Welcome to the
Byram Township School District
12 Mansfield Drive, Stanhope, NJ 07874 973-347-1019
The Byram Township School District is governed by a seven-member board of education; the administrative team consists of a superintendent, two building principals, an assistant principal, a business administrator, a Child Study Team coordinator and a technology coordinator. Currently, there are two schools accommodating approximately 1200 Byram students. A new pre-K to 4 building opened in September, 2003. Most of Byram's students attend Lenape Valley Regional High School in neighboring Stanhope.
Byram Schools are avidly supported by constituent parents; the PTA is active; various school committees invite parental involvement. The mutually high expectations and the expressed value of a quality education create and sustain a child-centered, nurturing and pleasant working climate. The staff is experienced and professional with very little turnover. Given the increasing enrollment, efforts to reduce class size, and additional special education programming and approaching staff retirements, new personnel will continue to alter the educational landscape at Byram.
While Byram has historically enjoyed a relatively low cost per student, residential development, school construction and “meeting the needs of the Byram children” will impact significantly on annual budgets. Given the declining financial support at the state level and the absence of local commercial and industrial ratables, the residential homeowners bear an increasing tax burden to sponsor a high quality educational program.
Differentiating instruction, student assessments, technology integration, emerging special education classes, student scheduling and curricular alignment are a few of the imminent challenges in the Byram Township School District. Please reference our district web page at www.byramschools.org for further information.