The Deal School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Deal, in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]} The school was established in September 1953. ^[7]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 160 students and 19.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.2:1. ^[1] In the 2016–17 school year, Deal had the 35th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 165 students. ^[8]

As a participant in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, the majority of the district's students live outside of Deal, with 37 slots allocated for choice students in the 2014-15 school year, 20 of which were for Kindergarten students. ^[9] As of the 2002-03 school year, nearly 75% of students at Deal School attended from outside the district on a tuition basis, paying $4,300 per student, per year, with students coming from the neighboring communities of Loch Arbour, Asbury Park, Ocean Township, Red Bank and Belmar. ^[7] By the 2013-14 school year, nearly 90% of the district's enrollment was from choice students, for whom the state paid the district $12,500 in supplemental aid per student. ^[10]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students attend Shore Regional High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship. ^[11] As of the 2022–23 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 585 students and 52.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.1:1. ^[12]

History

Before establishing a relationship with Shore Regional, the district had a previous agreement under which students from deal attended Asbury Park High School in neighboring Asbury Park as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Asbury Park Public Schools. ^{[13] [14]}

School

Deal School served an enrollment of 159 students in grades K–8 as of the 2022–23 school year. ^[15]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are: ^{[16] [17]}

• Donato J. Saponaro Sr., superintendent of schools ^[18]
• Pia Lordi, business administrator

Michael Salvatore, superintendent of the Long Branch Public Schools, had overseen the Deal district under a shared services arrangement reached in August 2014 in which Salvatore was paid an additional $10,000 from Deal on top of his $165,000 base salary. ^[19]

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of 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 (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district. ^{[20] [21] [22]}

References

External links

• Deal School District
• School Performance Reports for the Deal School, New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Deal School District, National Center for Education Statistics