The Monroe Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Monroe Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's seven schools had an enrollment of 5,831 students and 444.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a studentâ€"teacher ratio of 13.12:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth 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.
Students from Jamesburg attend Monroe Township High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Jamesburg Public Schools established in 1980.
Awards and recognition
During the 1991-92 academic school year, Mill Lake Elementary School received the National Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. This honor was followed during the 1998-99 academic school year at Barclay Brook Elementary School. Monroe Township could now boast that both their pre-K through third grade schools received the honor.
Curriculum
In 1996 the New Jersey Department of Education revised the elementary school core curriculum to require foreign language classes. In mid-October 1999 the district sent a questionnaire to 13,000 houses regarding what language should be taught to elementary students. The district received 458 back. 271 of those questionnaires chose Spanish, 96 of the returned questionnaires indicated a preference for Mandarin Chinese and the remaining 91 requested other languages that included Latin, Russian, and English itself. Stephen E. Derkoski, the assistant superintendent, stated that "We can't ignore" that the area houses had a preference of Spanish over Chinese on a 3 to 1 basis. In November 1999, the school board voted 7-1 to designate Spanish as the foreign language used in elementary schools.
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
- Elementary schools
- Applegarth Elementary School (grades 4-5; enrollment not listed)
- Barclay Brook Elementary School (PreK-2; 433 students)
- Brookside Elementary School (3-5; 528)
- Mill Lake Elementary School (PreK-2; 426)
- Oak Tree Elementary School (PreK-3; was 793 in PreK-5)
- Woodland Elementary School (3-5; 520)
- Middle schools
- Monroe Township Middle School (6-8; 1,379)
- High school
- Monroe Township High School for grades 9-12 (1,752)
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
- Dr. Michael G. Kozak, Superintendent
- Michael C. Gorski, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
References
External links
- Monroe Township School District
- Monroe Township School District's 2015â€"16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Monroe Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics
