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TRENTON - cape May County bucked the statewide trend to declining school enrollment in the 1970-80 period, but had the smallest pupil-teacher ratio in 1980. reporte the New Jersey Taxpayers Assn. Overall enrollment in the public schools declined abut 13 peront in the 10 years, the gWemmental research organization says. At the same time, the average number of pOpils per teacher was dropping. WHILE THF f RE ARE several different ways for counting. . school enrollment, for state school • aid / purposes the state counts r««idem enrollment ' — pupils who were enrolled in the public schools ont he last day of September of each school year, and reside in the district and -attend school where they reside or go to some other school to which the district of residence pays tuition. A district enrollment figure counts only school pupils enrolled in the public schools of thedistrict. Using the district enrollment measure, total district' enrollments by bounty declined in 17 of 21 counties between 1970 and 1980 with Bergen County registering the largest pupil drop, followed by Unitfn and Middlesex. Counties in wh\ch the total member of pupils in->. creased in the period were Ocean, Sussex, Cape May and Hunterdon. DURING THE . same period of overall declining enrollments, the number of classroom teachers had been increasing. On a countywide basis, only two

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counties showed fewer classroom teachers in 1980 than in fSTTO - Bergen and Union, both of which hid enrollment declines. The other 19 counties showed •» teacher increases although in only four did overall enrollnients increase. Relating the enrollment to number of teachers produces a pupil-teacher ration which in evry county, including those two .with enrollment declines, is significantly lower in 1980

than in 1970.

Statewide the pupilteacher ratio in 1980 was 16.1, a decrease of more than 5 pupils or one-fourth from the 21.5 ratio in 1970. This compares to the national average pupilteacher ratio in 1980 of 18.5 reported by the National Center for Educational

Statistics.

PUPIL-TEACHER ratios for 1980 ranged frorrfl4.6

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General Fund and personal income tax provided $1.6 billion for various state education aid programs in Fiscal Year 1961.. CLASS SIZE should be examined for all classes in . a district and related to the quality of education^ the class and district. Much has been written about-the long-standing controversy over class size and teaching effectiveness with varying evidence offered on both skies. In these da)s of everincreasing tax burdens, the costs versus the benefits of k small classes must be considered locally to ascertain what taxpayers can reasonably afford, suggests NJTA.

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in^atfe May to 17.3 in Oc«m County. In 1970 the

county -with the smallest ratio was Bergen County, 20.1, while the county with the largest t'atio was Cumberla nd With 24.1. Examination of similar figures on a district basis within a county will vary. County and State figures are an indication of trends. The figures are presented because of concern / expressed in many municipalities of constantly rising property taxes which are the main revenue source of most New Jersey school districts. Statewide, propferty taxes for publii schools reuired $2.1 billion, over 54 jgreent of total local property taxes billed in 1980 compared wifh a $2.3 billion total in 1961, resuming an upward swing at a rate ever! greater than from 1975 to W6, the preincome l tax year. The state’s taxes from the

N. CAPE MAY - The Lower Township Rotary V, Club is searching for a candidate to attend its District Rotary Youth Leadership Conference at Stbcktpn State College this summer

June 20-June 25

Charles McCarty, local committee chairperson, said' that the participant will be selected from young men and young women who

t-have exhibited leadership

abilities and who will be entering their senior year of high school in th« fall. The Rotary’Club is now contacting^high school guidance counselors, for

ie<jtQminations of- a •con1,. renence particif>ant, from

il Lower .Townihift

d Anyone interested in oba taining mflSrmatioh should

contact Ch&rles McCarty at Cape May City Elementary School (884-8485) or

t any otjier member of the

Lower Township Rotary

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