The Cranford Township Public Schools is a comprehensive public school district serving students in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade in Cranford in Union County, New Jersey, United States. The district is governed by a nine-member elected board of education. As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of seven schools, had an enrollment of 3,853 students and 323.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-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. Schools Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are: Elementary schools Bloomingdale Avenue School with 255 students in grades K-2 Lourdes Murphy, Principal Brookside Place School with 365 students in grades K-5 Michael Klimko, Principal Hillside Avenue School with 702 students in grades K-8 Kevin Deacon, Principal Livingston Avenue School with 251 students in grades 3-5 Cari Lopez, Principal Orange Avenue School with 738 students in grades 3-8 Lori Lubieski-Hutmaker, Principal Walnut Avenue School with 312 students in grades PreK-2 Celine McNally, Principal High school Cranford High School with 1,233 students in grades 9-12 Mark Cantagallo, Principal The system's high school was the 49th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology, after having been ranked 51st in the state out of 328 schools in 2012. 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. Cranford has two public middle schools, Orange Avenue School and Hillside Avenue School, which are located on each end of the township and serve their local neighborhood. Both also are elementary schools as well. On the north side of Cranford, along with Orange Avenue, are two other