Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District

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The Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District is a regional public school district serving students in grades K - 8 from the suburban communities of Englishtown and Manalapan Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The district serves over 5,555 students in seven schools, of which approximately 301 are from Englishtown and approximately 5,254 are from Manalapan Township.

Manalapan and Englishtown formally joined together as a regional elementary school district in 1963.

Students from the two communities in public school for grades 9-12 attend the schools of the Freehold Regional High School District. The district also serves students from Colts Neck Township, Farmingdale, Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Howell Township and Marlboro Township.[1] Englishtown students attend Manalapan High School and Manalapan Township students attend Manalapan High School or Freehold Township High School.

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[edit] Schools

Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment from the National Center for Education Statistics[2]) are:

[edit] Elementary Schools (Grades K - 3)

[edit] Intermediate Schools (Grades 4 - 6)

[edit] Middle School (Grades 7 and 8)

[edit] In the news

Starting September 12, 2006, the approximately 1,400 students of Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School had to learn in the elementary and intermediate schools in the districts the middle school building was not yet ready for use. Inspections had identified between 100 and 300 code violations, and the school could not be granted a Certificate of Occupancy. While the building was being completed, students attended school on the school's four-hour day schedule in cafeterias, gymnasiums, auditoriums, and empty classrooms in the elementary and intermediate schools.[3] As of September 25, 2006, students resumed a full day schedule at the Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Freehold Regional High School District 2007 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 28, 2008. "Freehold Regional High School District, the largest high school district in New Jersey, has six high schools with almost 12,000 students and over 1,500 employees.... District members include the Townships of Colts Neck, Freehold, Howell, Manalapan, and Marlboro, and the Boroughs of Englishtown, Farmingdale, and Freehold."
  2. ^ Data for the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 28, 2008.
  3. ^ School's first day gets failing grade: BUSING PROBLEMS CONFUSE KIDS, ANGER PARENTS, Asbury Park Press, September 13, 2006
  4. ^ District Homepage

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