Resources to help you make informed choices about schools for you, your family and your employees.
No matter what level of education you are seeking for you and/or your family or need to insure a local supply of properly trained employees and continuing education programs, the New Jersey / Delaware Valley area has a tremendous variety of options for schools to met any requirements. They provide opportunities for you to experience scholastic excellence, technology training, athletic competition and recreation at all Division levels, as well as great social and networking environments.
For higher education, we have the top-rated Wharton School (MBA) at the Pennniversity of Pennsylvania (Penn) in Philadelphia, Rutgers University campuses, several nationally recognized medical-related colleges, as well as many other excellent graduate and undergraduate schools and universities. Their proximity allows you options to live on campus or in nearby housing, communite full-time or attend evening or weekend programs.
There are excellent community colleges in the New Jersey system. They have solid educational programs as well as competitive athletic programs. For example, check out Burlington Community College (BCC), and the Burlington County Institute of Technology (BCIT), as well as Gloucester , Camden and Mercer County Community Colleges
We have some of the best communities in the country, with comparable schools that are strong scholastically with top-ranked athletic programs. For example, Lenape Regional high schools in Burlington County have received all-state and national rankings -- for example, coaches choice as #3 of all schools (#1 public school in 2003) in nation (#1 region) for soccer -- they compete at the highest school levels of competition and are consistantly all league, all conference, all region winners in all participating sports.
As with any region, there a variety of types of communities for you to choose from, with different strengths and weaknesses. To help you determine the best school system for you, below are online resources that provide "school reports", educational institutional directories and information, giving answers to most of your questions about educational performance and results, teacher-pupil ratios, percentages of graduates, those going on to college and more...
New Jersey Schools:
| NJ Department of Education | NJ Dept of Education: Guides, Services, NJ Schools Directory, FAQs. |
| NJ School Web Sites | Web sites about New Jersey schools. These links may or may not be "official" pages for these towns. They contain some useful information about the municipality and its surrounding area. |
| Good News About NJ Public Schools | New Jersey public schools - information supplied by the NEA. |
| NJ School Report Cards | New Jersey School Reports Cards, provided by state of NJ Dept. of Educ. presents thirty-five fields of information for each school in the following categories: school environment, students, student performance indicators, staff, and district finances. See also: NJ NCLB School, District, and State Reports New Standards Resource with Related Activities New Jersey Textbook Sharing(at http://education.state.nj.us/) |
| NJ K-12 Schools Web Directory | K-12 Schools Web Directory - NJ |
| NJ Colleges | NJ Edge - Information about New Jersey's colleges and universities and related educational programs. |
| School Surveys | Sperling's BestPlaces.net school profiles. |
| GreatSchools.net | Online guide to K-12 Schools in NJ and national. |
Regional and National Schools:
| GreatSchools.net | Online guide to K-12 Schools. |
| The School Report | Report card on your school system. (Plus, access to additional reports on city, crime; community, salary and additional calculators; etc.) |
| NECS School Statistics | Statistics for Schools, Colleges and Libraries provided by the NCES (National Center for Educational Statistics). |
| School Profiles | Yahoo School Profiles |
| National Fed. of State HS Assocs. | NFHS - National Association of State High School Associations. |
| iHigh.com | iHigh.com provides high schools with a web site that connects scholastic, sports and activities. |
| K-12 Schools Web Directory | K-12 Schools Web Directory |
| Yahoo Directory of Schools K-12 | Yahoo directory of schools K-12 (Public and Private) |
| School Surveys | Sperling's BestPlaces.net school profiles. |
| Princeton Review | Reports, tools, news, advice, reviews, opinions about top colleges and graduate schools. Help with finding the school that's right for you. This site is informative, interesting and fun. |
| GradSchools.com | Resource for graduate school information with over 58,000 programs listed. The site contains a directory categorized by curriculum and subdivided by geography. Users select their desired curriculum to receive information about those particular graduate programs. |
| StudyAbroad.com | StudyAbroad.com provides information on educational opportunities for students to study in other countries. It is a directory of study abroad programs, summer study abroad, Internship, service learning and volunteer abroad programs, intensive language programs all organized either study abroad by subject or study abroad by country or study abroad by city. |
| College Coaches Online | Helps student-athletes find the colleges that match their academic and athletic ability, while allowing you to select a school size, cost and location. Find coach names and contact information for NCAA (Divisions I, II and III) and NAIA schools. [Note: FEE required] |
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