- Union City Board of Education
Union City Board of Education is a comprehensive community public
school district that serves students in kindergarten through 12th grade in Union City,New Jersey ,United States . The district is one of 31Abbott District s statewide. [ [http://www.nj.gov/cgi-bin/education/abbotts/abbotturls.pl?string=code&maxhits=100 Abbott Districts] ,New Jersey Department of Education . AccessedMarch 31 ,2008 .]Woodrow Wilson School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the
United States Department of Education , the highest award an American school can receive, during the 2004-05 school year [ [http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-2003.pdf U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 2003 through 2005 (PDF)] , accessedJune 5 ,2006 .]Through the 2007-08 school year, the city is served by two public high schools, Emerson High School and
Union Hill High School . Starting in September 2008 Union Hill and Emerson High Schools will merge into a single school to be calledUnion City High School in a building on the site of the former Roosevelt Stadium. [Hu, Winnie. [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/nyregion/22union.htm "After 88 Years of Rivalry, the Last as Us and Them"] , "The New York Times ",November 22 ,2007 . AccessedJanuary 2 ,2008 . "But today’s so-called Turkey Game signals the end of the tradition. Next fall, the two schools will merge in a new $176 million building.... The new Union City High School will take up four-and-a-half acres in the center of the city, squeezed between row houses and commercial strips. It will have a football field and bleachers built on the roof so that players will no longer have to share the facilities at José Martí Middle School."]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=3416380 Data for the Union City Board of Education] ,National Center for Education Statistics . AccessedJuly 27 ,2008 .] ) are:* [http://www.union-city-nj.org/modules/mxdirectory/visit.php?cid=6&lid=5 Thomas A. Edison School] (PK-8; 1,362)
* [http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/schools/elem/gilmore/index.html Sara M. Gilmore School] (PK-5; 346)
* [http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/schools/elem/hudson/index.html Hudson School] (PK-5; 436)
* [http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/schools/elem/jefferson/index.html Jefferson School] (PK-5; 341)
* [http://www.union-city-nj.org/modules/mxdirectory/visit.php?cid=6&lid=11 Roosevelt School] (K-8; 1,028)
*Veteran's Memorial School (PK-5; 420)
* [http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/schools/elem/washington/index.html Washington School] (K-8; 937)
* [http://www.union-city-nj.org/modules/mxdirectory/visit.php?cid=6&lid=10 Robert Waters School] (PK-8; 1,254)
* [http://www.union-city-nj.org/modules/mxdirectory/visit.php?cid=6&lid=15 Woodrow Wilson School] (1-8; 325);Middle school
* [http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/schools/middle/josemarti/index.html José Martí Middle School] (599);High schools
*Emerson High School (1,495)
*Union Hill High School (1,50)
*Union City Career Academy [http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/schools/uchs/careeracademy/academy_site/academy_index.html]References
External links
* [http://www.union-city-nj.org/modules/AMS/ Union City Board of Education]
*NJReportCard|17|5240|0|Union City Board of Education
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3416380 Data for the Union City Board of Education] ,National Center for Education Statistics
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