Buena Regional School District

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Buena Regional School District
914 Main Avenue
Richland, NJ 08350
District information
Grades pre-K to 12
Superintendent Walt Whitaker
Business administrator Andrew Eubanks (interim)
Schools 6
Students and staff
Enrollment 2,356 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 163.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 14.45:1
Other information
District Factor Group A
Website www.buena.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-12
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1A Total Spending $19,128 51 $18,891 1.3%
1 Budgetary Cost 13,750 36 14,783 -7.0%
2 Classroom Instruction 8,004 29 8,763 -8.7%
6 Support Services 2,372 51 2,392 -0.8%
8 Administrative Cost 1,491 31 1,485 0.4%
10 Operations & Maintenance 1,515 27 1,783 -15.0%
13 Extracurricular Activities 358 26 268 33.6%
16 Median Teacher Salary 64,296 40 64,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with 1,800-3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=68

The Buena Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from three communities in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. Municipalities served by the district are Buena Borough and Buena Vista Township. Students from Newfield, a non-operating school district, attend the district's schools for K-12 as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Students are sent to the district's high school for grades 9 - 12 from both Estell Manor City and Weymouth Township as part of sending/receiving relationships with the respective school districts.[3][4]

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 2,356 students and 163.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.45:1.[1]

The district is 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.[5]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[6]) are:[7]

Elementary schools
  • Collings Lakes Elementary School[8] (now grades PreK-3, was K-5; 261 students)
    • Daniel J. Benedetto - Principal
  • John C. Milanesi Elementary School[9] (now PreK-3, was PreK-5, 447)
    • Anna Bettini - Principal
  • Dr. J.P. Cleary Elementary School[10] (opened in September 2012 for grades 4-5)
    • Dr. Shelly Ward Richards - Principal
Middle school
  • Buena Regional Middle School[11] (507; 6-8)
    • Karen M. Santoro - Principal
    • Richard Lawrence - Vice Principal
High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[13]

  • Walter Whitaker, Superintendent[14]
  • Andrew Eubanks, Interim Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for Buena Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Buena Regional School District 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 17, 2015. "The Buena Regional Schools offer a Pre-K through Grade 12 learning opportunity for the children of the Buena Vista Township and the Buena Borough communities as well as grade 9 through 12 experiences for the students of Estell Manor and Weymouth Townships."
  4. ↑ About Us, Buena Regional School District. Accessed November 27, 2014. "Students from Weymouth and Estell Manor join students from Buena Vista Township, Buena Borough, and Newfield at the high school."
  5. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ School Data for the Buena Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Buena Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 27, 2014.
  8. ↑ Collings Lakes Elementary School, Buena Regional School District. Accessed November 27, 2014.
  9. ↑ John C. Milanesi Elementary School, Buena Regional School District. Accessed November 27, 2014.
  10. ↑ Dr. J.P. Cleary Elementary School, Buena Regional School District. Accessed November 27, 2014.
  11. ↑ Buena Regional Middle School, Buena Regional School District. Accessed November 27, 2014.
  12. ↑ Buena Regional High School, Buena Regional School District. Accessed November 27, 2014.
  13. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Atlantic County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 27, 2014.
  14. ↑ Superintendent, Buena Regional School District. Accessed November 27, 2014.

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