The Phillipsburg School District is a comprehensive public school district in Phillipsburg, in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from a population of 16,000 people and an area of 3.2 square miles (8.3Â km2) in Phillipsburg and other neighboring communities along the Delaware River. The district is one of 31 Abbott districts statewide, which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its seven schools had an enrollment of 3,008 students and 323.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a studentâ€"teacher ratio of 9.3:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "B", the second-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.
The district's high school serves students from the Town of Phillipsburg and from five sending communities at the secondary level: Alpha, Bloomsbury (in Hunterdon County), Greenwich Township, Lopatcong Township and Pohatcong Township, as part of sending/receiving relationships with the respective school districts.
Schools
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Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
- Early childhood
- Early Childhood Learning Center (Grades PreK-K; 501 students)
- Elementary schools
- Phillipsburg Primary School (1&2; consolidated from Barber with 216 and Freeman with 208)
- Phillipsburg Elementary School (3-5; consolidated from Andover with 259 and Green with 360)
- Middle school
- Phillipsburg Middle School (6-8; 548)
- High schools
- Phillipsburg High School (9-12; 1,631). The Phillipsburg High School Stateliners have an athletic rivalry with neighboring Easton, Pennsylvania's Easton Area High School, which celebrated its 100th anniversary game on Thanksgiving Day 2006. In 2009, the 1993 teams from the Easton P-Burg Game met again for the Gatorade REPLAY Game to resolve the game, which ended in a 7-7 tie, with more than 13,000 fans watching as Phillipsburg won by a score of 27-12.
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
- Gregory Troxell, Superintendent
- Staci Horne, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
References
External links
- Phillipsburg School District
- Phillipsburg School District's 2015â€"16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Phillipsburg School District, National Center for Education Statistics
