District Mission Statement
The Andover Regional Schools prepare students to successfully meet the challenges of today and tomorrow by fostering a love of learning. Our safe, supportive, and stimulating environment encourages students to reach their full potential. It is an expectation that all students shall achieve the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards at all grade levels. In Andover Regional, every child catches the learning spirit!
District Goals for 2011-2012
School Climate
Promote the success of all students by emphasizing the development of the whole child, promoting health and wellness, citizenship and good character as well as academic excellence to advance public confidence in our schools.
Student Achievement
Promote the success of all students by engaging them in reliable, meaningful, and relevant
learning experiences that are rigorous and intentional by using Board-approved curricula, quality instructional strategies, and measurable assessments
to monitor and modify instruction to meet the needs of all students.
School & Community Relations
Promote the success of all students by
working with families and community groups to enhance learning in an effort to meet the intellectual, social, career, and developmental needs of students as a means to advance public confidence in our schools.
School Finance
Promote the success of all students by maintaining facilities and programs, maximizing shared-services opportunities, and addressing fiscal obligations by using, but not limited to the district's Long Range Facilities Plan, Three-Year Technology Plan, and Three-Year District Curriculum Plan to advance public confidence in our schools.
Welcome to Andover Regional!
Andover
Regional is located in the heart of scenic Sussex County, New Jersey. Our school district was originally formed in 1953 as the Andover Consolidated School District. Andover Regional provides its students a highly qualified staff of certified teachers, administrators, and educational services personnel as well as a skilled support staff of secretaries, maintenance, custodians, paraprofessionals, aides, and substitute teachers. Our Board of Education is comprised of nine members representing both Andover Borough and Andover Township.
Students in grades K, 1, 2, 3, 4 attend the Florence M. Burd School and students in grades 5, 6, 7, 8 attend the Long Pond School. Our grade 8 graduates attend neighboring Newton High School through a longtime sending/receiving relationship with the Newton Public Schools.
Please navigate our website. Our district homepage has links that will connect you to many fields of interest, including our schools and local communities. Finally, if you have any questions, please contact our Board of Education office, the Long Pond School main office, or the Florence M. Burd main office.
Wishing you a healthy and successful school year,
Bernard T. Baggs, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools
