The Deal School District is a community

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that serves students in

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through eighth grade from

Deal A deal, or deals may refer to: Places United States * Deal, New Jersey, a borough * Deal, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * Deal Lake, New Jersey Elsewhere * Deal Island (Tasmania), Australia * Deal, Kent, a town in England * Deal, ...

, in Monmouth County,

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, United States. The school was established in September 1953. As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 169 students and 17.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.9:1.District information for Deal Boro School District
National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020. In the 2016–17 school year, Deal had the 35th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 165 students. As a participant in the

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, 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. 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,

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, Ocean Township, Red Bank and Belmar.Martin, Patti
"At 50, Deal School still looks familiar"
'' Asbury Park Press'', May 22, 2003. Accessed July 21, 2008. 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. For ninth through

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s, students attend

Shore Regional High School Shore Regional High School is a regional public high school and school district serving students from four communities in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The high school serves students from the constituent municipalities of Monmo ...

, as part of a

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. As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 649 students and 57.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1. The relationship with Shore Regional succeeds a previous agreement under which students from deal attended

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in neighboring

as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the

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School

Deal School served an enrollment of 169 students in grades K–8 as of the 2018–19 school year.

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are: *Donato J. Saponaro Sr., Superintendent of Schools *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.Williams, Carol Gorga
"Long Branch educator takes on Deal school"
'' Asbury Park Press'', August 7, 2014. Accessed August 20, 2014. "The school board recently approved a $165,000 annual salary for Salvatore in a contract that expires in June 2019. Salvatore, however, will pick up an additional $10,000 a year as the superintendent for the Deal school district."

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 day-to-day operation of the district.Board of Education
Deal School District. Accessed February 20, 2020.

References

External links

Deal School District
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School Data for the Deal School District
National Center for Education Statistics {{Monmouth County, New Jersey School Districts Deal, New Jersey 1953 establishments in New Jersey School districts established in 1953 New Jersey District Factor Group none School districts in Monmouth County, New Jersey Public K–8 schools in New Jersey