Plainsboro Township, New Jersey Plainsboro Township, New Jersey Location of Plainsboro Township in Middlesex County.
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Location of Plainsboro Township in Middlesex County.
Inset: Location of Middlesex County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Plainsboro Township, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Plainsboro Township, New Jersey Plainsboro Township is a township in Middlesex County in the U.S.
Plainsboro was incorporated as a township on May 6, 1919, from lands north of Plainsboro Road and Dey Road that had been part of South Brunswick Township and lands south of Plainsboro Road and Dey Road that had been part of Cranbury Township. The chief impetus towards the creation of the township was the lack of schools serving the area; a new school was constructed after the township was established, which still exists as J.V.B.
Plainsboro was officially established on May 6, 1919, and was formed from sections of Cranbury and South Brunswick townships. Plainsboro Township was created in response to Cranbury and South Brunswick refusing to build a new fireproof and larger school in Plainsboro Village. Every year, the date is jubilated with a parade, festival, and a concert.
The Village Center also homes a new $12.4 million Plainsboro Library, which opened on April 10, 2010. The township broke ground on July 27, for two new buildings that will host medical offices, additional retail space and eight residentiary condominium units.
The new hospital and 171-acre (69 ha) medical ground will include a undivided medical office building attached to the hospital, a world-class education center, a community and public center, a skilled nursing facility, a pediatric services facility and a 32-acre (13 ha) enhance park. Officials at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced they will be opening a facility in Plainsboro on 13 acres (5.3 ha) of the new hospital campus. Plainsboro Center (with a 2010 Enumeration population of 2,712) and Princeton Meadows (13,834 as of 2010) are unincorporated communities and census-designated places (CDPs) positioned inside Plainsboro Township. The township borders Cranbury Township and South Brunswick Township in Middlesex County, and East Windsor Township, Princeton and West Windsor Township in Mercer County. This was the second-highest percentage (behind Edison) of Indian American citizens in any municipality in the United States with 1,000 or more inhabitants identifying their ancestry. In the 2000 census, 8.55% of Plainsboro Township's inhabitants identified themselves as being of Chinese ancestry.
This was the second-highest percentage (behind Holmdel Township) of citizens with Chinese lineage in any municipality in New Jersey with 1,000 or more inhabitants identifying their ancestry. Plainsboro Township is governed by a Township Committee form of New Jersey municipal government.
A Township Administrator appointed by the Township Committee oversees Plainsboro's experienced employees.
Plainsboro Township is positioned in the 12th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 14th state legislative district. New Jersey's Twelfth Congressional District is represented by Bonnie Watson Coleman (D, Ewing Township). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Benson (D, Hamilton Township, Mercer County) and Wayne De - Angelo (D, Hamilton Township). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). Rios (D, term ends December 31, 2015, Carteret; Ex-officio on all committees), Freeholder Deputy Director Carol Barrett Bellante (D, 2017; Monmouth Junction, South Brunswick Township; County Administration), Kenneth Armwood (D, 2016, Piscataway; Business Development and Education), Charles Kenny ( D, 2016, Woodbridge Township; Finance), H.
Plainsboro and West Windsor are part of a combined school district, the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, which serves students in kindergarten through twelfth undertaking from the two communities in four elementary schools (grades K - 3), two upper elementary schools (grades 4 and 5), two middle schools (grades 6 - 8) and two high schools (grades 9 - 12).
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's 10 schools had an enrollment of 9,804 students and 716.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 13.69:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Dutch Neck Elementary School (located in Princeton Junction: serving grades K-3; with 748 students), Maurice Hawk Elementary School (Princeton Junction: K-3; 877), Town Center Elementary School (Plainsboro Township: K-3; 667), J.V.B.
Wicoff Elementary School (Plainsboro Township: K-3; 471), Millstone River Elementary School (Plainsboro Township: 4&5, 843), Village Elementary School (Princeton Junction: 4&5; 628), Community Middle School (Plainsboro Township: 6-8; 1,166), Thomas Grover Middle School (Princeton Junction: 6-8; 1,100), West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North (Plainsboro Township: 9-12; 1,659) and West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South (Princeton Junction: 9-12; 1,645). West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North was the 32nd-ranked enhance high school, and South was 62nd-ranked, in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South was recognized amid the 1992-93 school year and Maurice Hawk Elementary School was recognized in 1993-94, while West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North was recognized in the 2006-07 school year. As of May 2010, the township had a total of 64.94 miles (104.51 km) of roadways, of which 55.78 miles (89.77 km) were maintained by the municipality, 7.06 miles (11.36 km) by Middlesex County and 2.10 miles (3.38 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. The closest limited access road is the New Jersey Turnpike which is accessible from Interchange 8 in neighboring East Windsor Township and Interchange 8 - A in Monroe Township.
"Plainsboro High" is a fictional New Jersey high school around which the HBO film, Rocket Science, is based.
See also: Category:People from Plainsboro Township, New Jersey.
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