Union City School District is a comprehensive community public school district

School district

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 that serves students in kindergarten through 12th grade in Union City

Union City, New Jersey

Union City is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. According to the 2010 United States Census the city had a total population of 66,455. All of the city is on land, an area of...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States

United States

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. The district is one of 31 Abbott District

Abbott District

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s statewide.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's 13 schools had an enrollment of 9,729 students and 773.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.6.

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.

Through the 2007-08 school year, the city was served by two public high schools, Emerson High School and Union Hill High School

Union Hill High School

Union Hill Middle School is a public middle school in Union City, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Union City Board of Education, an Abbott District. The school was built in what was formerly Union Hill, New Jersey, which merged with West Hoboken in 1925 to form Union City...

. Starting in September 2008 Union Hill and Emerson High Schools merged into a single school called Union City High School in a building on the site of the former Roosevelt Stadium.

Awards and recognition

Woodrow Wilson School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence

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 by the United States Department of Education

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, the highest award an American school can receive, during the 2004-05 school year

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2007-08 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

• Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education (PK-K; 262 students)
• Thomas A. Edison School (PK-8; 1,245)
• Sara M. Gilmore School (PK-5; 360)
• Hudson School (PK-5; 449)
• Jefferson School (PK-5; 318)
• Roosevelt School (K-8; 984)
• Veteran's Memorial School (PK-5; 439)
• Washington School (K-8; 855)
• Robert Waters School (PK-8; 1,121)
• Woodrow Wilson School (1-8; 314)

Middle school

• Emerson Middle School
• José Martí Freshman Academy (562)
• Emerson Middle School (1,377)
• Union Hill Middle School
  Union Hill High School
  Union Hill Middle School is a public middle school in Union City, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Union City Board of Education, an Abbott District. The school was built in what was formerly Union Hill, New Jersey, which merged with West Hoboken in 1925 to form Union City...
  
   (1,443)

High schools

• Union City High School
• Union City Career Academy http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/schools/uchs/careeracademy/academy_site/academy_index.html

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Stanley Sanger, Superintendent
• Anthony Dragona, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• Union City Board of Education
• Data for the Union City Board of Education, 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...