The Netcong School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Netcong, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3][4][5]
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Netcong School District |
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26 College Road
, Morris County, New Jersey, 07857 United States |
Coordinates | 40.899821°N 74.699237°W / 40.899821; -74.699237 |
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Grades | PreK to 8 |
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Superintendent | Kathleen E. Walsh |
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Business administrator | Paul Stabile |
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Schools | 1 |
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Enrollment | 299 (as of 2022–23)[1] |
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Faculty | 32.0 FTEs[1] |
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Student–teacher ratio | 9.3:1[1] |
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District Factor Group | DE |
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Website | www.netcongschool.org |
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Ind. | Per pupil | District spending | Rank (*) | K-8 average | %± vs. average |
1A | Total Spending | $16,141 | 9 | $18,891 | −14.6% | 1 | Budgetary Cost | 12,511 | 13 | 14,159 | −11.6% | 2 | Classroom Instruction | 8,154 | 21 | 8,659 | −5.8% | 6 | Support Services | 1,293 | 3 | 2,167 | −40.3% | 8 | Administrative Cost | 1,701 | 41 | 1,547 | 10.0% | 10 | Operations & Maintenance | 1,238 | 11 | 1,612 | −23.2% | 13 | Extracurricular Activities | 125 | 29 | 104 | 20.2% | 16 | Median Teacher Salary | 62,000 | 55 | 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 |
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As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 299 students and 32.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.3:1.[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.[6]
For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students attend Lenape Valley Regional High School, which serves Netcong and the Sussex County communities of Stanhope and Byram Township.[7] As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 691 students and 58.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1.[8]
The district formerly operated Netcong High School. The school, which opened in the 1900s, closed in 1974; the building became Netcong Elementary School.[9]
Judge Joseph Stamler of New Jersey Superior Court issued a decision in February 1970 in the case State Board of Education v. Board of Education of Netcong, New Jersey regarding a matter in which the district's school board had a policy providing for voluntary daily school readings at the start of the school day at the high school of prayers that had been published in the Congressional Record, as delivered by Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Attendance at these readings was voluntary, and the board said that they were intended as inspirational remarks, rather than prayer in the schools.[10] In his decision, Judge Stamler prohibited what he described as a "subterfuge [that] is degrading to all religions", arguing that by taking what were "beautiful prayers" and referring to them merely as "remarks", the school district was working to "peddle religion in a very cheap manner under an assumed name." The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously affirmed Stamler's decision and the United States Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from the district's school board.[11]