HC School Foundation

In June 2026, the Hunterdon Central School Foundation, Inc. awarded $7,900 in grants for staff projects. Projects approved included:

• Counseling Department: College planning workshop series and college visit for first generation and under-resourced sophomores and juniors.
• Counseling and Business Departments: Second year of the Positively Promoting Career Clusters joint project between these two departments to enhance students’ understanding of the career clusters through presentations, events, and curriculum.
• Three for the World Language Department: 1) Establish a classroom library to give students consistent access to level-appropriate reading to help them naturally build vocabulary in their target World Language while strengthening their confidence; 2) Field trip for students in the English as a second language class to the New Jersey State Museum in increase their knowledge about the Garden State; and 3) Establish a Cultural Immersion Day designed to engage students in authentic experiences of world language through interactive activities, including language workshops, cultural presentations, food tastings, and real-world communication tasks.
• Two for the Family & Consumer Science Department: 1) Rent a chick incubator to hatch chickens from eggs in order for students in Child Development and Early Childhood Education classes to teach preschool students about the life cycle of a chicken, learning how to care for living things, and develop empathy and responsibility; and 2) Creation of a Student Clothing and Repair Closet to provide students with access to appropriate clothing for school, presentations, internships, and job interviews. In addition, the closet will offer basic clothing repair services, such as sewing buttons and repairing small holes.
• Mathematics Department: Purchase and pilot the use of interactive touchscreen technology in a mathematics classroom as a second projection screen to allow teachers to seamlessly integrate the Desmos graphing calculator into daily instruction, modeling mathematical concepts dynamically, and engaging students in interactive problem-solving. 

Earlier in the school year, in December 2025, the Hunterdon Central School Foundation, Inc. awarded $9,132 in grants for staff projects that included: 

• World Language Department: 1) Supporting Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration and year-round cultural activities; 2) Monday morning coffee check-ins with multilingual students to help improve attendance
• Joint initiative between counseling and business departments to promote curricular and practical connections to career options by fostering partnerships, raising awareness, and promoting activities.
• Business Department: Funds to cover field trip for students in business classes, particularly the sports marketing class, to attend the New York Jets Sports Business Day.
• Science Department: 1) Funding to rent the Starlab System from RVCC for the Astronomy course; 2) Funding for students to create a native pollinator garden; 3) Funding to complete a service project that will bridge the AP Environmental Science curriculum with a real world problem.
• Family & Consumer Science Department: Purchase of one Brother embroidery machine and necessary supplies. 
• Special Education Department: 1) Purchase of a t-shirt press and t-shirts to engage students in a real-world entrepreneurial activity in the ACHIEVE Program; and 2) Materials to replace rotting raised beds in the school vegetable garden.

“It is a privilege to support the education mission of Hunterdon Central. Not every program can fit into a finite school district budget. That’s where HCSF comes in. Now that we have resurrected our teacher grant program, we look forward to engaging with the broader Hunterdon Central community to raise the funding necessary to sustain that mission,” said James Finn, President of the Hunterdon Central School Foundation, Inc.
 

The Foundation continues to award ten scholarships to graduating seniors annually.