History

Saint James School is a private Catholic School for children from Pre-Kindergarten through Eighth Grade.  From its modest beginning in 1965 with 88 first, second and third graders taught in the old Lee Mansion Carriage House, St. James has progressively grown to 473 students.  The present building was completed in the 1968-1969 school year.  In 1990, a gymnasium with two extra classrooms was built onto the existing school building.

In 1990, a second full-day kindergarten class was added.  Each year after that a second class of each successive grade was formed accounting for our current structure of two sections of all grades from Kindergarten through Eighth.  In September of 2003 St. James opened its Early Childhood Developmental Center.  The program has grown from 32 students to its present 109 students.  We currently have a faculty of 22 full-time teachers, 10 part-time faculty and 6 aides.  Our nurses' office is staffed by the VNA of Somerset County.  Hot Lunch is available for the students Monday through Friday which is provided by Maschio's Food Service.