Norwalk Public Schools
| Norwalk, Connecticut Public School District |
|
|---|---|
| Type and location | |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Established | 1678 |
| Country | United States |
| Location | Southwestern Connecticut, Fairfield County |
| District Info | |
| Superintendent | Susan F. Marks |
| Budget | $133 million (2005-06) |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 11000 |
| Athletic Conference | FCIAC |
| Other information | |
| Website | http://www.norwalkpublicschools.org/ |
Norwalk was granted a town charter by the Connecticut General Court in 1651. Later, on May 29 1678 town records mention the establishment of the community supported teaching activities with a passage that reads:
- At a town meeting... voted and agreed to hier a scole master to teach all the children in ye town to lerne to Rede and write; and that Mr. Cornish shall be hierd for that service and the townsmen are to hier him upon as reasonable terms as they can.
The school that was established in the 1670s was located near the Ludlow Square area of East Norwalk (that is, near the former Roger Ludlow Junior High School).
Recent Norwalk public school graduates have gone on to attend universities such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, New York University, and Wesleyan. The current superintendent of Norwalk Public Schools is Susan F. Marks, Ph.D.
In the 2005-06 fiscal year, the school system spent $26.7 million on special education services, nearly 20 percent of the total school budget.
The State Education Department announced on January 28, 2008 that Norwalk was one of twelve districts in the state that it would help to close student achievement gaps.
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