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Gloucester Township Public Schools

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Grades
  
K-8

Business administrator
  
Kathleen Forsythe

Student-teacher ratio
  
19.3:1

Phone
  
+1 856-227-1400

Schools
  
11

Superintendent
  
John D. Bilodeau

Enrollment
  
9,925 (as of 2014-15)

District Factor Group
  
DE

Number of students
  
9,925

Faculty
  
514.6

Address
  
17 Erial Rd, Blackwood, NJ 08012, USA

The Gloucester Township Public Schools is a community public school district serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Gloucester Township, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The district operates eight K-5 elementary schools and three grade 6-8 middle schools, including the new Ann A. Mullen Middle School, dedicated in September 1996.

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As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its 11 schools had an enrollment of 9,925 students and 514.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 19.3:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

Students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades attend one of the three high schools that are part of the Black Horse Pike Regional School District. The schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Highland Regional High School (1,236 students; located in Blackwood), Timber Creek Regional High School (1,320; Erial) or Triton Regional High School (1,230; Runnemede). Students from Gloucester Township attend one of the three schools based on their residence address; students from Bellmawr and Runnemede, the other two communities in the district, all attend Triton High School.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

Elementary schools
  • Blackwood Elementary School (593 students; in grades K-5)
  • Chews Elementary School (698; K-5)
  • Erial Elementary School (635; K-5)
  • Glendora Elementary School (285; K-5)
  • Gloucester Township Elementary School (251; K-5)
  • James W. Lilley Jr. Elementary School (452; K-5)
  • Loring-Flemming Elementary School (698; K-5)
  • Union Valley Elementary School (508; K-5)
  • Middle schools
  • Glen Landing Middle School (799; 6-8)
  • Charles W. Lewis Middle School (681; 6-8)
  • Ann A. Mullen Middle School (888; 6-8)
  • Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • John D. Bilodeau, Superintendent
  • Kathleen Forsythe, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
  • References

    Gloucester Township Public Schools Wikipedia