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Beverly City Schools. Accessed February 26, 2024. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through eight in the Beverly City School District. Composition: The Beverly City School District comprises all the area within the municipal boundaries of the City of Beverly."
  4. ^ Public Schools Directory 2023–2024, Burlington County, New Jersey. Accessed March 1, 2024.
  5. ^ School Performance Reports for the Beverly City School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.
  6. ^ New Jersey School Directory for the Beverly City Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  7. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  8. ^ Administration Archived 2016-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, Palmyra Public Schools. Accessed January 11, 20174. "Palmyra Public Schools offers a wide range of educational programs for the residents of Palmyra, Beverly City, and Riverton, New Jersey. These programs include a preschool handicapped program at Delaware Avenue Elementary School, a K-6 elementary program at Charles Street Elementary School, and a 7-12 program at Palmyra High School."
  9. ^ High School Sending Districts, Burlington County Library System, backed up by the Internet Archive as of September 27, 2009. Accessed January 11, 2017.
  10. ^ School data for Palmyra High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  11. ^ Hefler, Jan. "Crowd Opposes Closing Palmyra High", The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 25, 1989. Accessed November 20, 2013. "Palmyra High School students, their parents and their teachers made it abundantly clear at a public meeting last week that they don't want the Board of Education to shut the high school, the first high school built in Burlington County.... Glenn Gray, superintendent of the Beverly School District, which sends about 80 students to Palmyra High School, said the Beverly board was 'reserving opinion' until a decision was announced.... Since 1967, Beverly students have traveled eight miles - 30 minutes by bus - passing through the Riverside and Delran School Districts, to reach Palmyra High. The reason is that Palmyra was the nearest school that could accept the Beverly students when the Burlington City school district ran out of space for them, Gray said."
  12. ^ Commissioner Davy Appoints State Monitor for Beverly City, New Jersey Department of Education press release, dated November 28, 2007. Accessed December 6, 2014.
  13. ^ School Data for the Beverly City School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  14. ^ Jensen, Noma (Winter 1948). "A Survey of Segregation Practices in the New Jersey School System". The Journal of Negro Education. 17 (1). Journal of Negro Education: 84–88. JSTOR 2966093. - CITED: p. 85.
  15. ^ Faculty and Staff Contact Information, Beverly City School. Accessed February 26, 2024.
  16. ^ New Jersey School Directory for Burlington County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  17. ^ Business Office, Beverly City School. Accessed February 26, 2024.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the Beverly City School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2023. Accessed February 26, 2024. "The Beverly City School District is a Type II district located in the county of Burlington, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the School District functions independently through a Board of Education. The Board is comprised of seven members elected to three-year staggered terms. The purpose of the District is to educate students in grades PreK-8."
  20. ^ Board of Education, Beverly City Schools. Accessed February 26, 2024.