School district in Monmouth County, New Jersey, US
Farmingdale School District |
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49 Academy Street
Farmingdale , Monmouth County, New Jersey, 07727 United States |
Coordinates | 40°11′55″N 74°10′17″W / 40.198505°N 74.171479°W / 40.198505; -74.171479 |
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Grades | PreK-8 |
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Superintendent | Edith Conroy |
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Business administrator | Ronald Sanasac |
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Schools | 1 |
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Enrollment | 163 (as of 2022–23)[1] |
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Faculty | 24.0 FTEs[1] |
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Student–teacher ratio | 6.8:1[1] |
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District Factor Group | DE |
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Website | farmingdaleschool.com |
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Ind. |
Per pupil |
District spending |
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K-8 average |
%± vs. average
| 1A | Total Spending | $17,995 | 34 | $18,891 | −4.7% | 1 | Budgetary Cost | 15,453 | 40 | 14,159 | 9.1% | 2 | Classroom Instruction | 9,353 | 39 | 8,659 | 8.0% | 6 | Support Services | 2,602 | 41 | 2,167 | 20.1% | 8 | Administrative Cost | 1,707 | 42 | 1,547 | 10.3% | 10 | Operations & Maintenance | 1,712 | 33 | 1,612 | 6.2% | 13 | Extracurricular Activities | 32 | 10 | 104 | −69.2% | 16 | Median Teacher Salary | 49,801 | 8 | 61,136 | Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71 |
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The Farmingdale School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Farmingdale in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3][4][5][6]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 163 students and 24.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.8:1.[1] In the 2016–17 school year, Farmingdale had the 34th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 161 students.[7]
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.[8]
Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Howell High School, together with students from portions of Howell.[9] The school is part of the Freehold Regional High School District, which also serves students from Colts Neck Township, Englishtown, Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Manalapan Township and Marlboro.[10] As of the 2022–23 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 2,011 students and 133.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.1:1.[11]
- ^ a b c d District information for Farmingdale Public School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
- ^ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
- ^ Farmingdale Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Farmingdale School District. Accessed May 15, 2025. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through eight in the Farmingdale School District. Composition: The Farmingdale School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the Borough of Farmingdale."
- ^ County School List E-G, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Accessed May 15, 2024.
- ^ School Performance Reports for the Farmingdale Public School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.
- ^ New Jersey School Directory for the Farmingdale School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
- ^ Guion, Payton. "These 43 N.J. school districts have fewer than 200 students", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 2017. Accessed January 30, 2020. "Based on data from the state Department of Education from the last school year and the Census Bureau, NJ Advance Media made a list of the smallest of the small school districts in the state, excluding charter schools and specialty institutions.... 34. Farmingdale Borough - Enrollment: 161; Grades: Pre-K-8; County: Monmouth"
- ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 7, 2014.
- ^ FRHSD Attendance Boundaries; Which High School Will My Child Attend?, Freehold Regional High School District. Accessed May 15, 2024.
- ^ Freehold Regional High School District 2016 Report Card Narrative Archived 2017-12-10 at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 9, 2017. "The Freehold Regional High School District, the largest regional high school District in New Jersey, has six high schools with over 11,000 students and over 1,500 employees and spans 200 square miles. District members include the townships of Colts Neck, Freehold, Howell, Manalapan, and Marlboro, and the boroughs of Englishtown, Farmingdale, and Freehold."
- ^ School data for Howell High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.