Winfield Township School District

Winfield Township School District
Front of Winfield School, the only school in the district
Address
7 1/2 Gulfstream Avenue
, Union County, New Jersey, 07036
United States
Coordinates40°37′55″N 74°15′19″W / 40.631995°N 74.255204°W / 40.631995; -74.255204
District information
GradesPreK to 8
SuperintendentRoss LeBrun
Business administratorDanielle Tarvin-Griffith
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment137 (as of 2022–23)
Faculty18.1 FTEs
Student–teacher ratio7.6:1
Other information
District Factor GroupB
Websitewww.winfieldschool.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending
Rank
(*)
K-8
average
 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$17,96433$18,891−4.9%
1Budgetary Cost15,2063614,1597.4%
2Classroom Instruction9,505428,6599.8%
6Support Services2,248282,1673.7%
8Administrative Cost1,428131,547−7.7%
10Operations & Maintenance1,856421,61215.1%
13Extracurricular Activities1704110463.5%
16Median Teacher Salary59,0464061,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.
*Of K-8 districts with up to 400 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=71

The Winfield Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten to eighth grade from Winfield Township in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 137 students and 18.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.6:1. In the 2016–17 school year, Winfield had the 19th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 140 students.

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.

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend David Brearley High School in Kenilworth, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Kenilworth Public Schools. As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 757 students and 63.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1.

Before the current sending relationship had been established with Brearley, students had attended Rahway High School until a decision by the New Jersey Department of Education in March 2000 allowed for termination of the relationship.