The Somerville Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district

School district

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 that serves students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade from Somerville

Somerville, New Jersey

Somerville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 12,098. It is the county seat of Somerset County....

, in Somerset County

Somerset County, New Jersey

Somerset County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. In 2010, the population was 323,444. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Somerville....

, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States.

Students from Branchburg Township

Branchburg Township, New Jersey

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 attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship

Sending/receiving relationship

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 with the Branchburg Township School District

Branchburg Township School District

The Branchburg Township School District is a community public school district serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Branchburg Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States....

.

As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 2,360 students and 181.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0.

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 "FG", the fourth 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.

Awards and recognition

Somerville Public Schools was voted one of the "100 Top Schools in Towns You Can Afford" in the January 1996 issue of Money

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magazine. Somerville High School was ranked as one of the "Top 75 Public High Schools" by New Jersey Monthly

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magazine in its September, 1996 issue.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

Elementary School

• Van Derveer Elementary School (PreK-5; 845 students)
  • Susan C. Haynes, Principal

Middle School

• Somerville Middle School (6-8; 329)
  • Georgette Boulegeris, Principal

High School

• Somerville High School
  Somerville High School (New Jersey)
  Somerville High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school of the Somerville Public Schools serving students from Somerville and Branchburg Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States....
  
   for grades 9-12 (1,186)
  • Timothy O'Halloran, Principal
  • Scott Hade, Assistant Principal / Athletic Director

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Dr. Timothy J. Purnell, Superintendent
• Bryan P. Boyce, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• Somerville Public Schools
• Data for the Somerville 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...