The Stockton Borough School District was a community

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that served students in pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade from Stockton, in

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, United States. As of the 2014-15 school year, the school is part of the

South Hunterdon Regional School District South Hunterdon Regional School District is a regional public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten though twelfth grades from three communities in southern Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. The district was established ...

, which also serves students from Lambertville and

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. The school's student body of 43 made it the smallest operating school district in the State of New Jersey. Established in 1872, the district operated the oldest three-room schoolhouse in the state still in use, the District No. 98 Schoolhouse. In a special election held in September 2013, voters from Lambertville, Stockton and West Amwell Township passed referendums to dissolve (and recreate) the

and to combine the three existing K-6 school districts from each municipality (

Lambertville City School District The Lambertville City School District is a defunct community public school district that served students in preschool through sixth grade from Lambertville, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2014-15 school year, the scho ...

, Stockton Borough School District and

West Amwell Township School District The West Amwell Township School District was a community public school district that served students in pre-Kindergarten through sixth grade from West Amwell Township, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. The district's school is now par ...

), with majorities in each community passing both ballot items. A single combined regional district would be created, serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade, in which property taxes would be levied under a formula in which 57% is based on property values and 43% on the number of students. The executive county superintendent will appoint an interim board of education for the new regional district, which will be responsible for implementing the merger. As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 43 students and 4.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 8.96:1.District information for Stockton School District

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. Accessed December 9, 2014. The district was classified by the

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as being in

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"FG", the fourth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common

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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 seventh through twelfth grades attended the

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in Lambertville, part of the South Hunterdon Regional High School District, which also serves students from Lambertville and

attend South Hunterdon Regional High School.

School

The Stockton Borough School had an enrollment of 43 students as of the 2011-12 school year. The Stockton School, founded in 1832, closed its doors after the 2017-2018 school year and its students were consolidated among the South Hunterdon Regional School District's two other elementary schools, Lambertville Public School and West Amwell School.

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:New Jersey School Directory
,

. Accessed October 15, 2013. *Suzanne Ivans, Chief School Administrator *Kris Nenna, Board Secretary *Gary Johnston, Business Administrator

References

External links

Stockton Borough School
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School Data for the Stockton Borough School

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