The City of Burlington Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district

School district

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 that serves students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade in Burlington

Burlington, New Jersey

Burlington is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Philadelphia. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 9,920....

, in Burlington County

Burlington County, New Jersey

There were 154,371 households out of which 34.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.70% were married couples living together, 10.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.70% were non-families. 22.90% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.50% had...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States. The district is one of 31 Abbott District

Abbott District

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s statewide.

Burlington City High School serves as a receiving school for students in grade nine through twelve from Edgewater Park Township

Edgewater Park Township, New Jersey

Edgewater Park Township is a Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and a northeastern Delaware Valley suburb of Philadelphia...

, as part of a sending/receiving relationship

Sending/receiving relationship

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 with the Edgewater Park School District

Edgewater Park School District

The Edgewater Park School District is a community public school district that serves students in grades from prekindergarten through eighth grade from Edgewater Park Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States....

.

As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's five schools had an enrollment of 1,882 students and 187.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.0.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education

New Jersey Department of Education

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 as being in District Factor Group "B", the second lowest 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.

Awards and recognition

The district was selected as one of the top "100 Best Communities for Music Education in America 2005" by the American Music Conference.

Schools

The district consists of the following schools (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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):

Elementary Schools

• Elias Boudinot Elementary School (K - 2; 86 students)
• Captain James Lawrence Elementary School (K - 2; 157)
• Samuel Smith Elementary School (PreK - 2; 346)
• Wilbur Watts Intermediate School (grades 3 - 6; 471)

Middle School

• Burlington City Junior School (grades 7 and 8)

High School

• Burlington City High School
  Burlington City High School
  Burlington City High School is a comprehensive community six-year public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade in Burlington, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the City of Burlington Public School District....
  
   (Grades 9 - 12; 822 students)

Administration

Members of the district administration are:

• Dr. Patricia Doloughty, Superintendent
• Craig Wilkie, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• The City of Burlington Public School District
• Data for the City of Burlington Public School District, National Center for Education Statistics
  National Center for Education Statistics
  The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...