Willingboro Township Public Schools

The Willingboro Township Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Willingboro Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

For the 2005-06 school year, Garfield East Elementary School was one of 22 schools statewide selected as Governor's School of Excellence Winners, an award given to schools that have demonstrated significant academic improvement over the previous two academic years. [ [http://www.state.nj.us/njded/clear/school/gsoe/05winners.htm Snapshots of 2005 Governor’s School of Excellence Winners] , accessed July 25, 2006]

chools

Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics [ [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3418000 Data for the Willingboro Township Public Schools] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 17, 2008.] ) are:

Elementary Schools (PreK-5)
* [http://www.willingboroschools.org/site/schools/gfe/#top Garfield East Elementary School] (359 students)
* [http://www.willingboroschools.org/site/schools/haw/#top Hawthorne Elementary School] (321)
* [http://www.willingboroschools.org/site/schools/jcs/#top J.C. Stuart Elementary School] (315)
* [http://www.willingboroschools.org/site/schools/ths/#top Twin Hills Elementary School] (351)
* [http://www.willingboroschools.org/site/schools/wrj/#top W.R. James Sr. Elementary School] (319)Upper Elementary School (5-6)
* [http://www.willingboroschools.org/site/schools/mem/#top Memorial Upper Elementary School] (713)Middle School (7-8)
* [http://www.willingboroschools.org/site/schools/lvt/#top Levitt Middle School] (659)High School (9-12)
*Willingboro High School (1,272)

The S.W. Bookbinder (356 students), J.A. McGinley (383) and Martin Luther King Jr. (295) Elementary Schools were closed at the end of the 2005-06 school year as part of an effort to save about $3.7 million, through the reduction of 70 staff members and class sizes increased to as many as 28 at the five remaining elementary schools. The cuts were needed to fill a two-year budget deficit of nearly $10 million. [ [http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/article.cfm?id=632688 McGinley, S.W. Bookbinder and Martin Luther King Jr. elementary schools will close] , "Burlington County Times", March 28, 2006]

References

External links

* [http://www.willingboroschools.org Willingboro Township Public Schools]
*NJReportCard|05|5805|0|Willingboro Township Public Schools
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3418000 Data for the Willingboro Township Public Schools] , National Center for Education Statistics