The Lacey Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district

School district

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 serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Lacey Township

Lacey Township, New Jersey

Lacey Township is a Township in Ocean County, New Jersey and is considered part of the Jersey Shore region. As of the United States 2010 Census, the township population had increased to a record high of 27,644...

, in Ocean County

Ocean County, New Jersey

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 510,916 people, 200,402 households, and 137,876 families residing in the county. The population density was 803 people per square mile . There were 248,711 housing units at an average density of 151/km²...

, New Jersey

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, along the state's Jersey Shore

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 region.

As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 4,846 students and 364.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.3.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education

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 as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth 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.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

Elementary Schools

• Cedar Creek School (K-4; 650 students)
  • Jackie Ranuska, principal
• Forked River School (K-4; 492)
  • Eric Fiedler, principal
• Lanoka Harbor School (K-4; 602)
  • Rosemarie Bond, principal
• Mill Pond School (5&6; 777)
  • Susan Gallagher, principal

Middle School

• Lacey Township Middle School (7&8; 769)
  • James Handschuch, principal

High School

• Lacey Township High School
  Lacey Township High School
  Lacey Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Lacey Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Lacey Township School District. The school opened its doors in September 1981. Residents of Lacey Township previously attended Central...
  
   serves students in grades 9-12 (1,556). Its symbol is a lion's paw, for the "Lacey Lions."
  • Will Zylinski, principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Richard P. Starodub, Superintendent
• James G. Savage, Jr., Business Administrator / Board Secretary
• Vanessa Clark, Assistant Superintendent
• Dr. William R. Lake Ed.D., Supervisor of Computer Education and Services

External links

• Lacey Township School District
• Data for the Lacey Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics
  National Center for Education Statistics
  The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...