Cranbury School District

Cranbury School District
23 North Main Street
Cranbury, NJ 08512
District information
Grades pre-K to 8
Superintendent Dr. Susan L. Genco
Business administrator Joyce Picariello
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 567 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 55.5 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 10.22:1
Other information
District Factor Group J
Website www.cranburyschool.org
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		K-8
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$21,86656$18,89115.7%
1Budgetary Cost17,4605714,15923.3%
2Classroom Instruction10,495578,65921.2%
6Support Services2,544472,16717.4%
8Administrative Cost1,695331,5479.6%
10Operations & Maintenance2,352621,61245.9%
13Extracurricular Activities34864104234.6%
16Median Teacher Salary57,2001961,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64

Cranbury School District is a public school district located in and serving students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from Cranbury Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 567 students and 55.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.22:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "J", the 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]

The Cranbury School shares its building with the Cranbury Library.[4][5]

For ninth through twelfth grades, students move on to Princeton High School, located in Princeton, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Princeton Public Schools.[5][6][7][8] Cranbury Township is granted a non-voting seat on the Princeton Regional Schools Board of Education, with the designated representative only voting on issues pertaining to Princeton High School and district-wide issues.[9]

Awards and recognition

For the 1996-97 and 2009-10 school years, Cranbury School was formally designated as a National Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor that an American public school can achieve.[10] During the 2009-10 school year, Cranbury School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence a second time.[11]

History

Old Cranbury School
Old Cranbury School now Cranbury Township's town hall
Location in Middlesex County, New Jersey
Location 23 N. Main Street, Cranbury, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°18′43″N 74°31′01″W / 40.3119°N 74.5170°W / 40.3119; -74.5170
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1896
NRHP Reference # 71000508[12]
Added to NRHP June 21, 1971

Originally two public schools, the Bunker Hill School, and the South Cranbury School, were established in 1850. On May 25, 1896, voters approved the construction of a consolidated grade school that would replace the Bunker Hill School and the South Cranbury School.[13] Construction on the school began in August 1896, and ended in January 1897. The school opened on January 25, 1897, with a population of 159 students. The school was dedicated on February 22, 1897. The Cranbury School had three departments: primary, grammar, and high school.[13]

Cranbury Neck School closed in 1903, and the students who attended Cranbury Neck attended Cranbury School after their school closed. In 1906, a south wing with two classrooms was added to the Cranbury School building.[13]

Wyckoff Mills School closed in 1910, and the students also attended Cranbury School after their school closed.[13]

In 1922, a North wing was added to the Cranbury School building, bringing enrollment to 200 students.[13]

In 1924, the Cranbury Library moved into the Cranbury School building[4]

The school building received additions in 1949, 1957, and 1967. On May 6, 1971 the old building was added as a New Jersey State Historic Site. The old building was recognized and listed on the National Register of Historic Places effective June 21, 1971.[14]

In 1969, a new school replaced the old facility. The new facility received an addition in 1997. On October 14, 2001, the old school building was rededicated as Cranbury Township's town hall.[13] The old school building also houses the Cranbury Township Board of education offices and the Gourgaud Gallery, an art gallery.[15]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[16][17]

References

  1. 1 2 District information for Cranbury Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 7, 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 July 7, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Cranbury Schools and Library, Cranbury.org. Accessed July 14, 2011.
  5. 1 2 Cheslow, Jerry. "Historic, Sparsely Settled -- and Loving It", The New York Times, March 16, 1997. Accessed July 14, 2011. "Cranbury pays tuition to send 106 high school students to nearby Princeton High School. According to Cranbury's Chief School Administrator, Robert J. Bartoletti, 87 percent of the town's youngsters go on to higher education.... As part of the addition, the 28,000-volume Cranbury Public Library, which shares space with the school library, is also being expanded to 6,000 square feet from 4,000 and the school's computers are to be enhanced through the networking of all of the classrooms into the library."
  6. ↑ Princeton Regional High School 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 18, 2015. "The Princeton Public Schools are committed to preparing every child to change the world. That change may come in the form of art or music, science or technology, political action or social justice. As we strive to serve the more than 3500 students from the Princeton and Cranbury communities, we do so knowing that our work with them in the classroom, on the athletic field, and on the stage matters deeply to each one and to the larger society into which they will graduate."
  7. ↑ Capuzzo, Jill P. "Cranbury, N.J.: One Town, Many Personalities", The New York Times, February 25, 2014. Accessed November 2, 2014. "About 545 students in prekindergarten through Grade 8 attend Cranbury School, which has twice been recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. For grades 9 to 12, they move on to Princeton High School, where there are 1,445 students."
  8. ↑ Staff. "Cranbury trims 23 jobs in wake of aid reduction", The Times (Trenton), March 25, 2010. Accessed November 2, 2014. "Cranbury public schools serve about 600 students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The district’s high school students attend Princeton High School."
  9. ↑ Board of Education Members, Princeton Public Schools. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  10. ↑ Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), United States Department of Education, p. 52. Accessed July 15, 2011.
  11. ↑ 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools: All Public and Private Schools, United States Department of Education, p. 13. Accessed July 15, 2011.
  12. ↑ Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 History of Town Hall Building 1896 – 2001, Cranbury Township. Accessed January 14, 2012.
  14. ↑ New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office: New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places (PDF file), accessed July 16, 2006
  15. ↑ Cranbury Township: Gourgaud Gallery, accessed July 16, 2006
  16. ↑ Board of Education, Cranbury School. Accessed July 7, 2014.
  17. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Middlesex County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 7, 2014.

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Coordinates: 40°18′43″N 74°31′08″W / 40.3120°N 74.5188°W / 40.3120; -74.5188

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