Bound Brook School District

Bound Brook School District
111 West Union Avenue Bound Brook, NJ 08805
District information
Grades	pre-K to 12
Superintendent	Dr. Daniel Gallagher
Business administrator	Vincent McFadden
Schools	2
Students and staff
Enrollment	1,729 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty	122.5 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio	14.1:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	B
Website	www.bbrook.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $15,380 5 $18,891 -18.6% 1 Budgetary Cost 13,443 20 14,783 -9.1% 2 Classroom Instruction 7,308 10 8,763 -16.6% 6 Support Services 1,744 10 2,392 -27.1% 8 Administrative Cost 1,692 26 1,485 13.9% 10 Operations & Maintenance 2,314 49 1,783 29.8% 13 Extracurricular Activities 351 10 268 31.0% 16 Median Teacher Salary 58,720 23 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-12 districts with up to 1,800 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=49

The Bound Brook School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Bound Brook, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2013-14 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 1,729 students and 122.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.1:1.^[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.^[3]

Students from South Bound Brook, New Jersey, attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the South Bound Brook School District.^[4] At the beginning of the 2011-12, the school joined the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, which allows students from other area communities to attend the Bound Brook schools.^[5]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2013-14 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[6]) are:^[7][8][9]

Elementary school

• Bound Brook Elementary School^[10] (grades PreK-8; 1,202 students)

Middle school

• Smalley Middle School^[11]

High school

• Bound Brook High School^[12] (9-12; 527)

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[13][14]

• Dr. Daniel Gallagher, Superintendent
• Vincent McFadden, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

1. District information for Bound Brook School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 6, 2016.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed January 31, 2015.
4. Somerset County School Districts - Sending / Receiving / Regional, Somerset County, New Jersey. Accessed January 31, 2015. "BOUND BROOK PreK-12 RECEIVES 9-12 FROM SOUTH BOUND BROOK"
5. Calefati, Jessica. "N.J. adds 56 districts to interdistrict school choice roster for upcoming year", The Star-Ledger, April 14, 2011. Accessed January 31, 2015.
6. School Data for the Bound Brook School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 6, 2016.
7. About Us, Bound Brook School District. Accessed January 31, 2015. Although there are separate listings for Lafayette School, Lamonte School / Annex and Smalley School, all of these are combined as part of Bound Brook Elementary School.
8. New Jersey School Directory for the Bound Brook School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed January 31, 2015.
9. 2015-2016 Somerset County Public Schools Directory, pp. 8-9. Somerset County, New Jersey. Accessed November 5, 2016.
10. Bound Brook Elementary School, Bound Brook School District. Accessed January 31, 2015.
11. Smalley Middle School, Bound Brook School District. Accessed January 31, 2015.
12. Bound Brook High School, Bound Brook School District. Accessed January 31, 2015.
13. Board of Education, Bound Brook School District. Accessed January 31, 2015.
14. New Jersey School Directory for Somerset County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed January 31, 2015.

External links

• Bound Brook School District
• Bound Brook School District's 2014–15 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Bound Brook School District, National Center for Education Statistics

Coordinates: 40°33′49″N 74°32′20″W / 40.563575°N 74.539009°W