Editing Trenton, New Jersey (section)

===Public schools===
The [[Trenton Public Schools]] serve students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[twelfth grade]].<ref>[https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=d869aa2e299245a8b02ad50437478be8 Trenton Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523025526/https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=d869aa2e299245a8b02ad50437478be8 |date=May 23, 2023 }}, [[Trenton Public Schools]]. Accessed March 15, 2020. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through twelve in the Trenton School District. Composition: The Trenton School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the City of Trenton."</ref> The district is one of 31 former [[Abbott district]]s statewide that were established pursuant to the decision by the [[New Jersey Supreme Court]] in ''Abbott v. Burke''<ref>[https://www.njsda.gov/About/WhatWeDo#History What We Do: History] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325224335/https://www.njsda.gov/About/WhatWeDo#History |date=March 25, 2022 }}, [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]]. Accessed March 1, 2022. "In 1998, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in the ''Abbott v. Burke'' case that the State must provide 100 percent funding for all school renovation and construction projects in special-needs school districts. According to the Court, aging, unsafe and overcrowded buildings prevented children from receiving the "thorough and efficient" education required under the New Jersey Constitution.... Full funding for approved projects was authorized for the 31 special-needs districts, known as 'Abbott Districts'."</ref> which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]].<ref>[https://www.njsda.gov/About/WhatWeDo What We Do] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325224335/https://www.njsda.gov/About/WhatWeDo |date=March 25, 2022 }}, [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]]. Accessed March 1, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.njsda.gov/Content/FactSheets/31_SDA_Districts.pdf SDA Districts] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325224328/https://www.njsda.gov/Content/FactSheets/31_SDA_Districts.pdf |date=March 25, 2022 }}, [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]]. Accessed March 1, 2022.</ref> The district's [[board of education]], comprised of seven members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its superintendent administration. As a Type I school district, the board's trustees are appointed by the mayor to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats up for re-appointment each year. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district.<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/dwb/DistrictByTypeList2018.pdf New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203160033/https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/dwb/DistrictByTypeList2018.pdf |date=February 3, 2022 }}, [[New Jersey Department of Education]], updated February 16, 2018. Accessed January 26, 2020.</ref><ref>[http://www.trentonk12.org/BoardofEducation.aspx Board of Education] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325185724/http://www.trentonk12.org/BoardofEducation.aspx |date=March 25, 2020 }}, [[Trenton Public Schools]]. Accessed March 15, 2020.</ref> The school district has undergone a 'construction' renaissance throughout the district.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}
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As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of 25 schools, had an enrollment of 14,852 students and 966.4 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 15.4:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3416290&DistrictID=3416290 District information for Trenton Public School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> The district includes 13 elementary schools,<ref>[https://www.trentonk12.org/schools/grades_pre-_k-3 Grades PreK-3], Trenton Public Schools. Accessed May 4, 2024.</ref> six intermediate schools,<ref name="TrentonIntermediate2024">{{Cite web |url= https://www.trentonk12.org/schools/grades_4-6 |title= Grades 4-6 |publisher= Trenton Public School District |date= 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240422044202/https://www.trentonk12.org/schools/grades_4-6 |archive-date= April 22, 2024 }}</ref> three middle schools,<ref name="TrentonMiddle2024">{{Cite web |url= https://www.trentonk12.org/schools/grades_7-8 |title= Grades 7-8 |publisher= Trenton Public School District |date= 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240422044319/https://www.trentonk12.org/schools/grades_7-8 |archive-date= April 22, 2024 }}</ref> and three high schools.<ref name="TrentonHigh2024">{{Cite web |url= https://www.trentonk12.org/schools/grades_9-12 |title= Grades 9-12 |publisher= Trenton Public School District |date= 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240422044203/https://www.trentonk12.org/schools/grades_9-12 |archive-date= April 22, 2024 }}</ref> They are as follows:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name
! Grade(s)
! Enrollment (2022–23)<ref name=NCES2>{{Cite web |url= https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3416290 |title= Search Results |publisher= [[National Center for Education Statistics]] |date= 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240422053857/https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3416290 |archive-date= April 22, 2024 }}</ref>
|-
| Early Childhood Learning Center
| Pre-Kindergarten
| N/A
|-
| Benjamin C. Gregory Elementary School
| rowspan=13 |K–3rd
| 269
|-
| Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
| 349
|-
| Cadwalader Elementary School
| 163
|-
| Carroll Robbins Elementary School
| 413
|-
| Darlene C. McKnight Elementary School
| 361
|-
| Dr. Crosby Copeland Elementary School
| 296
|-
| George Washington Elementary School
| 289
|-
| Gershom Mott Elementary School
| 357
|-
| Joseph Stokes Elementary School
| 306
|-
| Luis Muñoz-Rivera Elementary School
| 366
|-
| Patton J. Hill Elementary School
| 502
|-
| Paul Robeson Elementary School
| 341
|-
| William Harrison Elementary School
| 239
|-
| Battle Monument Intermediate School
| rowspan=6 |4th–6th
| 460
|-
| Clara Parker Intermediate School
| 515
|-
| Hedgepeth-Williams Intermediate School
| 582
|-
| Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School
| 498
|-
| Thomas Jefferson Intermediate School
| 354
|-
| Ulysses S. Grant Intermediate School
| 542
|-
| Arthur J. Holland Middle School
| rowspan=3 |7th–8th
| 513
|-
| Dr. MLK Jr. Middle School
| 568
|-
| Grace A. Dunn Middle School
| 670
|-
| Daylight/Twilight High School
| 7th–12th
| 479
|-
| Trenton's Ninth Grade Academy
| 9th
| 796
|-
| Trenton Central High School
| 9th–12th
| 2,255
|}

