Mount Olive school leaders outline preliminary 2025–26 budget with targeted staffing, $4M in capital projects

Mount Olive Township School District Superintendent Dr. Bangea and Business Administrator Nicole Schoning presented the board with a preliminary 2025–26 budget that builds staff capacity, advances several capital projects and accounts for a roughly $340,000 reduction in state aid compared with the prior year’s one-time increase.

The presentation, given at the March 10 board meeting, outlined personnel additions the administration says are intended to expand academic and special-education services. Those additions include an elementary gifted-and-talented teacher, another elementary multilingual teacher, a new sixth‑grade team to smooth the transition between elementary and middle school, an additional high‑school English teacher, an in‑class resource teacher at the high school, an additional clinical social worker/interventionist, and added special‑education staff including an autism spectrum disorder classroom at SandShore with accompanying ABA staff and paraprofessionals, an ABA specialist, elementary occupational therapists, a shared physical therapist for the middle and high schools, and another child study team member.

Nicole Schoning, the district’s business administrator, told the board the administration aims to bring some related services in‑house — for example, hiring…