Kenilworth Public Schools

The Kenilworth Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from the borough of Kenilworth, in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Kenilworth Public Schools
Address
426 Boulevard Kenilworth , Union County, New Jersey, 07033 United States
Coordinates	40.6761°N 74.2954°W / 40.6761; -74.2954
District information
Grades	PreK-12
Superintendent	Jeremy Davies
Business administrator	Vincent A. Gonnella
Schools	3
Students and staff
Enrollment	1,473 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty	135.3 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	10.9:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	DE
Website	www.kenilworthschools.com
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $17,375 20 $18,891 −8.0% 1 Budgetary Cost 13,535 22 14,783 −8.4% 2 Classroom Instruction 8,489 28 8,763 −3.1% 6 Support Services 1,844 14 2,392 −22.9% 8 Administrative Cost 1,400 7 1,485 −5.7% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,333 9 1,783 −25.2% 13 Extracurricular Activities 443 29 268 65.3% 16 Median Teacher Salary 65,218 38 64,043 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of K-12 districts with up to 1,800 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=49

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, then comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 1,473 students and 135.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1.^[1]

The district participates in the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program at David Brearley High School, having been approved on November 2, 1999, as one of the first ten districts statewide to participate in the program.^[3][4] Available slots are announced annually by grade.^[5] Each school year, slots are made available by grade and a lottery is used to select attendees if there are more applicants than available slots. Prospective Choice participants must be residents of Union County eligible for placement in grades 7-10 who were enrolled in a public school during the full year prior to entry to the Kenilworth Public Schools.^[6]

Students from Winfield Township attend David Brearley High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Winfield Township School District.^[7]

The district had been 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.^[8]

Schools

Schools in the district are:^[9][10]

Elementary school

• Warren G. Harding Elementary School^[11] with students in grades PreK-5
  • Ronald Bubnowski, principal

Middle school

• David Brearley Middle School^[12] with students in grades 6-8
  • Madelyn Pavelchak, principal

High school

• David Brearley High School^[13] with students in grades 9-12
  • John Perillo, principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[14][15]

• Jeremy Davies, superintendent of schools
• Vincent A. Gonnella, business administrator and board secretary

Former superintendent Thomas Tramaglini resigned from his position effective September 2018, after he had been arrested for an incident in which he had been charged with defecating at the athletic fields at Holmdel High School. Marilyn Birnbaum was hired to serve as superintendent, acting on an interim basis until Kyle Arlington took over on a permanent basis in February 2019.^[16]

Board of education

The district's board of education, composed of nine 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 three 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.^[17][18][19]