Newark Public Schools

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Newark Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves the entire city of Newark, New Jersey. The district is one of 31 Abbott Districts statewide.[1]

Newark Public Schools enrolls approximately 45,000 students, making it the largest school system in New Jersey. The city's public schools are among the lowest-performing in the state, even after the state government took over management of the city's schools in 1995, which was done under the presumption that improvement would follow. The school district continues to struggle with low high school graduation rates and low standardized test scores.

The total school enrollment in Newark city was 75,000 in 2003. Preprimary school enrollment was 12,000 and elementary or high school enrollment was 46,000 children. College enrollment was 16,000.

As of 2003, 64 percent of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 11 percent had a bachelor's degree or higher. Among people 16 to 19 years old, 10 percent were dropouts; they were not enrolled in school and had not graduated from high school.[2]

[edit] Awards and recognition

Ann Street School of Mathematics and Science was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive, during the 1998-99 school year.[3]

Branch Brook Elementary School, a PreKindergarten through 4th grade school, was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence, during the 2004-05 school year.[4]

During the 2007-08 school year, Harriet Tubman School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education.[5][6]

For the 2005-06 school year, the district was recognized with the "Best Practices Award" by the New Jersey Department of Education for its "A Park Study: Learning About the World Around Us" Science program at Abington Avenue School. The curriculum was written, implemented, and submitted to the State of New Jersey by Abington Avenue School kindergarten teacher, Lenore Furman. [7]

[edit] Schools

All schools are located in the city of Newark.

[edit] Primary schools

[edit] Pre-K only

[edit] Pre-K - K

[edit] Pre-K - 4th grade

[edit] Pre-K - 5 grade

[edit] Pre-K - 8th grade

[edit] K - 2nd grade

[edit] K - 4th grade

[edit] K - 5th grade

[edit] 1st - 5th grade

[edit] Middle schools

[edit] Pre-K - 8th grade

[edit] K - 8th grade

[edit] 3rd - 8th grades

[edit] 5th-8th

[edit] 6th - 8th grades

[edit] Secondary schools

[edit] 6th - 12th grades
  • Renaissance Academy

[edit] 7th - 12th grades

[edit] High schools (8th - 12th grades)

[edit] 9th grade only

[edit] Ungraded

[edit] References

  1. ^ Abbott Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 31, 2008.
  2. ^ US Census
  3. ^ Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), accessed May 11, 2006.
  4. ^ U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 2003 through 2005 (PDF), accessed June 5, 2006.
  5. ^ Addison, Kasi; and Juri, Carmen. "Three Essex schools capture blue ribbon", The Star-Ledger, October 7, 2007. Accessed October 14, 2007. "Principals in three Essex County schools found out last week their buildings joined an exclusive club of exemplary schools when the U.S. Department of Education named the nation's latest batch of No Child Left Behind -- Blue Ribbon Schools.... The three Essex County schools are Oakview School in Bloomfield, Millburn High School and Harriet Tubman School in Newark."
  6. ^ No Child Left Behind - Blue Ribbon Schools Program: 2007 Schools, United States Department of Education. Accessed October 15, 2007.
  7. ^ New Jersey Department of Education Best Practices Award recipient for 2005-06, accessed October 23, 2006

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