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The Absecon Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Absecon, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 816 students and 69.00 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 11.83.[1] The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth 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.[2] For grades 9-12, public school students from Absecon attend the Pleasantville High School in Pleasantville as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Pleasantville Public Schools, with students also eligible to attend the Atlantic County Institute of Technology and Charter-Tech High School for the Performing Arts.[3]
Schools Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics.[4]) are: - Elementary School
- Middle School
Administration Core members of the district's administration are:[5] - James A. Giaquinto - Superintendent of Schools[6]
- Tina Davisson - Business Administrator / Board Secretary[7]
Board of education - William A. Thompson, III - President
- Thomas J. Grites, Ph.D. - Vice President
- Mike Assad
- Keith Bennett
- Alex Corkhill
- Mary K. Hughes
- Gerald Heones[8]
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