The School District of the Chathams is a regional public school district serving students in kindergarten through 12th grade from Chatham Borough

Chatham Borough, New Jersey

Chatham is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 8,962.The village that now is Chatham first was settled by Europeans in 1710 in Morris Township, within the Province of New Jersey...

 and Chatham Township

Chatham Township, New Jersey

Chatham Township is a township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 10,452.Chatham Township was incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 12, 1806, from portions of Hanover Township and Morris Township, based on...

 in Morris County

Morris County, New Jersey

Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about west of New York City. According to the United States 2010 Census, the population was 492,276. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Morristown....

, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

, United States.

As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 3,952 students and 268 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...

 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.75.

Elections were held in both municipalities in November 1986 to consider joining the two towns' at the time disparate school systems into a regional district. This proposal was supported by the voters and since then, the two municipalities have shared a regionalized school district.

Schools

The School District of the Chathams includes the following schools (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

National Center for Education Statistics

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):

Type	School Name	Grades	Enrollment	Principal	Established
Primary School	Milton Avenue School	K - 3	371	Marion McCarthy
Primary School	Southern Boulevard School	K - 3	501	Ralph J. Pesapane
Primary School	Washington Avenue School	K - 3	446	Mary P. Quigley
Primary School	Lafayette School	4 & 5	636	Cheryl Caggiano	1995
Middle School	Chatham Middle School	6 - 8	888	Robert Accardi
High School	Chatham High School Chatham High School (New Jersey) Chatham High School is an American four-year comprehensive public high school located at 255 Lafayette Avenue in Chatham Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, operating as part of the School District of the Chathams. The school serves students in grades 9-12...	9 - 12	1,061	Darren Groh

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• James O'Neill, Superintendent
• Charles Milewski, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• School District of the Chathams website
• School District of the Chathams, National Center for Education Statistics
  National Center for Education Statistics
  The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...