Irvington Public Schools is a public school district

School district

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 serving children in grades K-12 in Irvington

Irvington, New Jersey

Irvington is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a total population of 53,926, a decline of 11.2% from the 60,695 residents enumerated in the 2000 Census.-Geography:...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States. The district is one of 31 Abbott District

Abbott District

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s statewide.

As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's 12 schools had an enrollment of 7,976 students and 643 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.40.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education

New Jersey Department of Education

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 as being in District Factor Group "A", the lowest 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.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

Elementary schools

• Augusta Preschool Academy (301 students) Designed by award winning firm DCM Architecture & Engineering LLC
  • Dr. Wilma Crespo - Principal
• Berkeley Terrace School (461)
  • Margaret Wells - Principal
• Chancellor Avenue School (443)
  • Andrea Tucker - Principal
• Florence Avenue School (544)
  • James Washington - Principal
• Grove Street School (363)
  • Deniese Cooper - Principal
• Madison Avenue School (311)
  • Julia Slattery - Principal
• Thurgood G. Marshall School (397)
  • Rose Gordon - Principal
• Mount Vernon Avenue School (1,330)
  • Sandra Boone-Gibbs - Principal
• University Elementary School (532)
  • Henry Sosnowski, Principal

Middle schools

• Union Avenue Middle School (Grades 6-8; 791)
  • Cheryl Chester, Principal
• University Middle School (Grades 6-8; 711)
  • Gregory Cooper - Principal

High schools

• Irvington High School
  Irvington High School (New Jersey)
  Irvington High School: Frank H. Morrell Campus is a four-year public high school in Irvington, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, that serves students in grades 9 to 12, as part of the Irvington Public Schools. Irvington High School is the only high school in Irvington. The IHS interior...
  
   (Grades 9-12; 1,521)
  • Burnett Davis III - Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Dr. Ethel J. Hasty, Superintendent
• Reginald Lamptey, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• Irvington Public Schools
• Data for the Irvington Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
  National Center for Education Statistics
  The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...