It All Started With The New School

In the late 1800’s Cranbury Township had five school districts, each with their own small school:

The North School (also called the Bunker Hill School)
The South School
The Plainsboro School (also called the Scotts Corner School)
The Wyckoff’s Mills School
The Cranbury Neck School

Click on the map on the left to see the locations of these schools in 1876.

By the 1890’s, all of these schools were beginning to reach their end-of-life. On May 25, 1896, Cranbury voters approved the funding for the construction of a new, consolidated grade school. Ground was broken in 1896 and the new central school opened on January 25, 1897.

South School, circa 1897, located on what is now 38 S. Main St.

Bunker Hill School, circa 1936, the largest of the five schools

The new central school, circa 1900, without a clock face

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