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East Windsor Regional School District

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Grades
  
pre-K to 12

Enrollment
  
5,054 (as of 2011-12)

District Factor Group
  
GH

Schools
  
6

Business administrator
  
Thaddeus Thompson

Student-teacher ratio
  
13.53:1

Number of students
  
5,054

Faculty
  
373.5


Superintendent
  
Dr. James C. Baker (interim)

Profiles

The East Windsor Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district in Mercer County, New Jersey, which serves students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade from East Windsor Township and Hightstown Borough.

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Map of East Windsor Regional School District, NJ, USA

As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 5,054 students and 373.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.53:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-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.

Public school students in seventh through twelfth grades from Roosevelt Borough (a community in Monmouth County that had a 2010 Census population of 882) are sent to the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Roosevelt Public School District.

Awards and recognition

Fourteen EWRSD teachers were selected to participate in Princeton University’s “Teachers as Scholars” Program (TAS) for the 2005-2006 school year. Started at Harvard University in 1996 and brought to Princeton in 2000, the TAS program offers a variety of seminars and workshops for school district teachers in a University setting, taught by the faculty and staff of Princeton University.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

Elementary schools
  • Walter C. Black Elementary School (540 students; in grades K-5)
  • Perry L. Drew Elementary School (695; K-5)
  • Ethel McKnight Elementary School (471; K-5)
  • Grace N. Rogers Elementary School (644; PreK-5)
  • Middle school
  • Melvin H. Kreps Middle School grades 6 - 8 with 1300 students
  • High school
  • Hightstown High School with 1520 students in grades 9 - 12
  • Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • Richard Katz, Ed. D Superintendent
  • Paul Todd, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
  • References

    East Windsor Regional School District Wikipedia