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North Hanover Township School District

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Grades
  
K-6

Business administrator
  
Amy Lerner

Faculty
  
112.8 FTEs

Number of students
  
1,230 (2014–2015)

Superintendent
  
Helen E. Payne

Enrollment
  
1,230 (as of 2014-15)

Student-teacher ratio
  
10.9:1

Schools
  
4

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The North Hanover Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district which serves children in pre-Kindergarten through sixth grades from North Hanover Township and from the McGuire Air Force Base unit of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The district operates four elementary schools, with two located in Jacobstown and two on the grounds of McGuire Air Force Base. It is the largest K-6 school district in Burlington County.

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Map of North Hanover Township School District, North Hanover Township, NJ, USA

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its four schools had an enrollment of 1,230 students and 112.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth-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.

Public school students in seventh through twelfth grades attend the schools of the Northern Burlington County Regional School District, which also serves students from Chesterfield Township, Mansfield Township and Springfield Township, along with children of United States Air Force personnel based at McGuire Air Force Base. The schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Northern Burlington County Regional Middle School for grades 7 and 8 (758 students) and Northern Burlington County Regional High School for grades 9-12 (1,355 students). Both schools are in the Columbus section of Mansfield Township. The district's 2013-14 budget included $35.6 million in spending which is allocated using a formula that reflects the population and the value of the assessed property in each of the constituent municipalities, under which taxpayers in North Hanover Township pay 14.2% of the district's tax levy.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2014-15 school enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

  • Discovery Elementary School (grades PreK-K; 294 students) in McGuire AFB
  • Robert Scranton, Principal
  • Atlantis Elementary School (1-2; 236) in McGuire AFB
  • Michelle Stechini, Principal
  • Clarence B. Lamb Elementary School (1-4; 425) in Jacobstown
  • Heather Wawrzyniak, Principal
  • Upper Elementary School School (5-6; 272) in Jacobstown
  • Jimmy Alvarez, Principal
  • Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • Helen E. Payne, Superintendent
  • Amy Lerner, School Business Administrator / Board Secretary
  • References

    North Hanover Township School District Wikipedia