Avalon School District
Avalon School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Avalon, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Based on data from the 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending prepared by the New Jersey Department of Education, the Avalon district's total per pupil spending of $43,775 was the highest of any regular school district.
| Avalon School District | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Avalon Elementary School and Free Public Library | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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235 32nd Street
, Cape May County, 08202 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39.095134°N 74.724706°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Grades | PreK-8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Superintendent | Kathleen Fox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business administrator | Linda Fiori | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Schools | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Enrollment | 83 (as of 2022–23) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Faculty | 12.2 FTEs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Student–teacher ratio | 6.8:1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| District Factor Group | FG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starting with the 2011-12 school year, in an agreement with the Stone Harbor School District, public school students in grades K-4 from both communities attend school at Stone Harbor Elementary School in Stone Harbor while all students in PreK and in grades 5-8 attend school in Avalon as part of a reciprocal sending/receiving relationship.
As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 83 students and 12.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.8:1. In the 2016–17 school year, Avalon had the smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 43 students.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-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.
Students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades attend Middle Township High School in Cape May Court House, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Middle Township Public Schools, together with students from Avalon, Dennis Township, Stone Harbor and Woodbine. As of the 2022–23 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 790 students and 65.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1.