Commercial Township School District
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| Commercial Township School District | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1308 North Avenue
, Cumberland County, New Jersey, 08349United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°16′56″N 75°01′27″W / 39.282118°N 75.024196°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Grades | K-8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Superintendent | Jean Smith | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business administrator | Darren Harris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Schools | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Enrollment | 488 (as of 2023–24)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Faculty | 42.0 FTEs[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Student–teacher ratio | 11.6:1[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| District Factor Group | A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | commercialschools | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Commercial Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Commercial Township, in Cumberland 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 488 students and 42.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.6:1.[1]
The district had been 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.[6]
Students in ninth through twelfth grades for public school attend Millville High School in Millville, together with students from Lawrence Township and Maurice River Township, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Millville Public Schools.[7][8] As of the 2023–24 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,655 students and 81.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 20.4:1.[9]
In the era of de jure educational segregation in the United States the district maintained separate schools on the basis of race. In 1948 this persisted; the Journal of Negro Education that year wrote that the elementary school for black students "is in very bad condition", citing water and snow coming in from a roof in poor condition.[10]
With student enrollment falling, the district closed Port Norris Middle School during the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, a facility which had been open since 1916. All district students were consolidated into Commercial Township School, which had previously been known as Haleyville-Mauricetown Elementary School.[11]
Schools
Commercial Township School serves students in grades K-8 and had an enrollment of 482 students in the 2023–24 school year.[12]
