Farmingdale School District

{{short description|School district in Monmouth County, New Jersey, US}}

{{Use American English|date=November 2022}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}}

{{Infobox school district

| name = Farmingdale School District

| superintendent = Edith Conroy

| businessadmin = Ronald Sanasac

| address = 49 Academy Street

| city = Farmingdale

| county = Monmouth County

| state = New Jersey

| zipcode = 07727

| country = United States

| coordinates = {{coord|40.198505|-74.171479|region:US_type:edu|display=inline,title}}

| grades = PreK-8

| schools = 1

| enrollment = 163 (as of 2022–23)

| faculty = 24.0 FTEs

| ratio = 6.8:1

| free_label = District Factor Group

| free_text = DE

| website = {{URL|https://farmingdaleschool.com}}

| module = {{New Jersey school district spending table|embed=yes

| year = 2014

| graderange = K-8

| enrollrange = up to 400

| rangecount = 71

| indAdist = 17995| indArank = 34| indAavg = 18891

| ind1dist = 15453| ind1rank = 40| ind1avg = 14159

| ind2dist = 9353| ind2rank = 39| ind2avg = 8659

| ind6dist = 2602| ind6rank = 41| ind6avg = 2167

| ind8dist = 1707| ind8rank = 42| ind8avg = 1547

| ind10dist = 1712| ind10rank = 33| ind10avg = 1612

| ind13dist = 32| ind13rank = 10| ind13avg = 104

| ind16dist = 49801| ind16rank = 8| ind16avg = 61136

}}

}}

The Farmingdale School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Farmingdale in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=99cced1b6c3d42cf98f7dc16673273dc Farmingdale Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Farmingdale School District. Accessed May 15, 2025. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through eight in the Farmingdale School District. Composition: The Farmingdale School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the Borough of Farmingdale."[https://co.monmouth.nj.us/page.aspx?Id=237 County School List E-G], Monmouth County, New Jersey. Accessed May 15, 2024.[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/25/1490 School Performance Reports for the Farmingdale Public School District], New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/1490 New Jersey School Directory for the Farmingdale School District], New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 163 students and 24.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.8:1.[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3405130&DistrictID=3405130 District information for Farmingdale Public School District], National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024. In the 2016–17 school year, Farmingdale had the 34th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 161 students.Guion, Payton. [https://www.nj.com/education/2017/09/njs_smallest_school_districts.html "These 43 N.J. school districts have fewer than 200 students"], NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, September 2017. Accessed January 30, 2020. "Based on data from the state Department of Education from the last school year and the Census Bureau, NJ Advance Media made a list of the smallest of the small school districts in the state, excluding charter schools and specialty institutions.... 34. Farmingdale Borough - Enrollment: 161; Grades: Pre-K-8; County: Monmouth"

The district is 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.[http://www.state.nj.us/education/finance/rda/dfg.shtml NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts], New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 7, 2014.

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Howell High School, together with students from portions of Howell.[https://www.frhsd.com/cms/lib8/NJ01912687/Centricity/Domain/4/Attendance%20Boundaries.pdf FRHSD Attendance Boundaries; Which High School Will My Child Attend?], Freehold Regional High School District. Accessed May 15, 2024. The school is part of the Freehold Regional High School District, which also serves students from Colts Neck Township, Englishtown, Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Manalapan Township and Marlboro.[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/1516/25/1650/000.html Freehold Regional High School District 2016 Report Card Narrative] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210072033/https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/1516/25/1650/000.html |date=2017-12-10 }}, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 9, 2017. "The Freehold Regional High School District, the largest regional high school District in New Jersey, has six high schools with over 11,000 students and over 1,500 employees and spans 200 square miles. District members include the townships of Colts Neck, Freehold, Howell, Manalapan, and Marlboro, and the boroughs of Englishtown, Farmingdale, and Freehold." As of the 2022–23 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 2,011 students and 133.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.1:1.[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3405610&ID=340561003800 School data for Howell High School], National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.