Mine Hill School District

Mine Hill School District
Canfield Avenue Mine Hill, NJ 07803
District information
Grades	K-6
Superintendent	Mr. Lee S. Nittel
Business administrator	Mrs. Carolina Rodriguez
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	417 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty	30.5 FTEs[1]
Student-teacher ratio	13.67:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	FG
Website	http://www.minehillcas.org/
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-6 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $15,600 11 $18,891 -17.4% 1 Budgetary Cost 12,469 11 13,649 -8.6% 2 Classroom Instruction 7,095 6 8,366 -15.2% 6 Support Services 2,111 27 2,161 -2.3% 8 Administrative Cost 1,662 33 1,467 13.3% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,537 28 1,552 -1.0% 13 Extracurricular Activities 63 29 39 61.5% 16 Median Teacher Salary 59,353 34 57,437 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-6 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=59

The Mine Hill School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade from Mine Hill Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 417 students and 30.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.67:1.^[1]

The district participates in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, having been approved on November 2, 1999, as one of the first ten districts statewide to participate in the program.^[3] Seats in the program for non-resident students are specified by the district and are allocated by lottery, with tuition paid for participating students by the New Jersey Department of Education.^[4]

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.^[5]

For seventh through twelfth grades, public school students attend Dover Middle School (grades 7&8) and Dover High School (grades 9-12) in Dover as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Dover School District.^[6] The district also serves students from Victory Gardens, which has been fully consolidated into the Dover School District since 2010.^[7][8] The high school was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon School Award in 2013.^[9]

Awards and recognition

During the 1991-92 school year, Canfield Avenue School was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.^[10]

School

Canfield Avenue School had an enrollment of 417 students during the 2011-12 school year.^[11]

• Adam Zygmunt, Principal^[12]

Administration

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

• Mr. Lee S. Nittel, Superintendent^[15]
• Mrs. Carolina Rodriguez, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

1. District information for Mine Hill Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 8, 2014.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. Interdistrict Public School Choice Program: Approved Choice Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 19, 2008.
4. Interdistrict Public School Choice Program: Introduction, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 19, 2008.
5. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 8, 2014.
6. Dover High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 11, 2016. "Dover High School, located 40 miles from New York City, services approximately 900 high school students from the Town of Dover, the Borough of Victory Gardens, and the Township of Mine Hill."
7. Martin, Liz. "Voters have their say on the budgets", Neighbor News, April 28, 2010. Accessed July 11, 2016. "The school board goes from 11 members to 10 after this election as the temporary Board seat assigned to the Victory Gardens representative Danielle Press expired permanently on April 20. Now that Victory Gardens has merged with the Dover school district, there will no longer be a dedicated Victory Gardens seat on the Board. Any resident from either Dover or Victory Gardens will be eligible to run for any available Board seat."
8. 13 Non-Operating School Districts Eliminated, New Jersey Department of Education press release dated July 1, 2009. Accessed July 11, 2016.
9. 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools; All Public and Private, United States Department of Education. Accessed March 2, 2015.
10. Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), United States Department of Education. Accessed May 11, 2006.
11. School Data for the Mine Hill Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 8, 2014.
12. Canfield Avenue School Principal, Mine Hill School District. Accessed December 8, 2014.
13. Staff Directory, Mine Hill School District. Accessed December 8, 2014.
14. New Jersey School Directory for Morris County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 8, 2014.
15. Superintendent, Mine Hill School District. Accessed December 2, 2016.

External links

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

Coordinates: 40°52′35″N 74°36′11″W / 40.876302°N 74.603127°W