Union City School District (New Jersey)

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Union City School District
3912 Bergen Turnpike
Union City, NJ 07087
District information
Grades K-12
Superintendent Silvia Abbato
Business administrator Anthony Dragona
Schools 14
Affiliation(s) Former Abbott district
Students and staff
Enrollment 10,800 (as of 2011-12)[1]
Faculty 788.6 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 13.70:1
Other information
District Factor Group A
Website www.union-city.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending		 Rank
(*)		 K-12
Average		  %± vs.
Average
1A Total Spending $20,546 82 $18,891 8.8%
1 Budgetary Cost 17,075 90 14,783 15.5%
2 Classroom Instruction 8,555 45 8,763 -2.4%
6 Support Services 3,349 97 2,392 40.0%
8 Administrative Cost 1,404 44 1,485 -5.5%
10 Operations & Maintenance 3,293 103 1,783 84.7%
13 Extracurricular Activities 112 5 268 -58.2%
16 Median Teacher Salary 64,900 51 64,043
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

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,[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 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 student–teacher ratio of 13.70:1.[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]

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.[8] The Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence was awarded again to Woodrow Wilson for the 2014-2015 school year.[9][10]

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[11]) are:[12][13][14]

Preschool
  • Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education,[15] (grades PreK - K; 334 students)
Elementary schools
  • Thomas A. Edison School[16] (PreK - 6; 1,104)
  • Sara M. Gilmore School[17] (K - 5; 382) (temporally closed)
  • Hudson School[18] (PreK - 5; 515)
  • Jefferson School[19] (PreK-4; 364)
  • Colin Powell Elementary School[20] (K - 5)[21]
  • Roosevelt School[22] (K - 6; 906)
  • Veteran's Memorial Elementary School[23] (PreK - 5; 474)
  • Washington School[24] (K - 6; 748)
  • Robert Waters School[25] (PreK - 6; 1,045)
  • Woodrow Wilson Arts Integrated School[26] (1 - 8; 358 - located in Weehawken)(temporally open)
Middle schools
High school

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:[31]

  • Silvia Abbato, Superintendent[32]
  • Anthony Dragona, Business Administrator / Interim Board Secretary[33]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 District information for Union City School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Abbott Districts, New Jersey Department of Education, backed up by the Internet Archiveas of May 15, 2009. Accessed August 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ 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."
  5. ↑ SDA Districts, New Jersey Schools Development Authority. Accessed August 21, 2012.
  6. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 18, 2014.
  7. ↑ 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."
  8. ↑ U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982 Through 2013 (PDF), United States Department of Education. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ Goldman, Jeff. "Which N.J. schools were named to national 'Blue Ribbon' list?", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 2, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2014. "Eleven New Jersey schools have been named to the annual National Blue Ribbon list, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday."
  10. ↑ 2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private, United States Department of Education. Accessed December 31, 2014.
  11. ↑ School Data for the Union City School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  12. ↑ Schools, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  13. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for the Union City School District. New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  14. ↑ Schwartz, Art. "Back to school in Union City; Kids, teachers gear up this week", Hudson Reporter, September 1, 2013. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  15. ↑ Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  16. ↑ Thomas A. Edison School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  17. ↑ Sara M. Gilmore School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  18. ↑ Hudson School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  19. ↑ Jefferson School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  20. ↑ Colin Powell Elementary School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  21. ↑ McDonald, Terrence T. "Gov. Christie visits Union City school opening, hears Democratic mayor praise him". NJ.com, February 8, 2013. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  22. ↑ Roosevelt School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  23. ↑ Veteran's Memorial Elementary School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  24. ↑ Washington School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  25. ↑ Robert Waters School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  26. ↑ Woodrow Wilson Arts Integrated School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  27. ↑ Emerson Middle School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  28. ↑ Union Hill Middle School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  29. ↑ José Martí Freshman Academy, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  30. ↑ Union City High School, Union City School District. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  31. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Hudson County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 14, 2014.
  32. ↑ Superintendent's Office, Union City School District. Accessed October 2, 2014.
  33. ↑ Business Administrator, Union City School District. Accessed October 2, 2014.

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