Lawrence Township Public Schools

Lawrence Township Public Schools
Address
2565 Princeton Pike Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Coordinates	40°16′00″N 74°43′41″W / 40.266668°N 74.728126°W / 40.266668; -74.728126Coordinates: 40°16′00″N 74°43′41″W / 40.266668°N 74.728126°W / 40.266668; -74.728126
District information
Grades	Pre-K to 12
Superintendent	Ross Kasun
Business administrator	Tom Eldridge
Schools	7
Students and staff
Enrollment	3,995 (as of 2015-16)[1]
Faculty	323.4 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	12.4:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	GH
Website	www.ltps.org
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) K-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $18,576 50 $18,891 −1.7% 1 Budgetary Cost 14,557 52 14,783 −1.5% 2 Classroom Instruction 8,463 41 8,763 −3.4% 6 Support Services 2,690 79 2,392 12.5% 8 Administrative Cost 1,257 22 1,485 −15.4% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,834 70 1,783 2.9% 13 Extracurricular Activities 255 55 268 −4.9% 16 Median Teacher Salary 63,001 39 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

The Lawrence Township Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2015-16 school year, the district and its seven schools had an enrollment of 3,995 students and 323.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.4:1.^[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]

Students from Robbinsville Township (known as Washington Township until 2007) had attended Lawrence High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship that ended following the opening of Robbinsville High School, with the final group of Robbinsville seniors graduating in the 2006-07 school year.

Awards and recognition[]

For the 1999-2000 school year, Lawrence Middle School was named a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve.^[4]

Lawrence Township Public Schools have been consistently named one of the "Best Communities for Music Education" in the nation by NAMM since 2005.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Schools[]

Schools in the district (with 2015-16 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[11]) are:^[12][13]

Elementary schools

• Eldridge Park Elementary School^[14] (grades K-3; 281 students)
  • Kathy Robbins, Principal
• Ben Franklin Elementary School^[15] (PreK-3; 425)
  • Jay Billy, Principal
• Lawrenceville Elementary School^[16] (PreK-3; 319)
  • Melissa Lockett, Principal
• Slackwood Elementary School^[17] (K-3; 266)
  • Jean Musi, Principal
• Lawrence Intermediate School^[18] (4-6; 913)
  • Cynthia Westhead, Principal

Middle school

• Lawrence Middle School^[19] (7-8; 595)
  • Mindy Milavsky, Principal

High school

• Lawrence High School^[20] (9-12; 1,143)
  • David Adam, Principal

Administration[]

Core members of the district's administration are:^[21]

• Ross Kasun, Superintendent of Schools^[22][23]
• Tom Eldridge, Business Administrator / Board Secretary^[24]

References[]

External links[]

• Lawrence Township Public Schools
• Lawrence Township Public Schools's 2015–16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Lawrence Township Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics