Cranbury School District

Cranbury School District
Address
23 North Main Street
Cranbury
, Middlesex County, New Jersey, 08512
United States
Coordinates40°18′43″N 74°31′08″W / 40.3120°N 74.5188°W / 40.3120; -74.5188
District information
GradesPreK to 8
SuperintendentJennifer K. Diszler
Business administratorDavid Weidele
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment453 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty59.1 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio7.7:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupJ
Websitewww.cranburyschool.org
Ind. Per pupil District
spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-8
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$21,86656$18,89115.7%
1Budgetary Cost17,4605714,15923.3%
2Classroom Instruction10,495578,65921.2%
6Support Services2,544472,16717.4%
8Administrative Cost1,695331,5479.6%
10Operations & Maintenance2,352621,61245.9%
13Extracurricular Activities34864104234.6%
16Median Teacher Salary57,2001961,136
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of K-8 districts with 401-750 students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=64

Cranbury School District is a public school district located in and serving students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Cranbury, in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[3][4][5]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 453 students and 59.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.7:1.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "J", the 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.[6]

For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students move on to Princeton High School, located in Princeton, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Princeton Public Schools.[7][8][9][10] Cranbury Township is granted a seat on the Princeton Regional Schools board of education, with the designated representative restricted to voting on issues pertaining to Princeton High School and district-wide issues.[11] As of the 2020–21 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,555 students and 125.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.4:1.[12]

  1. ^ a b c d District information for Cranbury Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  2. ^ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ^ Cranbury Township Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Cranbury School District. Accessed February 19, 2020. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades K through 8 in the Cranbury School District. Composition: The Cranbury School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Cranbury Township."
  4. ^ School Performance Reports for the Cranbury Township School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.
  5. ^ New Jersey School Directory for the Cranbury School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  6. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 7, 2014.
  7. ^ Cheslow, Jerry. "Historic, Sparsely Settled -- and Loving It", The New York Times, March 16, 1997. Accessed July 14, 2011. "Cranbury pays tuition to send 106 high school students to nearby Princeton High School. According to Cranbury's Chief School Administrator, Robert J. Bartoletti, 87 percent of the town's youngsters go on to higher education.... As part of the addition, the 28,000-volume Cranbury Public Library, which shares space with the school library, is also being expanded to 6,000 square feet from 4,000 and the school's computers are to be enhanced through the networking of all of the classrooms into the library."
  8. ^ Princeton Public Schools 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 1, 2016. "As we strive to serve the more than 3500 students from the Princeton and Cranbury communities, we do so knowing that our work with them in the classroom, on the athletic field, and on the stage matters deeply to each one and to the larger society into which they will graduate."
  9. ^ Capuzzo, Jill P. "Cranbury, N.J.: One Town, Many Personalities", The New York Times, February 25, 2014. Accessed November 2, 2014. "About 545 students in prekindergarten through Grade 8 attend Cranbury School, which has twice been recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. For grades 9 to 12, they move on to Princeton High School, where there are 1,445 students."
  10. ^ Staff. "Cranbury trims 23 jobs in wake of aid reduction", The Times, March 25, 2010. Accessed November 2, 2014. "Cranbury public schools serve about 600 students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The district’s high school students attend Princeton High School."
  11. ^ Board of Education Members Archived 2014-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, Princeton Public Schools. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  12. ^ School data for Princeton High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 15, 2022.