Union Public School District

The Union Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in preschool through grade twelve from Union Township, in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

The annual operating budget for the district is approximately ninety-one million dollars. The district employs six hundred and thirty five professional staff and three hundred and eighty support personnel. The current enrollment of students in the district is 8,006.

Union was threatened with being the first town north of the Mason-Dixon Line 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.

chools

The ten schools currently in operation (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics [ [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3416500 Data for the Union Public School District] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 14, 2008.] ) are:

;Elementary schools (Grades K-4)
* [http://www.twpunionschools.org/battlehill.htm Battle Hill School] (441 students)
* [http://www.twpunionschools.org/hannah.htm Hannah Caldwell School] (541)
* [http://www.twpunionschools.org/conn_farms.htm Connecticut Farms Elementary School] (457)
* [http://www.twpunionschools.org/franklin.htm Franklin School] (536)
* [http://www.twpunionschools.org/livingston.htm Livingston School] (447)
* [http://www.twpunionschools.org/washington.htm Washington School] (569);Intermediate School (Grade 5)
* [http://www.twpunionschools.org/central5.htm Central Five-Jefferson School] (591);Middle Schools (Grades 6-8)
* [http://www.twpunionschools.org/burnet.htm Burnet Middle School] (1,020)
* [http://www.twpunionschools.org/kawameeh.htm Kawameeh Middle School] (763);High School (Grades 9-12)
*Union High School (2,573)

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are: [ [http://www.twpunionschools.org/board_office.htm Administration Office] , Township of Union Public School District. Accessed August 25, 2008.]
*Dr. Theodore A. Jakubowski - Chief School Administrator
*Gregory A. Tatum, Assistant Superintendent
*James J. Damato, Board Attorney / Board Secretary
*Karen M. Dunn, Business Administrator

References

External links

* [http://www.twpunionschools.org/ Union Public School District]
*NJReportCard|39|5290|0|Union Public School District
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3416500 Data for the Union Public School District] , National Center for Education Statistics