The New Hanover Township School District is a consolidated public school district

School district

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 that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from two communities 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

United States

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. The district serves students from New Hanover Township

New Hanover Township, New Jersey

New Hanover Township is a Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 9,744. The township is located in the Delaware Valley....

 and Wrightstown

Wrightstown, New Jersey

Wrightstown is a Borough in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 802....

.

For grades 9 - 12, students from both New Hanover Township and Wrightstown attend Bordentown Regional High School

Bordentown Regional High School

Bordentown Regional High School is a comprehensive regional public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from five communities in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Bordentown Regional School District. The high school serves students...

 as part of a sending/receiving relationship

Sending/receiving relationship

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 with the Bordentown Regional School District

Bordentown Regional School District

The Bordentown Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from five communities in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States...

, a regional K - 12 school district that serves students from Bordentown City

Bordentown, New Jersey

Bordentown City is in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 3,924. Bordentown is located at the confluence of the Delaware River, Blacks Creek and Crosswicks Creek...

, Bordentown Township

Bordentown Township, New Jersey

Of note, the Crosswicks Creek and its juncture with the Delaware River, otherwise known as the Trenton-Hamilton Marsh, is a very significant ecosystem and, with the peninsula of land and waterways to the northwest of Bordentown Township known, respectively, as Duck Island, Duck Creek and the...

 and Fieldsboro Borough

Fieldsboro, New Jersey

Fieldsboro is a Borough in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 522.Fieldsboro was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature as Fieldsborough on March 7, 1850, within portions of Mansfield Township. It...

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As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 154 students and 16.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.6.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education

New Jersey Department of Education

The New Jersey Department of Education administers state and federal aid programs affecting more than 1.4 million public and non-public elementary and secondary school children in the state of New Jersey. The department is headquartered in Trenton.The Department is responsible for ensuring that...

 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.

School

• New Hanover Township School
  New Hanover Township School
  The New Hanover Township School is an elementary school in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The school serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from New Hanover Township and Wrightstown, as part of the New Hanover Township School District.As of the 2005-06 school year,...
  
   had an enrollment of 154 students as of the 2007-08 school year.
  • Brian McBride, Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Dr. Robert Smith, Superintendent
• Deborah Paone, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• New Hanover Township Public Schools
• Data for the New Hanover Township School, 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...