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Grades
  
pre-K to 12

Business administrator
  
Noreen Boston

Student-teacher ratio
  
13.45:1

Number of schools
  
12

Faculty
  
401.6

Superintendent
  
Dr. Ronnie Tarchichi

Enrollment
  
5,402 (as of 2011-12)

District Factor Group
  
CD

Number of students
  
5,402

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The Pennsauken Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Pennsauken Township, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.

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Map of Pennsauken Public Schools, NJ, USA

The Pennsauken Public Schools serve public school students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade. As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's 11 schools had an enrollment of 5,402 students and 401.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.45:1.

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.

Students from Merchantville had attended the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship that began in 1972, when the borough's high school was closed. For years, the Merchantville district had sought to end the relationship with the Pennsauken district. In the wake of a 2015 decision by the New Jersey Department of Education, Merchantville students began attending Haddon Heights High School starting in the 2015-16 school year, as part of a transition that will be fully in place in the 2018-19 school year.

Governance

In 1996 the district stated that a parent survey on school uniforms showed 68% of respondents favoring them.

Schools

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

Preschool

Baldwin Early Childhood Learning Center for PreK (103 students)

  • Diane Joyce, Principal
  • Elementary schools
  • Burling Elementary School (K-4; 125)
  • Rosalyn Lawrence, Principal
  • Carson Elementary School (PreK-4; 355)
  • Diane Joyce, Principal
  • Delair Elementary School (K-4; 418)
  • Rosalyn Lawrence, Principal
  • George B. Fine Elementary School (PreK-4; 316)
  • Tanya Harmon, Principal
  • Benjamin Franklin Elementary School (K-4; 437)
  • Landrus Lewis, Principal
  • Longfellow Elementary School (K-4; 258)
  • Landrus Lewis, Principal
  • Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School (K-4; 179)
  • Tanya Harmon, Principal
  • Middle schools
  • Pennsauken Intermediate School (5&6; 819)
  • Chantell Green, Principal
  • Howard M. Phifer Middle School (7&8; 819)
  • Thomas Honeyman, Principal
  • High school
  • Pennsauken High School (9-12; 1,573)
  • Gregory Munford, Principal
  • Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • Dr. James Chapman, Interim Superintendent
  • John Deserable, Interim Business Administrator / Board Secretary
  • References

    Pennsauken Public Schools Wikipedia