Cranbury School

Cranbury School
Superintendent:		Carol Malouf (interim)
Business Administrator:		Joyce Picariello
Address:		23 North Main Street Cranbury, NJ 08512
Grade Range:		K-8
School facilities:		1
Enrollment:		596 (as of 2009-10)[1]
Faculty (in FTEs):		59
Student–teacher ratio:		10.10
District Factor Group:		J
Web site:		http://www.cranburyschool.org
Ind.	Per Pupil	District Spending	Rank (*)	K-8 Average	%± vs. Average
1	Comparative Cost	$15,902	23	$12,420	28.0%
2	Classroom Instruction	9,734	15	7,588	28.3%
6	Support Services	2,083	34	1,771	17.6%
8	Administrative Cost	1,643	23	1,411	16.4%
10	Operations & Maintenance	2,117	45	1,462	44.8%
13	Extracurricular Activities	295	64	97	204.1%
16	Median Teacher Salary	55,840	39	54,453
Data from NJDoE 2009 Comparative Spending Guide.[2] *Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64

Cranbury School is a public PreK-8 school located in and serving Cranbury Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is the sole school operated by the Cranbury Township Board of Education, a school district.

As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's one schools had an enrollment of 596 students and 59 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.10.^[1]

The Cranbury School shares its building with the Cranbury Library.^[3][4]

For grades 9-12, students move on to Princeton High School, located in the Borough of Princeton, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Princeton Regional Schools.^[5][4] 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.^[6]

Awards and recognition

For the 1996-97 and 2009-10 school years, Cranbury School was formally designated as a National Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor that an American public school can achieve.^[7] During the 2009-10 school year, Cranbury School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence a second time.^[8]

History

Originally two public schools, the Bunker Hill School, and the South Cranbury School, were established in 1850. On May 25, 1896, voters approved of the construction of a consolidated grade school that would replace the Bunker Hill School and the South Cranbury School.^[9] 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.

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.

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

In 1922, a new "North" wing was added to the Cranbury School building. The school now had a total of 200 students.

In 1924, the Cranbury Library moved into the Cranbury School building^[3]

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.^[10]

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's town hall.^[9] The old school building also houses the Cranbury Township Board of Education (Cranbury School) offices and the Gourgaud Gallery, an art gallery.^[11]

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:^[12][13]

• Carol Malouf, Superintendent (interim)
• Joyce Picariello, Business Administrator

References

1. ^ ^{a b} District information for the Cranbury Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed June 5, 2011.
2. ^ Comparative Spending Guide March 2009, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 28, 2009.
3. ^ ^{a b} Cranbury Schools and Library, Cranbury.org. Accessed July 14, 2011.
4. ^ ^{a b} 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."
5. ^ Staff. "Cranbury trims 23 jobs in wake of aid reduction", The Times (Trenton), March 25, 2010. Accessed July 14, 2011. "Cranbury public schools serve about 600 students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The district’s high school students attend Princeton High School."
6. ^ Board of Education, Princeton Regional Schools. Accessed July 15, 2011.
7. ^ Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), United States Department of Education, p. 52. Accessed July 15, 2011.
8. ^ 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools: All Public and Private Schools, United States Department of Education, p. 13. Accessed July 15, 2011.
9. ^ ^{a b} Cranbury Township: History of Town Hall Building, 1896 – 2001
10. ^ New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office: New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places (PDF file), accessed July 16, 2006
11. ^ Cranbury Township: Gourgaud Gallery, accessed July 16, 2006
12. ^ Board of Education, Cranbury School. Accessed June 5, 2011.
13. ^ Middlesex County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.

External links

	New Jersey portal
	Schools portal

• Cranbury School
• Cranbury School's 2009–10 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• Data for Cranbury School, National Center for Education Statistics

Coordinates: 40°18′40″N 74°30′59″W / 40.311013°N 74.516338°W / 40.311013; -74.516338