Eighth-grade students from all of Mercer County are eligible to apply to attend the high school programs offered by the [[Mercer County Technical Schools]], a county-wide vocational school district that offers full-time career and technical education at its Health Sciences Academy, STEM Academy and Academy of Culinary Arts, with no tuition charged to students for attendance.<ref>Heyboer, Kelly. [https://www.nj.com/education/2017/05/how_to_get_your_kid_into_one_of_njs_elite_high_sch.html "How to get your kid a seat in one of N.J.'s hardest-to-get-into high schools"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518170614/https://www.nj.com/education/2017/05/how_to_get_your_kid_into_one_of_njs_elite_high_sch.html |date=May 18, 2022 }}, NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], May 2017. Accessed November 18, 2019. "Mercer County has a stand-alone specialized high school for top students: a Health Sciences Academy at the district's Assunpink Center campus. The district also offers a STEM Academy at Mercer County Community College. How to apply: Students can apply online in the fall of their 8th grade year."</ref><ref>[https://www.mcts.edu/high-school-programs/ High School Programs] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810212424/https://www.mcts.edu/high-school-programs/ |date=August 10, 2020 }}, [[Mercer County Technical Schools]]. Accessed November 18, 2019.</ref>

[[Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf]] (previously New Jersey School for the Deaf and New Jersey State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb), the statewide school for the deaf, opened in Trenton in 1883 and was there until 1923, when it moved to [[West Trenton, New Jersey|West Trenton]].<ref>Kull, Helen. [https://www.communitynews.org/news/commentary/ewing-then-and-now-the-first-school-for-the-deaf-in-n-j/article_96dcc915-5b86-5094-b39a-2fbcd7f471c8.html "Ewing Then and Now: The first school for the deaf in N.J."] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202720/https://www.communitynews.org/news/commentary/ewing-then-and-now-the-first-school-for-the-deaf-in-n-j/article_96dcc915-5b86-5094-b39a-2fbcd7f471c8.html |date=June 24, 2021 }}, ''Community News'', February 27, 2017, updated January 11, 2022. Accessed January 19, 2022. "By 1882, an act of the legislature founded the ''N.J. State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.'' The school was housed in a two-story, brick building at Chestnut and Hamilton avenues in Trenton, which had formerly been the Soldiers’ Children’s Home of N.J., housing orphans of Civil War soldiers."</ref>

====Charter schools====
Trenton is home to several [[charter school]]s, including [[Capital Preparatory Charter High School]], Emily Fisher Charter School, [[Foundation Academy Charter School]], International Charter School, Paul Robeson Charter School and Village Charter School.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/education/charter/charter1.pl Approved Charter Schools] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131028020542/http://www.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/education/charter/charter1.pl |date=October 28, 2013 }}, [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 12, 2014.</ref>

The International Academy of Trenton, owned and monitored by the [[SABIS]] school network, became a charter school in 2014. On February 22, 2017, Trenton's mayor, Eric Jackson, visited the school when it opened its doors in the former ''[[The Times (Trenton)|Trenton Times]]'' building on 500 Perry Street, after completion of a $17&nbsp;million renovation project. After receiving notice from the [[New Jersey Department of Education]] that the school's charter would not be renewed due to issues with academic performance and school management, the school closed its doors on June 30, 2018.<ref>Foster, David. [http://www.trentonian.com/general-news/20180601/trenton-charter-school-officially-announces-closure-as-9th-grade-academy-readies-move-in "Trenton charter school officially announces closure as 9th Grade Academy readies move-in"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712054121/http://www.trentonian.com/general-news/20180601/trenton-charter-school-officially-announces-closure-as-9th-grade-academy-readies-move-in |date=July 12, 2018 }}, ''[[The Trentonian]]'', June 1, 2018. Accessed July 11, 2018. "In a statement sent to The Trentonian on Friday, International Academy of Trenton (IAT) Charter School Board President Larry Chenault 'regretfully' accepted the doomed fate of the school, which spent $17&nbsp;million to renovate the former Times of Trenton building into a state-of-the-art learning center.... IAT was informed in January by the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) that the school, which educated 650 students, would be losing its charter at the end of this month for poor student performance and classroom mismanagement."</ref>