The Union Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district

School district

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 that serves students in preschool through grade twelve from Union Township

Union Township, Union County, New Jersey

Union is a Township in Union County, New Jersey, United States. In the 18th century, the area that is now Union was then called Connecticut Farms...

, in Union County

Union County, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States

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.

Union was threatened with being the first school district north of the Mason-Dixon Line

Mason-Dixon line

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 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 the Jefferson students to nearby Franklin Elementary. Central 6 is still used as a one-year school, but it's used for fifth graders now.

As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's 10 schools had an enrollment of 7,776 students and 588.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2.

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 "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.

Schools

The ten schools currently in operation (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

Elementary schools (Grades K-4)

• Battle Hill School (445 students)
  • Michelle C. Osborne-Warren, Principal
• Hannah Caldwell School (554)
  • Dr. Anthony Lentine, Principal
• Connecticut Farms Elementary School (464)
  • Annie Moses, Principal
• Franklin School (495)
  • Corey Lowery, Principal
• Livingston School (423)
  • Kathryn DiGiovanni, Principal
• Washington School (581)
  • Mark C. Hoyt, Principal

Intermediate School (Grade 5)

• Central Five-Jefferson School (567)
  • Thomas Tsirikos, Principal

Middle Schools (Grades 6-8)

• Burnet Middle School (1,020)
  • Ray Salvatore, Principal
• Kawameeh Middle School (713)
  • Jason Malanda, Interim Principal

High School (Grades 9-12)

• Union High School
  Union High School (New Jersey)
  Union High School is a comprehensive community public high school located in Union Township in Union County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Union Public School District. In the late 1960s, a new high school was built, expanding on the existing Burnet Junior High School structure...
  
   (2,449)
  • Edward Gibbons, Principal
  • Gerry Benaquista, Vice Principal
  • Michael Hamberg, Vice Principal
  • Benjamin Kloc, Vice Principal
  • David Shaw, Vice Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Dr. Patrick Martin, Superintendent
• Karen M. Dunn, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• Union Public School District
• Data for the Union Public School District, 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...