Union City School District 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 31 Abbott districts statewide,[3] which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.[4][5]
| Union City School District | |||||
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| Superintendent: | Stanley Sanger | ||||
| Business Administrator: | Anthony Dragona | ||||
| Address: | 3912 Bergen Turnpike Union City, NJ 07087 |
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| Grade Range: | PreK-12 | ||||
| School facilities: | 16 | ||||
| Enrollment: | 10,341 (as of 2009-10)[1] | ||||
| Faculty (in FTEs): | 818 | ||||
| Student–teacher ratio: | 12.64:1 | ||||
| District Factor Group: | A | ||||
| Web site: | http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us | ||||
| Ind. | Per Pupil | District Spending |
Rank (*) |
PreK-12 Average |
%± vs. Average |
| 1 | Budgetary Cost | 17,948 | 102 | 13,632 | 31.7% |
| 2 | Classroom Instruction | 9,360 | 91 | 8,035 | 16.5% |
| 6 | Support Services | 3,325 | 99 | 2,166 | 53.5% |
| 8 | Administrative Cost | 1,732 | 103 | 1,379 | 25.6% |
| 10 | Operations & Maintenance | 2,559 | 101 | 1,674 | 52.9% |
| 13 | Extracurricular Activities | 189 | 30 | 258 | -26.7% |
| 16 | Median Teacher Salary | 52,093 | 17 | 57,597 | |
| Data from NJDoE 2009 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of PreK-12 districts with 3,501+ students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=105 |
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Union City School District 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 31 Abbott districts statewide,[3] which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.[4][5]
As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's 16 schools had an enrollment of 10,341 students and 818 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.64:1.[1]
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "A", the lowest 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.[6]
Through the 2009-10 school year, the city was served by two public high schools, Emerson High School and Union Hill High School. Starting in September 2008 Union Hill and Emerson High Schools merged into a single school called Union City High School in a building on the site of the former Roosevelt Stadium.[7]
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Awards and recognition[edit]
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[8]
Schools[edit]
Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[9]) are:[10]
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education (grades PreK-K; 315 students)
- Thomas A. Edison School (PreK-6; 1,009)
- Sara M. Gilmore School (K-5; 373)(closed)
- Hudson School (PreK-5; 511)(closed)
- Jefferson School (PreK-4; 332)
- Roosevelt School (K-6; 832)
- Veteran's Memorial School (PreK-5; 484)
- Washington School (K-6; 727)
- Robert Waters School (PreK-6; 945)
- Woodrow Wilson School (1-8; 327)
- Middle schools
- Emerson Middle School (6-8; 818)
- Union Hill Middle School (7-8; 656)
- High school
- José Martí Freshman Academy (9; 593)
- Union City High School (10-12; 2,292)
Administration[edit]
Core members of the district's administration are:[11]
- Stanley Sanger, Superintendent
- Anthony Dragona, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
References[edit]
- ^ a b District information for the Union City School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 5, 2009.
- ^ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
- ^ Abbott Districts, New Jersey Department of Education, backed up by the Internet Archiveas of May 15, 2009. Accessed August 21, 2012.
- ^ What are SDA Districts?, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed August 21, 2012. "SDA Districts are 31 special-needs school districts throughout New Jersey. They were formerly known as Abbott Districts, based on the Abbott v. Burke case in which the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the State must provide 100 percent funding for all school renovation and construction projects in special-needs school districts.... The districts were renamed after the elimination of the Abbott designation through passage of the state’s new School Funding Formula in January 2008."
- ^ SDA Districts, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed August 21, 2012.
- ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed October 27, 2009.
- ^ Hu, Winnie. "After 88 Years of Rivalry, the Last as Us and Them", The New York Times, November 22, 2007. Accessed January 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."
- ^ U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 2003 through 2005 (PDF), accessed June 5, 2006.
- ^ Data for the Union City Board of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 21, 2012.
- ^ Schools, Union City School District. Accessed December 23, 2009.
- ^ Hudson County School Directory, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 5, 2009.
External links[edit]
- Union City Board of Education
- Union City Board of Education's 2010–11 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Union City Board of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Coordinates: 40°46′42″N 74°01′53″W / 40.778268°N 74.031458°W
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