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West Orange
West Orange is a township in central Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 44,943. West Orange adjoins the South Mountain Reservation.
The West Orange Public Schools serves students in Kindergarten through 12th grade, including a total of eleven school facilities. Schools in the district (with 2006-07 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[17]) are seven elementary schools (all K-5, except as noted) ? Gregory (497 students), Hazel Avenue (321), Mount Pleasant (381), Pleasantdale (PreK-5; 474), Redwood (493), St. Cloud (356) and Washington (412) ? three middle schools ? Edison (6; 451), Liberty (7&8; 533) and Roosevelt (7&8; 393) ? and one high school, West Orange High School (2,011), for grades 9-12. In the 1990s, the West Orange school district was ranked among the top 1% of schools in the nation by The Washington Post.
For years West Orange has been a hotbed for the mass-media and telecommunications industries. Edison's Black Maria, the first movie studio ever, was located here. Several broadcast antennas are located in the town. From the mid-1970s until the early 1990s Channel 68 TV maintained their offices, studios and transmitter on Eagle Rock Avenue which was later occupied by WNBC-TV and WPXN-TV as a backup transmitter facility after Channel 68 moved to West Market Street in Newark.
Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless all have cell towers located throughout the township to provide clear coverage and Verizon maintains a huge Central Office on Prospect Avenue.
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