As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of nine schools, had an enrollment of 5,107 students and 433.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1.[1]
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "A", the lowest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From the lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[7]
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In 2013 Woodbine School District chose to change its receiving high school district from Millville district to Middle Township School District, which meant it would begin sending high school students to Middle Township High School instead of the Millville high schools. Lynda Anderson-Towns, superintendent of the Woodbine district, cited the closer proximity and smaller size of Middle Township High.[11] Millville is 20 miles (32 km) away from Woodbine while Middle Township High is 12 miles (19 km) from Woodbine.[12]
Starting in the 1960s, grades 9-10 had been served in Memorial High School and grades 9-12 at Millville Senior High School.[13]
R. D. Wood Elementary School, which opened in 1915 and therefore at the time was the oldest school in the district, was closed at the end of the 2017-18 school year. The closure was estimated to result in savings of $1.8 million annually.[14] At one time, Thunderbolt Academy leased space at the ex-St. Mary Magdalen Regional School building, but in 2017 the district announced it would move it into the former Wood elementary building, which meant the district would save $50,000 each year.[14]
As part of an expansion and renovation project overseen by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority that ultimately cost $145 million and had been scheduled to start in 2017, the school's size and capacity was doubled to accommodate up to 2,300 students, allowing all of the freshmen and sophomore classes that had been at Memorial High School to be consolidated at the Senior High School building; for the 2017–18 school year, all high school students were shifted temporarily into Millville High School.[15][16] The completion of the project was marked in September 2023, which ultimately doubled the size of the building and added 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) of space to the facility that had opened in 1964 to replace the original high school building that was completed in 1925.[17]
Thunderbolt Academy[38] is a partnership between Millville Public Schools and Camelot Education. Camelot offers an alternative setting for students facing behavioral, emotional or academic challenges.
Richard Davidson, business administrator and board secretary[44]
Board of education
The district's board of education, comprised 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; there is one representative from Commercial Township and one from Lawrence Township, who represent those communities about issues related to their sending relationship at the high school. 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.[45][46][47]
^Millville Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Millville Public Schools. Accessed March 26, 2022. "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 twelve in the Millville School District. Composition: The Millville School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Millville."
^What We Do: History, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed March 1, 2022. "In 1998, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in the Abbott v. Burke case that the State must provide 100 percent funding for all school renovation and construction projects in special-needs school districts. According to the Court, aging, unsafe and overcrowded buildings prevented children from receiving the "thorough and efficient" education required under the New Jersey Constitution.... Full funding for approved projects was authorized for the 31 special-needs districts, known as 'Abbott Districts'."
^About Us, Maurice River Township School District. Accessed August 24, 2014. "The Maurice River Township School District consists of one elementary school and is a sending district to the Millville School District for its high school students.... Maurice River Township transports approximately 180 students to the Memorial and Senior High Schools in Millville."
^Lowe, Claire. "School officials celebrate as $137M Millville High School expansion underway", The Press of Atlantic City, February 8, 2019. Accessed July 9, 2020. "It's been decades since the freshmen at Millville High School attended the same building as the juniors and seniors, but in a little more than two years, that will change.... The multiphase, $137.5 million project funded through the New Jersey Schools Development Authority will renovate and update the aging and overcrowded building, and bring unity to the high school, Gentile said. In all, the project will include 230,000 square feet of additions and 55,000 square feet of renovations, according to the SDA."
^ abSmith, Joseph P. "Millville closing R.D. Wood Elementary to save money", The Daily Journal, March 17, 2017. Accessed July 9, 2020. "The city school system is dropping a budget ax on its oldest institution — R.D. Wood Elementary School.... Gentile told The Daily Journal the district faces a 2017-18 budget gap of about $3 million based on its current anticipation of state aid. Closing Wood School would save a little more than $1.8 million, including transportation costs."
^Smith, Joseph P. "Millville planners get look at high school expansion", The Daily Journal, March 15, 2016. "Schematic designs submitted to New Jersey for a proposed $110 million Millville Senior High School expansion were laid out before city planners Monday night.... On completion, the district will be able to consolidate at the senior high all freshman classes and those sophomore classes now in Memorial High School.... Additional space will allow the student population to increase from 1,200 now, approximately, to about 2,300."
^Smith, Joseph P. "First look Wednesday at Millville senior high expansion proposals", The Daily Journal, February 8, 2017. Accessed December 10, 2017. "Companies interested in taking on a pending Millville Senior High School expansion and renovation project submitted their technical proposals, as well as sealed pricing bids, on Wednesday afternoon to the New Jersey Schools Development Authority. The authority and Millville intend to start the multiyear project in mid-2017 after graduation. Students will be present during portions of the construction, though, since the estimated $110 million project should last into 2020.... The senior high will become a freshman class through senior class campus once the work is finished."
^Conklin, Eric. "Millville High School overhaul brings new era for students, officials say", The Press of Atlantic City, September 24, 2023. Accessed February 4, 2024. "After years of patience, a more than $140 million transformation of Millville High School is over. Officials on Thursday celebrated the project’s completion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside the doorway leading into the school’s new auditorium. The four-phase renovation began in 2018.... More than 200,000 square feet of additions and about 55,000 square feet of renovations were implemented at the building on North Wade Boulevard. The project increased the school’s size to about 375,000 square feet.... The original high school opened in 1964, replacing a building built in 1925, Superintendent Tony Trongone told the ceremony’s roughly 30 attendees."
^About the District, Millville Public Schools. Accessed January 8, 2024. "Millville Public Schools is a public school district serving the students of the City of Millville (grades Pre-K to 12) and the Townships of Commercial, Maurice River, and Lawrence (grades 9-12)."
^Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the Millville School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2022. Accessed January 8, 2024. "The Millville Board of Education (hereafter referred to as the 'School District') is a Type II district located in the County of Cumberland, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the School District functions independently through a Board of Education. The Board is comprised of nine members elected to three-year terms. These terms are staggered so that three member's terms expire each year. The purpose of the School District is to educate students in grades preschool through twelfth at the School District's ten schools"
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