Maurice Hawk Elementary School

Maurice Hawk Elementary School is a neighborhood public lower elementary school serving students in Kindergarten to Third grade in the Princeton Junction section of West Windsor Township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the school had an enrollment of 877 students and 52.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 16.82:1. There were 27 students (3.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 8 (0.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. Maurice Hawk is in a relatively diverse neighborhood with 64.9% of students speaking English as a first language. 16.0% of students speak Hindi as a first language and 5.7% of students were considered "Limited English Proficient".
Awards and recognition
Maurice Hawk Elementary School was recognized during the 1993-94 school year with the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.
The New Jersey Department of Education's Best Practices/STAR Program has recognized it in the area of educational technology. Maurice Hawk is also a participant in the E=mc program developing inquiry-based, constructivist science programs.
JerseyCAN ranked Maurice Hawk Elementary School as the #8 elementary school (tied with two other schools) out of over 1,300 elementary schools in New Jersey in 2013.

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