Hope Township School District

Hope Township School District
Address
320 Johnsonburg Road
Hope Township
, Warren County, New Jersey, 07844
United States
Coordinates40°54′40″N 74°58′04″W / 40.911171°N 74.967796°W / 40.911171; -74.967796
District information
GradesPreK to 8
SuperintendentKevin Newman
Business administratorAndrew Italiano
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment131 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty18.8 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio7.0:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupFG
PrincipalKevin Newman
Websitehope-elem.org
Ind. Per pupil District
spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-8
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$17,77330$18,891−5.9%
1Budgetary Cost14,9153414,1595.3%
2Classroom Instruction7,908168,659−8.7%
6Support Services2,509352,16715.8%
8Administrative Cost1,977681,54727.8%
10Operations & Maintenance2,364561,61246.7%
13Extracurricular Activities1273110422.1%
16Median Teacher Salary56,4402761,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

The Hope Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Hope Township, in Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3][4][5]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 131 students and 18.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.0:1.[1] In the 2016-17 school year, the district was tied for the 30th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state.[6]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-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.[7]

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Belvidere High School, together with students from Harmony Township Belvidere, New Jersey and White Township, as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Belvidere School District.[3][8] As of the 2020–21 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 367 students and 32.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1.[9]

  1. ^ a b c d District information for Hope Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  2. ^ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ^ a b 2023–2024 Public School Directory, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed March 1, 2024.
  4. ^ School Performance Reports for the Hope Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.
  5. ^ New Jersey School Directory for Hope Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  6. ^ 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.... 30. Hope Township (tie) - Enrollment: 155; Grades: Pre-K-8; County: Warren"
  7. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 7, 2014.
  8. ^ Belvidere High School 2016 Report Card Narrative Archived August 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed August 7, 2017. "The District serves students from the Belvidere K-12 district and three surrounding K-8 districts; Hope, Harmony, and White. "
  9. ^ School data for Belvidere High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 15, 2022.