Union City School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade in Union City, New Jersey, United States. The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide, 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.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's 14 schools had an enrollment of 10,800 students and 788.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a studentâ€"teacher ratio of 13.70:1.
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.
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.
Awards and recognition
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. The Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence was awarded again to Woodrow Wilson for the 2014-2015 school year.
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
- Preschool
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education, (grades PreK - K; 334 students)
- Elementary schools
- Thomas A. Edison School (PreK - 6; 1,104)
- Sara M. Gilmore School (K - 5; 382) (temporally closed) will be renamed Woodrow Wilson in 2017
- Hudson School (PreK - 5; 515)
- Jefferson School (PreK-4; 364)
- Colin Powell Elementary School (K - 5)
- Roosevelt School (K - 6; 906)
- Veteran's Memorial Elementary School (PreK - 5; 474)
- Washington School (K - 6; 748)
- Robert Waters School (PreK - 6; 1,045)
- Woodrow Wilson Arts Integrated School (1 - 8; 358 - located in Weehawken)(temporally open)
- As of 2004 60% were classified as being low income and 90% were Hispanic and/or Latino. It was located in a former high school building in Weehawken because Union City schools had a rising student population, while those in Weehawken had a stable population.
- Middle schools
- Emerson Middle School (6 - 8; 840)
- Union Hill Middle School (7 - 8; 737)
- High school
- José Martà Freshman Academy (9; 570)
- Union City High School (10 - 12; 2,423)
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
- Silvia Abbato, Superintendent
- Anthony Dragona, Business Administrator / Interim Board Secretary
References
External links
- Union City School District
- Union City School District's 2015â€"16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- School Data for the Union City School District, National Center for Education Statistics
