Roxbury School District

Roxbury School District
42 N. Hillside Avenue
Succasunna, NJ 07876
District information
Grades K-12
Superintendent Dr. Patrick Tierney
Business administrator John Gomez
Schools 7
Students and staff
Enrollment 3,742 (as of 2013-14)[1]
Faculty 322.7 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 11.6:1
Other information
District Factor Group GH
Website http://www.roxbury.org
Ind. Per pupil District
spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-12
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$18,98361$18,8910.5%
1Budgetary Cost14,9046014,7830.8%
2Classroom Instruction8,904618,7631.6%
6Support Services2,343532,392-2.0%
8Administrative Cost1,287261,485-13.3%
10Operations & Maintenance1,769641,783-0.8%
13Extracurricular Activities3999826848.9%
16Median Teacher Salary62,6923864,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with more than 3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=103

The Roxbury School District is a community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade in Roxbury Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2013-14 school year, the district's seven schools had an enrollment of 3,742 students and 322.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.6:1.[1]

The district's high school serves students from Roxbury, as well as those from Mount Arlington, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[3]

The district is 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.[4]

Schools

Schools in the district consists of the following (with 2013-14 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[5]) are:[6][7]

Elementary schools
Middle schools
High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[15][16]

School policies

The Roxbury School District Board of Education requires that all students stand while the Pledge of Allegiance is being recited. The school makes use of 'Moments of Silence'.

Controversies

Discipline of board member

In April 2011, an administrative law judge ruled that the Roxbury Board of Education acted outside of its authority when it censured Maureen Castriotta, a school board member. Castriotta had differed with other school board members about spending priorities and had protested against a student protest organized by Superintendent Michael Rossi and High School Principal Jeffrey Swanson against funding cuts proposed by Governor Chris Christie. The ALJ vacated the censure, as the matter should have been decided by the School Ethics Commission, rather than by a school board that denied Castriotta's due process.[17] At a June 2010 town hall meeting, Christie supported Castriotta's right to "speak up," and he asked the audience if school administrators would have allowed a student rally that was against the New Jersey Education Association, the state's largest teacher's union.[18]

Employee theft

In April 2015, the lead mechanic for the Roxbury school district’s transportation department stole about 1,900 gallons of fuel from the district, used some for himself and sold some to others, according to authorities. The mechanic, Matthew Hofgesang, 47, admitted taking the fuel, valued at about $8,150 between June 2014 and March 7, said the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office. It said Hofgesang appeared before Superior Court Judge Stuart Minkowitz, who sentenced him to one year of probation, ordered he pay back the school district and directed that he forfeit his “public employment in the State of New Jersey.” Hofgesang had been charged with one count of theft, a disorderly person’s offense. His case came as part of an investigation into improprieties at the transportation department. On Monday, the director of that department, Thomas Cunningham, submitted his resignation to the Roxbury Board of Education.[19]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Roxbury Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ O'Dea, Colleen. "State orders impact study of school regionalization", Daily Record (Morristown), November 23, 2008. Accessed January 30, 2011. "Mount Arlington, K-8, sends its high school students to Roxbury, K-12."
  4. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  5. ↑ School Data for Roxbury School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ School Directory, Roxbury School District. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  7. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Roxbury School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  8. ↑ Franklin Elementary School, Roxbury School District. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  9. ↑ Jefferson Elementary School, Roxbury School District. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  10. ↑ Kennedy Elementary School, Roxbury School District. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  11. ↑ Nixon Elementary School, Roxbury School District. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  12. ↑ Lincoln / Roosevelt School, Roxbury School District. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  13. ↑ Eisenhower Middle School, Roxbury School District. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  14. ↑ Roxbury High School, Roxbury School District. Accessed March 7, 2015.
  15. ↑ Central Office Administration, Roxbury School District. Accessed December 20, 2015.
  16. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Morris County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 23, 2015.
  17. ↑ Goldberg, Dan. "Judge rules against Roxbury school board in censuring member for criticizing principal, superintendent", The Star-Ledger, April 7, 2011. Accessed December 20, 2015. "An administrative law judge ruled that the Roxbury Board of Education acted outside its authority when it censured board member Maureen Castriotta last May for her criticisms of the high school principal and superintendent.Castriotta, who has often clashed with other board members over spending, had objected to the administration’s decision to allow high school students to protest Gov. Chris Christie’s cuts to education funding."
  18. ↑ Staff. "Christie criticizes Roxbury school district for censuring board member", The Star-Ledger, June 11, 2010. Accessed December 20, 2015.
  19. ↑ https://www.tapinto.net/towns/roxbury/articles/roxbury-school-mechanic-stole-and-sold-fuel-fro
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