Wedgwood Elementary to Welcome Kindergarten Class to School Beginning in 2021-22 School Year
Beginning at the start of the 2021-22 school year, kindergarten students housed in the Wedgwood Elementary School sending area, who had previously attended kindergarten at the Grenloch Terrace Early Childhood Center, will return to their home school for kindergarten.
The District has projected the creation of three kindergarten classes at Wedgwood. A class size of 20 students per class will align with the District average.
"Recent enrollment projections and adequate classroom space now allow us to include the Wedgwood kindergarten students with their siblings at the school,” Director of Elementary Education Gretchen Gerber said. “We are grateful to GTECC for housing the Wedgwood kindergartners since we expanded our program to a full-day platform in 2016-17 and are excited to be able to return Wedgwood’s youngest learners to their neighborhood school.”
“The announcement of kindergarten returning to Wedgwood is a very exciting moment in our school’s story,” Wedgwood Principal Charlie Zimmerman said. “This move will allow our students to develop even deeper connections to our Wedgwood School community. Our staff is proud to play a role in our District’s continued commitment to providing a high-quality educational experience to our students in their earliest grades, so that they may be positioned for success in the years to come. We look forward to welcoming our newest Mustangs in the coming month.”
Kindergarten students attending the Washington Township Public Schools will now be enrolled at one of five locations: Bells Elementary (Bells sending zone), Birches (Birches sending zone), Grenloch Terrace Early Childhood Center (Hurffville Elementary sending zone), Thomas Jefferson Elementary (Thomas Jefferson sending zone) and Whitman Elementary (Whitman sending zone). A complete list of sending zones, alphabetical by street, is available on the District website (www.wtps.org) under the Registration Department tab.
Please note: Parents of Wedgwood Elementary School kindergarten students will continue to report to GTECC to complete their kindergarten snapshots upon enrollment. Please do not go to Wedgwood for snapshot appointments.