Rockaway Borough Public Schools

Rockaway Borough Public Schools
103 East Main Street Rockaway, NJ 07866
District information
Grades	K-8
Superintendent	Dennis Mack (interim)
Business administrator	Edward Appleton
Schools	2
Students and staff
Enrollment	662 (as of 2012-13)[1]
Faculty	38.4 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio	17.24:1
Other information
District Factor Group	FG
Website	http://www.rockboro.org
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-8 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $12,587 1 $18,891 -33.4% 1 Budgetary Cost 11,398 7 14,159 -19.5% 2 Classroom Instruction 6,098 2 8,659 -29.6% 6 Support Services 2,501 44 2,167 15.4% 8 Administrative Cost 1,401 13 1,547 -9.4% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,295 17 1,612 -19.7% 13 Extracurricular Activities 70 16 104 -32.7% 16 Median Teacher Salary 49,502 2 61,136 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64

The Rockaway Borough Public Schools are a community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from Rockaway Borough, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2012-13 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 662 students and 38.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.24:1.^[1]

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.^[3]

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend either Morris Hills High School (those mostly north of Route 46) or Morris Knolls High School (mostly south of Route 46). Morris Hills (located in Rockaway Borough, with 1,139 students as of 2012-13) also serves students from Wharton and some from Rockaway Township (the White Meadow Lake section and other southern portions of the township); Morris Knolls (located in Denville, with 1,644 students) serves all students from Denville and most of Rockaway Township (with the exception of White Meadow Lake and other areas in the southern part of the township).^[4][5] The The Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, a magnet high school program that is part of the Morris County Vocational School District is jointly operated on the Morris Hills campus.^[6] The two high schools are part of the Morris Hills Regional High School District.^[7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2012-13 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[8]) are:^[9][10]

Elementary school

• Lincoln Elementary School^[11] for grades Pre-K - 3 (291 students)
  • Phyllis Alpaugh, Principal

Middle school

Thomas Jefferson Middle School^[12] for grades 4 - 8 (371 students)

• • Dr. Brian Purzak, Principal
  • Mark Schwarz, Assistant Principal

Administration

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

• Dennis Mack, Interim Superintendent
• Edward Appleton, Business Administrator / Board Secretary^[14]

References

1. District information for Rockaway School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 7, 2015.
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 March 7, 2015.
4. Program of Studies 2013-2014 - About Our School District, Morris Hills Regional District. Accessed March 7, 2015.
5. School Data for the Morris Hills Regional High School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 7, 2015
6. Home page, Morris Hils High School. Accessed March 7, 2015. "Morris Hills is home to the Academy of Mathematics, Science and Engineering, a partnership with Morris County School of Technology."
7. Morris Hills Regional High School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 11, 2015. "Our schools' success is directly attributed to the support we receive from the residents of Denville, Rockaway Borough, Rockaway Township and Wharton - people who care about their children and who value education."
8. School Data for the Rockaway Borough Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December March 7, 2015.
9. Schools, Rockaway Borough School District. Accessed v.
10. New Jersey School Directory for the Rockaway Borough Public Schools, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 7, 2015.
11. Lincoln Elementary School, Rockaway Borough Public Schools. Accessed March 7, 2015.
12. Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Rockaway Borough Public Schools. Accessed March 7, 2015.
13. New Jersey School Directory for Morris County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 7, 2015.
14. Business Administration, Rockaway Borough School District. Accessed March 7, 2015.

External links

• Rockaway Borough Public Schools
• Rockaway Borough Public Schools's 2014–15 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• Rockaway Borough Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

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