Union Public School District

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Union Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in preschool through grade twelve from Union Township, in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

The annual operating budget for the district is approximately ninety-one million dollars. The district employs six hundred and thirty five professional staff and three hundred and eighty support personnel. The current enrollment of students in the district is 8,006.

Union was threatened with being the first town north of the Mason-Dixon Line to suffer from penalties as a result of school segregation. The area of Vauxhall was primarily black and Jefferson Elementary School was disproportionately black compared to the rest of the town. Union avoided problems by converting Jefferson Elementary into a sixth-grade only school called Central 6 and bused the Jefferson students to nearby Franklin Elementary. Central 6 is still used as a one-year school, but it's used for fifth graders now.

[edit] Schools

There are ten schools currently in operation in the district:

Elementary schools (Grades K-4)

• Battle Hill School
• Connecticut Farms Elementary School
• Franklin School
• Hannah Caldwell School
• Livingston School
• Washington School

Intermediate School (Grade 5)

• Central Five-Jefferson School)

Middle Schools (Grades 6-8)

• Burnet Middle School
• Kawameeh Middle School

High School (Grades 9-12)

• Union High School

[edit] Administration

• Dr. Theodore A. Jakubowski - Chief School Administrator
• Ms. Karen M. Dunn - Business Administrator

[edit] External links

• Union Public School District
• Union Public School District's 2004-2005 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• National Center for Education Statistics data for the Union Public School District