Editing Cranbury, New Jersey (section)

== Education ==
[[File:PrincetonHighSchool Front.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Princeton High School (New Jersey)|Princeton High School]]]]
{{Main|Cranbury School District}}
The [[Cranbury School District]] serves children in public school for [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]] at Cranbury School.<ref>[https://4.files.edl.io/42c8/10/03/18/132749-ae3e3d27-e3df-4df7-a46d-a3e2bd941f64.pdf Cranbury Township Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Cranbury School District. Accessed September 23, 2024. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades K through 8 in the Cranbury School District. Composition: The Cranbury School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Cranbury Township."</ref><ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/23/0970 School Performance Reports for the Cranbury Township School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed April 3, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/0970 New Jersey School Directory for the Cranbury School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 453 students and 59.1 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 7.7:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3403540&DistrictID=3403540 District information for Cranbury Township School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> For the 2016–17 school year, Cranbury School was formally designated as a [[National Blue Ribbon Schools Program|National Blue Ribbon School]], the highest honor that an American public school can achieve. This was also earned during the 1996–97 and 2009-10 school years.<ref>[https://nationalblueribbonschools.ed.gov/assets/reports/2019/1982_to_2019_nbrs_schools.pdf National Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982 Through 2019 (PDF)], [[United States Department of Education]]. Accessed September 1, 2024.</ref><ref>[http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/2009/national.pdf#page=13 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools: All Public and Private Schools], [[United States Department of Education]], p. 13. Accessed July 15, 2011.</ref><ref>[https://www2.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/2016/national.pdf#page=20 2016 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Non-Public], [[National Blue Ribbon Schools Program]]. Accessed November 13, 2016.</ref>

For [[ninth grade|ninth]] through [[twelfth grade]]s, students move on to [[Princeton High School (New Jersey)|Princeton High School]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], as part of a [[sending/receiving relationship]] with the [[Princeton Public Schools]].<ref name=NYT1997/><ref>[http://www.nj.gov/education/pr/1415/narrative/21/4255/000.html Princeton Public Schools 2015 Report Card Narrative], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed June 1, 2016. "As we strive to serve the more than 3500 students from the Princeton and Cranbury communities, we do so knowing that our work with them in the classroom, on the athletic field, and on the stage matters deeply to each one and to the larger society into which they will graduate."</ref><ref>Capuzzo, Jill P. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/realestate/cranbury-nj-one-town-many-personalities.html "Cranbury, N.J.: One Town, Many Personalities"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 25, 2014. Accessed November 2, 2014. "About 545 students in prekindergarten through Grade 8 attend Cranbury School, which has twice been recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. For grades 9 to 12, they move on to Princeton High School, where there are 1,445 students."</ref><ref>Staff. [http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2010/03/cranbury_trims_23_jobs_in_wake.html "Cranbury trims 23 jobs in wake of aid reduction"], ''[[The Times (Trenton)|The Times]]'', March 25, 2010. Accessed November 2, 2014. "Cranbury public schools serve about 600 students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]]. The district's high school students attend Princeton High School."</ref> Cranbury Township is granted a seat on the Princeton Regional Schools [[Board of Education]], with the designated representative only voting on issues pertaining to Princeton High School and district-wide issues.<ref>[http://www.princetonk12.org/Board/Members Board of Education Members] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103043816/http://www.princetonk12.org/Board/Members |date=2014-11-03 }}, [[Princeton Public Schools]]. Accessed November 2, 2014.</ref> As of the 2022–23 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,532 students and 130.2 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 11.8:1.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3413410&ID=341341003182 School data for Princeton High School], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> Cranbury students had attended [[Hightstown High School]] and then [[Lawrence High School (New Jersey)|Lawrence High School]] before the relationship was established with Princeton.<ref>Kilby, David. [http://www.centraljersey.com/archives/cranbury-hhs-alumni-recalls-how-school-used-to-be/article_faa02f65-d6ba-5861-b592-df7860b8bc53.html "Cranbury: HHS alumni recalls how school used to be"], CentralJersey.com, June 24, 2011. Accessed October 3, 2017. "Cranbury stopped sending its students to HHS in 1965, then it began sending its students to Hightstown-East Windsor High School. Cranbury students soon would go to Lawrence High School, then to Princeton High School, which is where they go today."</ref>

Eighth grade students from all of Middlesex County are eligible to apply to attend the high school programs offered by the [[Middlesex County Magnet Schools]], a county-wide vocational school district that offers full-time career and technical education at its schools in [[East Brunswick Magnet School|East Brunswick]], [[Edison Academy Magnet School|Edison]], [[Perth Amboy Magnet School|Perth Amboy]], [[Piscataway Magnet School|Piscataway]] and [[Woodbridge Academy Magnet School|Woodbridge Township]], with no tuition charged to students for attendance.<ref>Heyboer, Kelly. [https://www.nj.com/news/g66l-2019/02/1b0ab48c995308/how-to-get-your-kid-a-seat-in-one-of-njs-hardesttogetinto-high-schools.html "How to get your kid a seat in one of N.J.'s hardest-to-get-into high schools"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], February 23, 2019. Accessed February 8, 2025. "Middlesex County has two stand-alone career academies for high-achieving students: the Academy for Science, Math and Engineering Technology, located on the campus of Middlesex County College in Edison, and the Academy for Allied Health and Biomedical Sciences in Woodbridge. How to apply: Students must attend a mandatory information session and submit an application by November of their 8th grade year."</ref><ref>[https://www.mcmsnj.net/about About Our Schools], [[Middlesex County Magnet Schools]]. Accessed February 8, 2025. "These high schools are free public schools that offer hands-on, integrated learning opportunities for students in grades 9-12 interested in all types of careers as well as higher education. Any student who resides anywhere in Middlesex County's 25 municipalities student may apply to the school district. If accepted, the home school district will permit the student to attend and will organize daily transportation at no cost to the student's family."</ref>

=== Public libraries ===
The Cranbury Public Library serves Cranbury residents and opened in a brand-new building in November 2022 at 30 Park Place West. Prior to the free-standing building, the library shared a facility with the Cranbury School from 1968 until summer 2020 when the school evicted the library to provide additional learning space during the COVID-19 pandemic. From early 2021 to November 2022, the library operated out of a pocket library on North Main Street. The free-standing library was built with funds donated through a capital campaign by the Cranbury Public Library Foundation from 2010 through 2022, as well as funds from surplus operating revenue saved from prior to 2008 when the Cranbury School started charging rent. In 2020, the library applied for and was awarded a $2.39 million grant from the New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Jersey Library Construction Bond Act |url=https://www.njstatelib.org/services_for_libraries/new-jersey-library-construction-bond-act/ |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=New Jersey State Library |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=NYT1997/><ref>[http://www.cranburypubliclibrary.org/ Home page], Cranbury Public Library. Accessed June 30, 2021.</ref>