Grades Pre-K to 8" Business administrator George M. Gahles Student-teacher ratio 13.6:1 Number of students 393 (2014–2015) Faculty 29 | Superintendent Elizabeth Giacobbe Enrollment 393 (as of 2014-15) District Factor Group B Schools 1 | |
The Beverly City Schools is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Beverly in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
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Map of Beverly City Schools, NJ 08010, USA
As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 393 students and 29.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.6:1.
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.
For ninth through twelfth grades, students in public school attend Palmyra High School in Palmyra, together with students from Riverton, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Palmyra Public Schools. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 421 students and 40.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.5:1. Beverly's sending relationship has been in place since 1967 after the City of Burlington Public School District decided that it could no longer accommodate students from Beverly at Burlington City High School.
In 2007, Lucille Davy, then Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, appointed a monitor to oversee the financial operations of the district and be responsible to "return fiscal integrity and sound fiscal health to the district", based on the results of financial audits in previous years, including repeat audit findings and general fund deficits.
School
Beverly City School had an enrollment of 297 students as of the 2014-15 school year.
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
Board of Education
The Beverly Board of Education has nine members, each of whom is elected to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year. There is no limit to the number of terms a board member may serve.