Dover School District (New Jersey)

Dover School District
100 Grace Street Dover, NJ 07801
District information
Grades	K-12
Superintendent	Robert Becker
Business administrator	Catherine Jenisch
Schools	5
Students and staff
Enrollment	2,985 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty	220.4 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio	13.54:1
Other information
District Factor Group	A
Website	http://www.dover-nj.org
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $16,260 14 $18,891 -13.9% 1 Budgetary Cost 11,738 5 14,783 -20.6% 2 Classroom Instruction 7,392 15 8,763 -15.6% 6 Support Services 1,177 1 2,392 -50.8% 8 Administrative Cost 1,516 33 1,485 2.1% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,280 10 1,783 -28.2% 13 Extracurricular Activities 339 19 268 26.5% 16 Median Teacher Salary 64,322 41 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-12 districts with 1,800-3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=68

The Dover School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Dover in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 2,985 students and 220.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.54:1.^[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "A", the 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.^[3]

Students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Victory Gardens attend the schools of the Dover School District, which has been consolidated since 2010.^[4][5][6] Students in grades 7-12 from Mine Hill Township also participate in the Dover district as part of a sending/receiving relationship.^[7]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment from the National Center for Education Statistics^[8]) are:^[9][10]

Elementary schools

• Academy Street Elementary School^[11] (grades K-6, 541 students)
• East Dover Elementary School^[12] (K-6, 424)
• North Dover Elementary School^[13] (PreK-6, 710)

Middle school

• Dover Middle School^[14] (7-8, 451)

High school

• Dover High School^[15] (9-12, 859)

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[16][17]

• Robert Becker, Superintendent
• Catherine Jenisch, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

1. District information for Dover School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed October 12, 2014.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 12, 2014.
4. Martin, Liz. "Voters have their say on the budgets", Neighbor News, April 28, 2010. Accessed December 18, 2012. "The school board goes from 11 members to 10 after this election as the temporary Board seat assigned to the Victory Gardens representative Danielle Press expired permanently on April 20. Now that Victory Gardens has merged with the Dover school district, there will no longer be a dedicated Victory Gardens seat on the Board. Any resident from either Dover or Victory Gardens will be eligible to run for any available Board seat."
5. "Victory Gardens", Daily Record (Morristown). Accessed April 4, 2011. "Students in grades K-12 attend Dover public schools."
6. 13 Non-Operating School Districts Eliminated, New Jersey Department of Education press release dated July 1, 2009. Accessed December 26, 2009.
7. Dover High School 2013 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 12, 2014. "Dover High School, located 40 miles from New York City, services approximately 850 high school students from the Town of Dover, the Borough of Victory Gardens, and the Township of Mine Hill."
8. School Data for the Dover School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed October 12, 2014.
9. Schools Listing, Dover School District. Accessed October 12, 2014.
10. New Jersey School Directory for the Dover School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 12, 2014.
11. Academy Street Elementary School, Dover School District. Accessed October 12, 2014.
12. East Dover Elementary School, Dover School District. Accessed October 12, 2014.
13. North Dover Elementary School, Dover School District. Accessed October 12, 2014.
14. Dover Middle School, Dover School District. Accessed October 12, 2014.
15. Dover High School, Dover School District. Accessed October 12, 2014.
16. Dover Public Schools Listing, Dover Public Schools. Accessed September 27, 2015.
17. New Jersey School Directory for Morris County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 12, 2014.

External links

• Dover School District
• Dover School District's 2014–15 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• Data for the Dover School District, National Center for Education Statistics

Coordinates: 40°53′51″N 74°33′45″W / 40.897378°N 74.562576°W