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 1A Total Spending $21,866 56 $18,891 15.7% 1 Budgetary Cost 17,460 57 14,159 23.3% 2 Classroom Instruction 10,495 57 8,659 21.2% 6 Support Services 2,544 47 2,167 17.4% 8 Administrative Cost 1,695 33 1,547 9.6% 10 Operations & Maintenance 2,352 62 1,612 45.9% 13 Extracurricular Activities 348 64 104 234.6% 16 Median Teacher Salary 57,200 19 61,136 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, public school 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] As of the 2013-14 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,469 students and 117.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1.^[10]

Awards and recognition

For the 1996-97, 2009-10, and 2016-17 school years, Cranbury School was formally designated as a National Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor that an American public school can achieve.^[11] During the 2009-10 school year, Cranbury School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence a second time.^[12][13]

History

Old Cranbury School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1896
NRHP Reference #	71000508[14]
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.^[15] 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.^[15]

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.^[15]

Wyckoff Mills School closed in 1910, and the students also attended Cranbury School after their school closed.^[15]

In 1922, a North wing was added to the Cranbury School building, bringing enrollment to 200 students.^[15]

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.^[16]

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.^[15] The old school building also houses the Cranbury Township Board of education offices and the Gourgaud Gallery, an art gallery.^[17]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[18][19]

• Dr. Susan L. Genco, Chief School Administrator / Principal
• Michele Waldron, Vice Principal
• Joyce Picariello, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References

1. 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. Cranbury Schools and Library, Cranbury.org. Accessed July 14, 2011.
5. 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 Public Schools 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 1, 2016. "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. School Data for Princeton High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed June 1, 2016.
11. Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), United States Department of Education, p. 52. Accessed July 15, 2011.
12. 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools: All Public and Private Schools, United States Department of Education, p. 13. Accessed July 15, 2011.
13. 2016 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Non‐Public, National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Accessed November 13, 2016.
14. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
15. History of Town Hall Building 1896 – 2001, Cranbury Township. Accessed January 14, 2012.
16. New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Middlesex County, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Historic Preservation Office (PDF file). Accessed July 20, 2016.
17. Gourgaud Gallery, Cranbury Township. Accessed July 16, 2006.
18. Board of Education, Cranbury School. Accessed July 7, 2014.
19. New Jersey School Directory for Middlesex County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 7, 2014.

External links

• Cranbury School
• Cranbury School's 2014–15 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• Data for Cranbury School, National Center for Education Statistics

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