The Trenton Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district

School district

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, serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Trenton

Trenton, New Jersey

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, in Mercer County

Mercer County, New Jersey

As of the census of 2000, there were 350,761 people, 125,807 households, and 86,303 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,552 people per square mile . There were 133,280 housing units at an average density of 590 per square mile...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States

United States

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. The district has twenty-one elementary schools, two middle schools and five high school programs. The district is one of 31 Abbott District

Abbott District

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s statewide.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's 21 schools had an enrollment of 11,449 students and 762.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.0.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education

New Jersey Department of Education

The New Jersey Department of Education administers state and federal aid programs affecting more than 1.4 million public and non-public elementary and secondary school children in the state of New Jersey. The department is headquartered in Trenton.The Department is responsible for ensuring that...

 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.

Awards and recognition

Washington Elementary School was recognized by Governor Jim McGreevey

Jim McGreevey

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 in 2003 as one of 25 schools selected statewide for the First Annual Governor's School of Excellence award.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2007-08 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

Elementary Schools

• Cadwalader (PK-5; 211 students)
• Columbus (PK-8; 227)
• Franklin (K-5; 451)
• Grant (PK-8; 561)
• Gregory (PK-8; 509)
• Harrison (K-5; 168)
• Hedgepeth (PK-8; 772)
• Jefferson (K-5; 252)
• Kilmer (PK-8; 581)
• Monument (PK-8; 358)
• Mott (PK-8; 479)
• P.J. Hill (PK-8; 562)
• Parker (PK-5; 561)
• Parker Annex II
• Rivera
• Robbins (K-8; 781)
• Robbins Annex
• Stokes (K-5; 293)
• Washington (PK-5; 352)
• Wilson (PK-5; 330)

Middle Schools (6-8)

• Dunn Middle (6-8; 590)
• Career Life Skills Academy

High schools (9-12)

• Daylight Twilight High School http://www.trenton.k12.nj.us/Daylight/ (9-12; 409)
• Daylight Twilight South Ward http://www.trenton.k12.nj.us/Daylight/
• Trenton Central High School
  Trenton Central High School
  Trenton Central High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Trenton, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Trenton Public Schools....
  
   (9-12; 2,478)

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Raymond Broach, Interim Superintendent of Schools
• Jayne Howard, Business Administrator

School Board Members:

Members of the school district's Board of education

Board of education

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 are:

• Joyce Kersey - President
• Dr. Diane Campbell- Vice President
• Harry Luna
• Alexander Brown
• Lucy Guzman
• Lisa Kasabach
• Marcellus D. Smith Jr.
• Nicola Tatum
• Donald Shelton

External links

• Trenton Public Schools
• Data for the Trenton Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
  National Center for Education Statistics
  The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...