Union Public School District

Union Public School District
Type and location
Grades K-12
Address 2369 Morris Avenue
Union, NJ 07083
District information
Superintendent Gregory A. Tatum (interim)
Business administrator Manuel E. Vieira
Schools 11
Students and staff
Enrollment 7,466 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 572.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 13.05:1
Other information
District Factor Group DE
Website www.twpunionschools.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-12
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$17,08928$18,891-9.5%
1Budgetary Cost13,5013314,783-8.7%
2Classroom Instruction8,222318,763-6.2%
6Support Services2,037362,392-14.8%
8Administrative Cost1,394431,485-6.1%
10Operations & Maintenance1,598471,783-10.4%
13Extracurricular Activities17020268-36.6%
16Median Teacher Salary67,7077064,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with more than 3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=103

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.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's 11 schools had an enrollment of 7,466 students and 572.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.05:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[3]

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 all children in the district in 6th grade to Jefferson Elementary School. It was later renamed Central 5 housing all fifth-grade students due to the fact that the two junior highs, Burnet and Kawameeh, became middle schools and took on sixth grade students.[4]

Schools

The schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[5]) are:[6]

Elementary schools
Middle schools
High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[17][18]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for Union Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ Sullivan, Ronald. "JERSEY TOWNSHIP GETS BUSING PLAN; Union School Board Adopts Integration Proposal", The New York Times, February 19, 1969. Accessed May 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ School Data for the Union Public School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Union Public School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 24, 2013.
  7. ↑ Battle Hill Elementary School, Union Public School District. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  8. ↑ Hannah Caldwell Elementary School, Union Public School District. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  9. ↑ Connecticut Farms Elementary School, Union Public School District. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  10. ↑ Franklin Elementary School, Union Public School District. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  11. ↑ Jefferson Elementary School, Union Public School District. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  12. ↑ Livingston Elementary School, Union Public School District. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  13. ↑ Washington Elementary School, Union Public School District. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  14. ↑ Burnet Middle School, Union Public School District. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  15. ↑ Kawameeh Middle School, Union Public School District. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  16. ↑ Union High School, Union Public School District. Accessed September 8, 2014.
  17. ↑ Administration Office, Township of Union Public School District. Accessed March 23, 2015.
  18. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Union County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 8, 2014.

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Coordinates: 40°42′04″N 74°17′10″W / 40.701244°N 74.286202°W