The South Orange & Maplewood School District empowers inventive educators and exemplary administrative staff that reflect the community's rich racial, cultural, and linguistic diversity of approximately 7,000 K-12 students. Our district builds extraordinary learning environments that motivate and inspire all students. This historic district is home to Columbia High School — the 17th oldest secondary education institution in the nation. The following vacant positions are also featured in public area newspapers, on online job boards, on the Columbia Cable Network (CCN), and filtered listings are posted in each school building in the district.

Affirmative Action

The Board of Education does hereby reaffirm its policy as follows:

to ensure equal employment opportunity for all persons;

to prohibit discrimination in employment because of age, ancestry, color, creed, domicile, gender, handicap or disabilities not related to job, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation or socio-economic status; and

to have equal access to all categories of employment in the public educational system of the school district.

An intensive affirmative action program shall be an integral part of every aspect of employment, not limited to, but including, upgrading, demotion or transfer, recruitment or recruitment advertising, layoff or termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation including fringe benefits, employment selection or selection for training and mentorships, promotion or tenure.

The Assistant Superintendent of Schools has been designated to handle inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies.