# East Windsor Regional School District

The East Windsor Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, which serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from East Windsor and Hightstown.
As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of six schools, had an enrollment of 5,138 students and 450.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1.
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.
Public school students in seventh through twelfth grades from Roosevelt Borough (a community in Monmouth County) are sent to the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Roosevelt Public School District.

## Awards and recognition

Fourteen EWRSD teachers were selected to participate in Princeton University's "Teachers as Scholars" Program (TAS) for the 2005–2006 school year. Started at Harvard University in 1996 and brought to Princeton in 2000, the TAS program offers a variety of seminars and workshops for school district teachers in a university setting, taught by the faculty and staff of Princeton University.

## Schools

Schools in the district (with 2022–23 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

### Elementary schools

* Walter C. Black Elementary School with 480 students in grades K-2
** Heather Gladkowski, principal
* Ethel McKnight Elementary School with 589 students in grades K-2
** Nicole Foulks, principal
* Perry L. Drew Elementary School with 579 students in grades 3-5
** Jazmyn Allen, principal
* Grace N. Rogers Elementary School with 611 students in grades PreK / 3-5
** Lori Emmerson, principal

### Middle school

* Melvin H. Kreps Middle School with 1,176 students in grades 6-8
** Samantha Felicetta, principal

### High school

* Hightstown High School with 1,644 students in grades 9-12
** Dennis M. Vinson Jr., principal

## Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:
* Mark Daniels, superintendent
* Paul Todd, business administrator and board secretary

## Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. 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. The seats on the board of education are allocated based on the population of the constituent municipalities, with seven seats assigned to East Windsor and two to Hightstown.