Estell Manor School District


Estell Manor School District is a community public school district in Estell Manor, New Jersey, United States, serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 182 students and 14.9 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1. In the 2016–17 school year, Estell Manor was the 36th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 172 students.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education 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.
For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students attend Buena Regional High School, which serves students from Buena Borough and Buena Vista Township, together with students from Estell Manor City and Weymouth Township who attend the school as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Buena Regional School District. As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 565 students and 52.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1.
City public school students are also eligible to attend the Atlantic County Institute of Technology in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township or the Charter-Tech High School for the Performing Arts, located in Somers Point.
In 2013-2016, under Superintendent Noëlle Jacquelin, the district had a 0% tax increase for three consecutive years. Voters passed a multimillion-dollar building project referendum, and the district was awarded an $800,000 grant from the New Jersey Schools Development Authority to cover project costs.

Awards and recognition

Estelle Manor School was named as a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve, in the 1994-95 school year
The district received "High Achieving" district status during the New Jersey Department of Education's QSAC evaluation.

School

Core members of the district's administration are:
The district's board of education, with five members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats up for election each year held as part of the November general election.