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Margate City Schools

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Grades
  
K-8

Business administrator
  
Susan Palaia

Student-teacher ratio
  
10.25:1

Number of students
  
492 (2011–2012)

Faculty
  
48

Superintendent
  
Dr. Theresa DeFranco

Enrollment
  
492 (as of 2011-12)

District Factor Group
  
DE

Schools
  
2

The Margate City Schools are a community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Margate City, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. Students from Longport Borough, a non-operating school district, jointly attend the district's schools.

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Map of Margate City Schools, NJ 08402, USA

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 492 students and 48.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.25:1.

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.

For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students from Margate and Longport attend Atlantic City High School in Atlantic City, which also serves students from Brigantine and Ventnor City who attend the school as part of sending/receiving relationships. As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,005 students and 196.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.2:1.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

Elementary school
  • William H. Ross III Elementary School (grades K-4; 249 students)
  • Michelle C. Ray, Principal
  • Middle school
  • Eugene A. Tighe Middle School (grades 5-8; 243 students)
  • Audrey Becker, Principal
  • Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • Dr. Theresa DeFranco, Superintendent of Schools
  • Susan E. Palaia, Board Secretary and School Business Administrator
  • References

    Margate City Schools Wikipedia