Elmer School District

Elmer School District
Front Street
Elmer, NJ 08318
District information
GradesK-6[1] (until circa 2003-2004)

K-4[2] (circa 2003-2004 to 2010)

none (non-operating district, 2010-2017)
SuperintendentStephen E. Berkowitz
Business administratorHenry Bermann
Schools1 (prior to 2010)
none (2010-2017)
Students and staff
Enrollment76 (as of 2007-08)[3]
Faculty6.0 FTEs
Student–teacher ratio12.7
Other information
District Factor GroupCD
Websitehttps://www.elmerschool.com
Ind. Per pupil District
spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-6
average		 %± vs.
average
1Budgetary Cost16,6095312,19536.2%
2Classroom Instruction7,212237,366−2.1%
6Support Services3,004531,83264.0%
8Administrative Cost1,646421,38918.5%
10Operations & Maintenance3,548611,472141.0%
13Extracurricular Activities79364097.5%
16Median Teacher Salary41,034252,691
Data from NJDoE 2009 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[4]
*Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=62

The Elmer School District was a community public school district that served students in pre-kindergarten and from the Borough of Elmer in Salem County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It operated an elementary school which covered up to grade 4 in the late 2000s.[2] In previous eras, the school went up to grade 6.[1] The district also operated The Learning Center in Elmer School for infants through PreK-4.

For fifth (as of the late 2000s) through twelfth grades, public school students attended Pittsgrove Township Middle School (5-8) and then Arthur P. Schalick High School (9-12), in Pittsgrove Township, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Pittsgrove Township School District.[5]

At a meeting conducted in June 2009, the Elmer Board of Education voted to merge its student body with that of the Pittsgrove Township School District and would send all of its students as part of the send-receive relationship.[6] It was fully disestablished in 2017 and merged into the Pittsgrove Township School District.

As of the 2007–08 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 76 students and 6.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7.[3]

The district was classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth-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] Elmer School District is now merged with Pittsgrove Township School District.

History

Circa 2003/2004 the school no longer covered the 5th and 6th grades.[8][9]

In 2009 the Elmer district reached an agreement on a sending/receiving relationship with the Pittsgrove District.[10] Elmer School District became a non-operating school district (in which it operates no schools and only sends students to other school districts) in 2010.[11]

In 2017 the Elmer School District and its board of education were dissolved,[12] and the Pittsgrove district acquired the Elmer school. The Pittsgrove district paid the Elmer district $620,000 for the Elmer School. The district dissolved after that purchase. The Elmer district had a debt of $2,800,000 to the State of New Jersey, and the state canceled the debt after the merger occurred.[13]

School

Elmer School had 76 students as of the 2007–08 school year.[14]

Administration

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

  • Stephen E. Berkowitz, superintendent and principal[16]
  • Henry Bermann, board secretary and school business administrator

References

  1. ^ a b "Frequently Asked Questions". Elmer School District. Archived from the original on August 4, 2002. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Home". Elmer School District. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2024. - See grade links on left hand pane.
  3. ^ a b District information for the Elmer Borough School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 5, 2009.
  4. ^ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  5. ^ 2005 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, April 2006, p. 19.
  6. ^ Dailey, Jennifer. "Elmer BOE OKs merger" (Archive), The Gloucester County Times, June 18, 2009. Accessed September 8, 2010.
  7. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 7, 2014.
  8. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Elmer School District. Archived from the original on October 29, 2003. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
  9. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Elmer School District. Archived from the original on February 17, 2004. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
  10. ^ Dailey, Jennifer (June 17, 2009). "Elmer and Pittsgrove school districts to merge through send and receive agreement". NJ.com. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
  11. ^ "BOARD OF EDUCATION ELMER BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT COUNTY OF SALEM AUDITOR'S MANAGEMENT REPORT ON ADMINISTRATIVE FINDINGS-FINANCIAL, COMPLIANCE AND PERFORMANCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2017" (PDF). p. 5 (PDF p. 7/17).
  12. ^ "Education". Elmer Borough. Retrieved June 24, 2024. As of July 31, 2017, there is no longer an Elmer Board of Education.
  13. ^ Gallo, Bill Jr. (August 3, 2017). "Merger means N.J. has one less school district and $2.8M debt was 'forgiven'". NJ.com. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
  14. ^ School Data for the Elmer School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 3, 2009.
  15. ^ Salem County School Directory Archived 2006-12-16 at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.
  16. ^ Elmer School Staff, 2009-2010, Elmer School. Accessed December 3, 2009.

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