Education

The Edison Township Public Schools serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The district’s two high schools separate the south and north ends of Edison. In the Edison High School zone to the south, there are six K–5 elementary schools, while in the J.P. Stevens High School zone there are five K–5 elementary schools. As of the 2017–2018 school year, the district, comprised of 19 schools, had an enrollment of 16,203 students and 1,029.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.7:1. Schools in the district (with 2017–2018 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Edison Early Learning Center (80 students; grades Pre-K–K), Franklin D. Roosevelt Preschool (140; Pre-K–K), Benjamin Franklin Elementary School (610; K–5), Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School (697; K–5), Lincoln Elementary School (835; K–5), Lindeneau Elementary School (478; K–5), James Madison Primary School (584; K–2, who then move on to James Madison Intermediate), James Madison Intermediate School (663; 3–5), John Marshall Elementary School (846; K–5), Menlo Park Elementary School (857; K–5), James Monroe Elementary School (542; K–5), Washington Elementary School (602; K–5), Woodbrook Elementary School (964; K–5), John Adams Middle School (952; 6–8, from James Madison Intermediate and MLK Jr.), Herbert Hoover Middle School (826; 6–8, from Franklin, Lincoln and Monroe), Thomas Jefferson Middle School (744; 6–8, from Lindeneau, Marshall and Washington), Woodrow Wilson Middle School (1,196; from Menlo Park and Woodbrook),  (1,971; 9–12, from Hoover and Jefferson) and  (2,486; 9–12, from Adams and Wilson).