Editing Millstone, New Jersey (section)

==Education==

Several [[Classical education movement|classical schools]] operated in the Millstone area. Queens College was relocated to Millstone in 1780 during the war. In 1814, a two-story building called the Academy was established as a co-ed public school on the lot owned by Daniel Disborough.<ref name="snell">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924104752518|title=History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers | editor-first=James P. |editor-last=Snell | date=June 6, 1881|publisher=Everts & Peck|access-date=June 6, 2018|via=Internet Archive|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924104752518/page/n986 787]-788}}</ref><ref name="millstone MP">{{cite web | url=http://www.millstoneboro.org/docs/reference/master_plan/FINAL_MP_Assessment.pdf | title=Millstone Borough Master Plan | work=Millstone Borough | access-date=June 6, 2018}}</ref> In 1860, the school was relocated to a newly constructed building later to be known as the Millstone Borough Schoolhouse, which then operated until 1940, after which it was known as [[Millstone Historic District|Millstone Borough Hall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://visitsomersetnj.org/fun-somerset-nj/millstone-borough-hall/|title=Millstone Borough Hall|work= - Visit Somerset County NJ|access-date=June 6, 2018}}</ref><ref name="millstone MP"/><ref name="nrhpnom">{{cite journal
|url={{NRHP url|id=76001188}}
|title=NRHP Nomination: Millstone Historic District
|last1=McCabe|first1=Wayne T.
|date=September 13, 1976
|publisher=National Park Service}}
{{cite journal
|url={{NRHP url|id=76001188|photos=y}} 
|title=Accompanying 16 photos, from 1974.}}</ref> Another classical school focusing on Latin started in 1826 at the home of Dominie Zabriskie.<ref name="millstone MP"/> [[Joseph P. Bradley]], who would later become a [[U.S. Supreme Court Justice]], also taught at a classical school in Millstone after graduating at Rutgers in 1836 and before attending law school where he was barred in 1839.<ref name="snell"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=weA7BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA772|title=States at War, Volume 4: A Reference Guide for Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey in the Civil War|first=Richard F.|last=Miller|date=February 3, 2015|publisher=University Press of New England|isbn=9781611686227|access-date=June 6, 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="Appletons">{{cite book|title=Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BqYoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA536|year=1893|publisher=D. Appleton & Company|page=536}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lxdMAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Millstone+Academy%22 ''Rutgers Law Journal, Volume 33, Issue 2''], Rutgers School of Law, Camden. Accessed June 4, 2018. "Abraham O. Zabriskie was born on June 10, 1807 in Greenbush, near Albany, New York. At age four, he moved with his family to Millstone, Somerset County, New Jersey where he received a thorough education at the Millstone Academy and under the tutelage of his father, a pastor."</ref>

There are no public schools currently operating in Millstone Borough; students attend public school in the [[Hillsborough Township School District]], in [[Hillsborough Township, New Jersey|Hillsborough Township]] as part of a [[sending/receiving relationship]].<ref>[http://www.co.somerset.nj.us/home/showdocument?id=12598 Somerset County School Districts-Sending/Receiving/Regional], [[Somerset County, New Jersey|Somerset County]] Superintendent of Schools. Accessed May 19, 2017. "Millstone / Non-Operating / K-12 Sent To Hillsborough"</ref><ref>[http://www.co.somerset.nj.us/home/showdocument?id=17946#page=23 ''2016-2017 Somerset County Public School Directory''], [[Somerset County, New Jersey]]. Accessed May 19, 2017.</ref> As of the 2018–2019 school year, the district, comprised of nine schools, had an enrollment of 7,457 students and 645.4 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 11.6:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3407230&DistrictID=3407230 District information for Hillsborough Township Public School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed April 1, 2020.</ref>