Port Jervis City School District (PJCSD) is an American school district headquartered in Deerpark, New York, with a Port Jervis postal address. - Despite the "Port Jervis" postal address, the school is physically in Deerpark. Compare full address to the zoning map of Deerpark: Compare to the map of Port Jervis: The district runs four schools, 2 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and one high school. The district's students come from Port Jervis and sections of Deerpark, - including Sparrow Bush, in Orange County. It also serves sections of Forestburgh and Mamakating in Sullivan County.
History
In 2017, the school board decided to remove Tom Bongiovi as superintendent, with a severance of almost $299,262; Bongiovi left on July 25, 2017. By 2018, the school board had selected Mike Rydell as the new superintendent.
On July 19, 2022, Port Jervis City School District held a meeting where it named John Bell the new superintendent. Previously, Bell had served as the superintendent of the nearby Delaware Valley School District from 2012 to 2022. He also graduated from Port Jervis High School, The High School run by the district, in 1985.
Demographics From 1923, the Montague Township School District of Montague Township, New Jersey sent its high school-aged students to Port Jervis High School; the Montague district was the only New Jersey school district to send its students outside of New Jersey to complete certain grade levels. The district also sent middle school-aged students to Port Jervis Middle School. In 2013, the Montague district decided to begin sending its students to High Point Regional High School instead, effective September 2014. Some parents had sought to continue sending their children to Port Jervis High, so High Point officials were looking into possible agreements related to that. By 2017, all grade levels for high school students were to be sent to High Point.Montague Township School District 2015 District Narrative, New Jersey School Report Card. Accessed June 7, 2016. "In September 2014, the district began to transition incoming ninth grade students from the Port Jervis City School District in Port Jervis New York into High Point Regional School District in New Jersey. The transition of high school students into High Point Regional School District will be complete by 2017." The Montague District also began housing middle school students at the Montague School. - On the Montague School District site
As a result, the Port Jervis District was projected to lose $1,800,000 by 2018 towards lost tuition fees that were previously paid by Montague Township. The Port Jervis district planned to spread the impact of the tuition loss across several fiscal years. By 2016 the Montague district owed the Port Jervis district $441,327 in tuition, causing the latter to sue the former.
The district had stated in its 2019-2020 profile that "the community has a relatively low socioeconomic status".
In 2013, the district had 128 students enrolled at the secondary level who were from Montague Township, New Jersey.
Schools Port Jervis High School (Deerpark, with a Port Jervis postal address) - Despite the "Port Jervis" postal address, the school is physically in Deerpark. Compare full address to the zoning map of Deerpark: Compare to the map of Port Jervis: Port Jervis Middle School (Deerpark, with a Port Jervis postal address) - Despite the "Port Jervis" postal address, the school is physically in Deerpark.Compare full address to the zoning map of Deerpark: Compare to the map of Port Jervis: - It was formerly in what became East Main Elementary School; the elementary and middle school students began switching places in 2022. East Main Elementary School (Port Jervis) - The building opened circa 1922. Hamilton Bicentennial Elementary School (Cuddebackville, Deerpark)
The middle and high school are on the same property.
Former schools Previously Anna S. Kuhl Elementary School was on the Port Jervis HS property. In 2022 the district began the process of moving elementary school students to the former Port Jervis Middle School, while the middle school would move into the former elementary property.
Facilities The district's headquarters are on the secondary school property in Deerpark, within the middle school building. It was previously headquartered in Port Jervis city. In 2020 the district announced plans to move the headquarters into the new middle school.
References
External links Port Jervis City School District