The Union Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Union Township, in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising 10 schools, had an enrollment of 7,219 students and 614.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-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. Union was threatened with being the first town north of the Mason–Dixon line to suffer from penalties as a result of school segregation. The area of Vauxhall was primarily black and Jefferson Elementary School was disproportionately black compared to the rest of the town. Union avoided problems by converting Jefferson Elementary into a sixth-grade only school called Central 6 and bused all children in the district in 6th grade to Jefferson Elementary School. It was later renamed Central 5 housing all fifth-grade students because the two junior highs, Burnet and Kawameeh, became middle schools and took on sixth grade students. Schools The schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are: Elementary schools Battle Hill Elementary School (391 students; in grades PreK-4) Althea Bossard, Principal Hannah Caldwell Elementary School (508; PreK-4) Kathryn DiGiovanni, Principal Connecticut Farms Elementary School (403; PreK-4) Michelle C. Osborne-Warren, Principal Franklin Elementary School (417; PreK-4) Kira Baskerville-Williams, Principal Livingston Elementary School (424; PreK-4) Benjamin Kloc, Principal Washington Elementary School (575; PreK-4) Thomas O. Matthews, Principal Jefferson Elementary School (544; in grade 5) Laura Damato, Principal Middle schools Burnet Middle School (961; 6–8) David Shaw, Principal Kawameeh Middle School (674; 6–8) Jason Malanda, Principal High school Union High School (2,180; 9–12) Mark Hoyt, Interim Principal Administration Core members of the district's administration are: Dr. Scott Taylor, Superintendent Gerry Benaquista, Assistant Superintendent Yolanda Koon, School Business Administrator / Board Secretary Board of education The district's board of education, with 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