The Upper Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district

School district

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, serving students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Upper Township

Upper Township, New Jersey

Upper Township is a large township in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The township population was 12,115 as of the United States 2000 Census...

, in Cape May County

Cape May County, New Jersey

-Climate:Being the southernmost point in New Jersey, Cape May has fairly mild wintertime temperatures. Contrary to that, the summertime has lower temperatures than most places in the state, making the county a popular place to escape the heat. It is in zone 7a/7b, which is the same as parts of...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States.

Students from Corbin City

Corbin City, New Jersey

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, a non-operating district, attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship

Sending/receiving relationship

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.

As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's three schools had an enrollment of 1,530 students and 121.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.6.

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 "FG", the fourth 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 from Upper Township attend Ocean City High School

Ocean City High School

Ocean City High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Ocean City, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Ocean City School District...

 in Ocean City

Ocean City, New Jersey

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 as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the Ocean City School District

Ocean City School District

The Ocean City School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Ocean City, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States....

. 70% of students in Ocean City High School are from Upper Township.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:

• Upper Township Primary School (K-2; 483 students)
• Upper Township Elementary School (3-5; 484)
• Upper Township Middle School (6-8; 563)

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Vincent J. Palmieri, Jr., Superintendent
• Laurie Ryan, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• Upper Township School District
• Data for the Upper Township 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...