Lopatcong Township School District

The Lopatcong Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Lopatcong Township, in Warren County, New Jersey, United States.

Contents

• Map of Lopatcong Township School District NJ USA
• Schools
• Administration
• References

Map of Lopatcong Township School District, NJ, USA

As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its two schools had an enrollment of 1,255 students and 70.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.8:1.

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.

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend Phillipsburg High School in Phillipsburg as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Phillipsburg School District. The high school also serves students from four other sending communities: Alpha, Bloomsbury (in Hunterdon County), Greenwich Township and Pohatcong Township. The site of the new Phillipsburg High School, which began construction in January 2014, is in Lopatcong's borders. The three-story, 330,000-square-foot (31,000 m²) building, with more than double the floor space of the existing high school and a capacity to accommodate more than 2,100 students, was completed for the 2016-17 school year and was dedicated in September 2016 at ceremonies attended by Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,631 students and 117.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.9:1.