Read more: NJ Coronavirus, Reopen Updates: Here's What You Need To Know Many districts plan to begin the coming school year with remote instruction. The ratings were also determined before the coronavirus outbreak and the shutting of school buildings in March. Patch obtained scores that are supposed to compare all schools together, although some complain that it's unfair to rate elementary schools against high schools. The new 2020 ratings were established to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaced the controversial No Child Left Behind Act. Kids needs to live their age, this is there age to "thrive" and not to outshine your neighbor in TAG or Kumon.NEW JERSEY – For the third year in a row, New Jersey has released its controversial rating system that graded every school on a 1-100 scale - a system educators say paints an incomplete picture of the state's 2,100 schools (see entire list below). The next qualified has less chance to get in that college compared to someone with similar credential from east Brunswick or Monroe school. People are so bogged down by school rating by percentage, they don't realize Yale or Harvard cannot accommodate more than 2-3 kids from WW school district even if half class is qualified. status quo is so impractical, nearly every block has its own school. I believe 550 townships having their own school is not sustainable. The bigger issue is state, county and economics. You are thinking too naive, it's not simply school rating that may prevent "inferior" school sending kids to better school district. Why wouldn't Jamesburg just put that money to good use and build a high school for their kids.ĭoes anyone know when will "sending/receiving relationship" between Jamesburg and Monroe Twp will end? Where does one look to find that out? Though it's interesting that Jamesburg residents pay "effective" tax rate of 2.85% where as West Windsor residents pay "effective" tax rate of 2.44% (Plainsboro pays even less at 2.3%). May I ask how did you find this information out? Is it only because you live around that area or in Monroe Twp?Īlso regarding Jamesburg, I doubt West Windsor would accept the students from Jamesburg, since it is very highly ranked school district, people living in WW will seriously have issues with students coming from outsides and ruining their rating. Thank you guess you do have a crystal ball. Monroes' 2016/17 school budget has line items for Jamesburg. I can not find a send/receive contract to see when it ends. Jamesburg does not see the need to build their own HS for 167 kids and I am sure Monroe appreciates the tuition from Jamesburg for over 20,000 per kid. The more kids they send to the district schools the more they contribute to the school tax. The tax rate in Plainsboro will continue to go up as more and more of their farmland gets gobbled up by the developers. So it had little to do with outsiders influence on the ratings. It seems we can fill up schools faster than we can build them. The WW-P school district simply could not accommodate over 225 kids from Jamesburg. We currently have 4 elementary schools, 2 upper elementary schools, 2 middle schools and 2 HS's. When we first moved here the district had 3 small elementary schools, 1 middle school and 1 HS. HS-south opened in 1973 and HS-north in 1997, prior to that the kids went to Princeton HS. WW and Plainsboro districts merged in 1969 to accommodate the growing population. In our old neighborhood several of the residents here are originals from the '50's, they have been a wealth of info! (Plus the WW historical society). We've lived in WW for over 25 years and have watched the whole area change. It came in at number 82 (out of 330+ HS's) in NJ monthly 2012 school rankings. The number of kids Jamesburg sends to Monroe is down from 225 in 2011 to 167 in 2014.Ī demographic of note is the large number of senior communities in Monroe, they have not been overly supportive of the schools and the tax increases.īut Monroe HS still scores very well on several of the school rating sites. Monroe is charging Jamesburg about 20K per student per year. A couple of years ago they asked WW and Freehold if they could send their kids there. Jamesburg has been concerned about the increasing tuition paid to Monroe (especially since Monroe built the new HS). Lawrence ended their relationship with Robbinsville about 6(?) years ago because they could no longer support the burgeoning population from Robbinsville. ![]() I suspect that either district can end the relationship when the current contract expires. The send/receive relationship between Jamesburg and Monroe has been on going for more than 30 years.
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