Bloomsbury School District
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| Bloomsbury School District | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Bloomsbury Public School, the only school in the district | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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20 Main Street
, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 08804 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°39′25″N 75°04′55″W / 40.65682°N 75.081959°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Grades | PreK to 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Superintendent | Jenniffer Marycz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business administrator | Timothy Mantz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Schools | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Enrollment | 98 (as of 2023–24)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Faculty | 15.4 FTEs[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Student–teacher ratio | 6.4:1[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| District Factor Group | GH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | bburyes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Bloomsbury School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Bloomsbury, in Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3][4][5]
As of the 2023–24 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 98 students and 15.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.4:1.[1] In the 2016–17 school year, the district had the 11th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state.[6]
The district participates in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, having been approved on November 2, 1999, as one of the first ten districts statewide to participate in the program, which allows non-resident students to attend school in the district at no cost to their parents, with tuition covered by the resident district.[7] Available slots are announced annually by grade.[8]
Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Phillipsburg High School in Phillipsburg in Warren County, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Phillipsburg School District. The high school also serves students from four other sending communities: Alpha, Greenwich Township, Lopatcong Township and Pohatcong Township.[9][10][11] As of the 2023–24 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,799 students and 139.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1.[12]
In 2016, the district announced that it was pursuing a $30,000 study to consider merger / consolidation with the Greenwich Township School District in Warren County, citing the "financial instability" the Bloomsbury district faces based on the way the Phillipsburg district calculates the costs for students sent for high school. The notice to residents announcing the feasibility study stated that the Greenwich district was chosen based on the quality of its academic programs, shared superintendent and business administrator, proximity, financial stability and shared sending relationship with Phillipsburg for high school.[13]
The district had been classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-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.[14]
