I marveled at the size of Trenton Central High School when I toured the facility on a public tour.
It is 380,000 square feet; to put that in perspective, imagine three anchor stores in a suburban shopping center stacked one atop the other. Trenton Central High is the seventh most populous secondary school in the Garden State. With nearly 2,800 students, it has the fourth largest enrollment among urban high schools; among New Jersey’s high schools, only Elizabeth High, Dickinson High (Jersey City) and Eastside (Paterson) enroll more students.
The 75 year-old building has character, as well as a theatre that might have been envied on Broadway half a century ago and a swimming pool that was probably state of the art in its day, but there are the problems that you might expect to find in a structure that’s lasted so long.
The problems do not stop there; the building is just the tip of the iceberg for this troubled school.
The Trenton public school system is “in need of improvement” district-wide under No Child Left Behind, and has entered the later years where the school board and administrators must consider options for...
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