New Hanover Township School District


The New Hanover Township School District is a consolidated public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from New Hanover Township and Wrightstown, two communities in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2017-18 school year, the district, comprising one school, had an enrollment of 191 students and 24.4 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 7.8:1. In the 2016-17 school year, the district had the 40th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education 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.
For ninth through twelfth grades, students from both New Hanover Township and Wrightstown attend Bordentown Regional High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Bordentown Regional School District, a regional K-12 school district that serves students from Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro Borough. As of the 2017-18 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 733 students and 55.3 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 13.3:1.

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Core members of the district's administration are:
The district's board of education has seven members who set policy and oversee the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either two or three seats up for election each year held as part of the November general election.