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Tewksbury Township Schools

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Grades
  
K to 8

Business administrator
  
Joanne Black

Enrollment
  
941 (as of 2014-15)

Superintendent
  
Monica A. Rowland

Schools
  
2

Faculty
  
65.3 FTEs

The Tewksbury Township Schools is a community public school district which operates two schools serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Tewksbury Township, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.

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As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its two schools had an enrollment of 941 students and 65.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.4:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "J", the-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 Voorhees High School in Lebanon Township (although the mailing address is Glen Gardner), which also serves students from Califon Borough, Glen Gardner Borough, Hampton Borough, High Bridge Borough and Lebanon Township. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,067 students and 88.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. The school is part of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District, which also includes students from Bethlehem Township, Clinton Town, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Lebanon Borough and Union Township who attend North Hunterdon High School in Annandale.

History

The community's original elementary school, Sawmill, opened in 1951 and was sold in 2003 for $1 million to the Hunterdon County Educational Services Commission.

Awards and recognition

Tewksbury Elementary School was recognized in 2011 as a Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education.

Schools

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

Elementary school
  • Tewksbury Elementary School for grades K - 4 (310 students)
  • Jim Miller, Principal
  • Middle school
  • Old Turnpike School for pre-Kindergarten and grades 5 - 8 (346 students)
  • Scott Yerger, Principal
  • Administration

    Core members of the district's administration are:

  • Monica A. Rowland, Superintendent
  • Joanne Black, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
  • References

    Tewksbury Township Schools Wikipedia