The Bernards Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district, serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Bernards Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its six schools had an enrollment of 5,691 students and 463.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
The district offers a state-of-the-art public program for children on the autism spectrum, utilizing the principles of applied behavior analysis.
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.
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Awards, recognition and rankings
During the 2009-10 school year, Ridge High 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. The school had also won the award for the 1986-87 school year. Mount Prospect Elementary School was one of 11 in the state to be recognized in 2014 by the United States Department of Education's National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. In 2015, Liberty Corner School was one of 15 schools in New Jersey, and one of nine public schools, recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School in the exemplary high performing category by the U.S. Department of Education.
Ridge High School was ranked 37th best in America and second best non-magnet high school by Newsweek in 2015 and ranked 71st overall in America (and third-highest ranked non-magnet school in New Jersey) by the magazine in 2016.
William Annin Middle School was chosen as a "School To Watch" in 2016, one of three middle schools in the state selected by the Schools To Watch Program.
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Schools
The schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
- Elementary schools
- Cedar Hill Elementary School (grades K-5; 610 students)
- Paul Ciempola, Principal
- Krissy Uhler, Assistant Principal
- Liberty Corner Elementary School (K-5; 556)
- James Oliver, Principal
- Jenna Hawkswell, Assistant Principal
- Mount Prospect Elementary School (PreK-5; 687)
- Joanne Hozeny, Principal
- Michael Pepitone, Assistant Principal
- Oak Street Elementary School (K-5; 579)
- Jane Costa, Principal
- Scott Graber, Assistant Principal
- Middle school
- William Annin Middle School (6-8; 1,382). The school is one of the few in the United States to have a seismograph, which is part of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Cooperative Seismographic Network.
- Karen Hudock, Principal
- Cheri Howarth, Assistant Principal
- Dan Lederer, Assistant Principal
- Adam Torrisi, Assistant Principal
- High school
- Ridge High School (9-12; 1,900). The high school mascot is the Ridge Red Devil.
- Drew Krause, Principal
- Gina Donlevie, Assistant Principal
- Kathleen Dusebout, Assistant Principal
- Scott Thompson, Assistant Principal
- Thomas Thorp, Assistant Principal
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
- Nick Markarian, Superintendent
- Rod McLaughlin, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
References
External links
- Bernards Township School District
- Bernards Township School District's 2015-16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- School Data for the Bernards Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics
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