Education
The Cranford Township Public Schools are a comprehensive and successful public school system, which is governed by a nine-person elected Board of Education. The system's high school, Cranford High School was ranked as one of the top 15 high schools in New Jersey in 2010 and has won a series of national and statewide awards for its innovative curriculum. Cranford High School has a curriculum which has a strong push for technology in the schools, along with stressing service learning. The high school is recognized for its work in service learning and for being a national school of character. Cranford High School students are regularly admitted to some of the nation's top private and public universities, with over 90% of each graduating class going onto college.
Schools in the district (with 2009-10 from the National Center for Education Statistics.) are Bloomingdale Avenue School (237 students in grades K-2), Brookside Place School (402; K-5), Hillside Avenue School (724; K-8), Walnut Avenue School (307; PreK-2), Livingston Avenue School (244; 3-5), Orange Avenue School (782; 3-8) and Cranford High School (1,165; 9-12).
Lincoln School, which is the home of the district's administrative offices, also houses the districts two alternative education programs, CAP and CAMP.
In addition to the public education system, Cranford houses several religious and private schools. Saint Michael's School, located in downtown Cranford, is a major Roman Catholic parochial school which offers Nursery through Grade 8 and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Elementary Schools, operating under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.
The main campus of Union County College, New Jersey's oldest community college dating back to 1933, is located in Cranford. The Cranford campus, one of four county locations, was established in 1956.
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