West Orange Public Schools

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The West Orange Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in Kindergarten through 12th grade in West Orange in Essex County, New Jersey.

The district currently consists of eleven schools: 7 elementary schools, three middle schools and one high school. In the 1990s, the district was ranked among the top 1% of schools in the nation by The Washington Post.

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[edit] Schools

The schools in the district (with 2005-06 school enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[1]) are as follows:

Elementary Schools (grades K–5)

Middle Schools (grades 6–8)

High School

  • West Orange High School – 1,998 students
    • Mr. Arthur J. Alloggiamento, Principal
    • Dr. Kimberly M. Jiurdano, Assistant Principal
    • Mr. Hayden Moore, Assistant Principal
    • Mr. Eric Price, Assistant Principal

[edit] Defunct school facilities

  • Three schools have occupied the same location on Gaston Street. The first was the original West Orange High School, built in 1898. It burned down in 1913, was rebuilt, and linked by a shared auditorium to Fairmount Avenue Elementary School. In 1912, the elementary school had been built behind the high school with its entrance on Fairmount Avenue. (At that time, Fairmount Avenue ran parallel to Gaston Street but it no longer exists.) In 1922, when a new high school was constructed on Northfield Avenue (now Seton Hall Prep), the old high school was transformed into Gaston Street Junior High School. Fairmount Avenue Elementary School remained the same. In the 1950s, Gaston Street Junior High School closed, and the building was transformed once again, this time into the Board of Education offices. In 1972, Fairmount Elementary School dropped the "Avenue" from its name and it was moved to a new building on the corner of Northfield and Gregory Avenues (now the Solomon Schechter Day School Lower Campus). The Board of Education offices remained on Gaston Street and took over both old school buildings. In the late 1970s, both buildings were demolished and the Board of Education offices were relocated to Eagle Rock Avenue School. The Gaston Street/Fairmount Avenue land parcel became the site of the Fairmount House (now the John P. Renna, Jr.) Senior Citizens Housing Complex. A small portion of the land became an extension of the parking lot for the adjacent Town Hall.
  • Eagle Rock Avenue Elementary School – Converted into new Board of Education offices.
  • Fairmount Elementary School – Sold and became Solomon Schechter Day School Lower Campus (Jewish).
  • West Orange High School (Northfield Avenue) – Sold and became Seton Hall Preparatory School (Catholic).
  • West Orange Mountain High School – Built in 1960 as a second high school, located behind Abraham Lincoln Junior High School with its entrance on Conforti Avenue. It became the "new" West Orange High School when the two high schools merged in 1984.
  • Abraham Lincoln Junior High School – On Pleasant Valley Way, it was adjacent and connected to West Orange Mountain High School through a shared auditorium. Later, when West Orange Mountain High School became the "new" West Orange High, Lincoln was closed and the building absorbed by the "new" high school in order to enlarge it.

[edit] Administration

  • Mr. Jerry Tarnoff - Superintendent of Schools, Affirmative Action Officer
  • Dr. Donna Rando - Assistant Superintendent
  • Mr. Mark Kenney - Business Administrator
  • Mr. Steven Kehayes - Director of Technology and Administrative Services
  • Mrs. Nancy Mac Fadyen - Director of Transportation
  • Dr. Silvia Elias - Director of Student Support Services, 504 Officer

[edit] References

  1. ^ West Orange Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 11, 2007.

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