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Sayreville
Sayreville is a borough in Middlesex County of new Jersey. Town is located on the banks of river Raritan in eastern New Jersey. It is believed town was settled in 1775 near Ritarian Bay and up until 1870, Sayreville is been an important river port.

Sayreville was originally known as roundabout for its river bends and then as Woods landing. It was renamed in 1870s for James R. Sayre, Jr. James who was the owner of a renowned brick company established in Sayreville.

Sayreville has extensive clay deposits which supported the brick industry enormously from 1800 until 1970.Although borough has always been known as an industrial town, addition of residential towns and new industrial set ups has changed the landscape.

Sayreville is surrounded by towns and cities from all around which makes each town important for the other as none can be reached without crossing the other. Sayreville has Woodbridge Township on the north, South Amboy on the east, Perth Amboy on the northeast, Old Bridge Township on the South. Sayreville also touches East Brunswick and Edison.

New York lies 35 miles Southwest of the Sayreville and Philadelphia is 66 miles on the north eastern side. Sayreville has links to several major roadways - the Garden State Parkway, New Jersey Turnpike, I-287 and routes 1, 9 and 35.

Sayreville has population with the racial makeup of 76.47% White, 8.62% of African American, 0.13% of Native Americans, 10.56% of Asians, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 7.29% Hispanic / Latino and 2.12% others.

According to the population census of 2000, 14,955 households out of which 34.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them; Married couples in Sayreville are 57.5% who are living together. 11.1% of the families are headed by females and 27% are non family households. The average household size in Sayreville is 2.68 and average family size is 3.17.

According to the incomes and expenditure surveys, 4.7% of the Sayreville population lives below the poverty line. The percentage of people under the age of 18 is 6.1% and 5.3% are those who are over 65 years of age.

According to the National Centre for Education statistics, there are four K3 elementary schools. Number of students enrolled in each school varies; Emma Aretha Elementary school has 518 students on roll, Dwight d. Eisonhower Elementary school has 460 students, Harry S. Trueman Elementary School has 442 kids enrolled and Woodrow Wilson Elementary school has 334 enrolled students.

For grades 6 - 8, 1,361 students are currently enrolled at Sayreville Middle School and Sayreville Memorial high School has 1, 677 students for grades 9 - 12. Jesse Selover Elemenatry Schools caters children with special needs.

It enrols students with moderate disabilities on a half day programme and a full day programme is for the children with moderate disabilities but who are in need of greater time and attention.

Sayreville is home to many well known celebrities. Amongst them are the names such as all time rock star Jon bon Jovi, Greg Evigan from the television hit b.J and the Bear and My two dads, David Frank a star from ringling Bros and Barnum & bailey Circus, Marilyn Ghigliotti a cult hit star from Kevin Smiths Clerks, Dule Hill from the West Wing Psych, tom Kelly Minnesota twins former manager, Mile record holder for America Madelyn Noe, Late Eddie Popowski also known as buddy manager of Boston Red Sox, Rhonda Rompola coach of Southern Methodist Universitys basketball team, Dave Sabo famous as The snake rock guitarist with a heavy metal band Skid Row and Charles Wiley journalist who is famous for his fearless reporting and has covered many life threatening events.