East Windsor Regional School District

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.

East Windsor Regional School District
Address
25A Leshin Lane
Hightstown, NJ 08520
United States
Coordinates
District information
GradesPreK to 12
SuperintendentMark Daniels
Business administratorPaul Todd
Schools6
Students and staff
Enrollment5,339 (as of 2016-17)[1]
Faculty427.3 FTEs
Student–teacher ratio12.5:1
Other information
District Factor GroupGH
Websitewww.ewrsd.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		K-12
average		%± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$17,56438$18,891−7.0%
1Budgetary Cost13,7933814,783−6.7%
2Classroom Instruction8,695538,763−0.8%
6Support Services1,952262,392−18.4%
8Administrative Cost1,212151,485−18.4%
10Operations & Maintenance1,539421,783−13.7%
13Extracurricular Activities25453268−5.2%
16Median Teacher Salary72,2458664,043
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-12 districts with more than 3,500 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=103

As of the 2016-17 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 5,339 students and 427.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1.[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.[3]

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.[4]

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 2016-17 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[5]) are:[6]

Elementary schools
  • Walter C. Black Elementary School[7] (548; K-2)
    • Heather Gladkowski, Principal
      • Tracie Abbes, Assistant Principal
  • Ethel McKnight Elementary School[8] (466; K-2)
    • Nicole Foulks, Principal
      • Stephanie Dunk[9], Assistant Principal
  • Perry L. Drew Elementary School[10] (710; 3-5)
    • Robert Dias, Principal
      • Nataly Farias, Assistant Principal
  • Grace N. Rogers Elementary School[11] (665; PreK, 3-5)
    • Samantha Felicetta, Principal
      • Michael Tozzi, Assistant Principal
Middle school
  • Melvin H. Kreps Middle School[12] (1,312; 6-8)
    • Lori Emmerson, Principal
      • Kimberly Cruz-Garcia, Assistant Principal
      • Christopher Edwards, Assistant Principal
      • Juan Swist, Assistant Principal
High school
  • Hightstown High School[13] (1,550, 9-12)
    • Dennis M. Vinson Jr., Principal
      • Priscilla Aniegbuna, Assistant Principal
      • Jermaine Blount, Assistant Principal
      • Christopher Guglielmo, Assistant Principal
      • John A. Perillo, Assistant Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[14][15]

  • Mark Daniels, Superintendent
  • Paul Todd, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

References
  1. District information for East Windsor Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 26, 2019.
  2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 4, 2014.
  4. East Windsor Regional School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 11, 2016. "The East Windsor Regional School District, located in central New Jersey at New Jersey Turnpike Exit 8, is a stable K-12 public school district serving the communities of the East Windsor Township and the Borough of Hightstown as well as Roosevelt Borough students' grades 7 through 12."
  5. School Data for the East Windsor Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 26, 2019.
  6. New Jersey School Directory for the East Windsor Regional School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
  7. Walter C. Black Elementary School, East Windsor Regional School District. Accessed July 26, 2019.
  8. Ethel McKnight Elementary School, East Windsor Regional School District. Accessed July 26, 2019.
  9. Dempsey, Geoff. New Principal At Hillsborough's Triangle Elementary, Hillsborough, NJ Patch. June 13, 2019. Accessed July 25, 2019. "Aliperti was previously assistant principal of Ethel McKnight Elementary School, a kindergarten through second grade school in the East Windsor School District."
  10. Perry L. Drew Elementary School, East Windsor Regional School District. Accessed July 26, 2019.
  11. Grace N. Rogers Elementary School, East Windsor Regional School District. Accessed July 26, 2019.
  12. Melvin H. Kreps Middle School, East Windsor Regional School District. Accessed July 26, 2019.
  13. Hightstown High School, East Windsor Regional School District. Accessed July 26, 2019.
  14. Administration, East Windsor Regional School District. Accessed July 26, 2019.
  15. New Jersey School Directory for Mercer County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 29, 2016.
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