Grades K-12 Business administrator Peter Daquila Student-teacher ratio 15.00:1 Number of students 4,057 Faculty 270.5 | Superintendent Michael LaSusa Enrollment 4,057 (as of 2011-12) District Factor Group J Number of schools 6 | |
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The School District of the Chathams is a regional public school district serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Chatham Borough and Chatham Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
Contents
- Map of School District of the Chathams NJ USA
- Awards recognition and rankings
- Schools
- Administration
- References
Map of School District of the Chathams, NJ, USA
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 4,057 students and 270.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.00:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "J", the-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.
Elections were held in both municipalities in November 1986 to consider joining the disparate school systems of the two communities into a combined regional district. This proposal was supported by the voters and since then, the two municipalities have shared a regionalized school district.
Awards, recognition and rankings
For the 2004-05 school year, Chatham High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive. Milton Avenue School was one of 11 in the state to be recognized in 2014 by the United States Department of Education's National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. In 2015, Southern Boulevard School was one of 15 schools in New Jersey, and one of nine public schools, recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in the exemplary high performing category.
The district's high school was the 1st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 20th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 8th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are: