Riverton School District


The Riverton School District is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Riverton in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2017-18 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 298 students and 25.2 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-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.
For ninth through twelfth grades, students in public school attend Palmyra High School in Palmyra, together with students from Beverly, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Palmyra Public Schools. In the early 1990s, the district had considered options to ends its sending relationship with Palmyra. As of the 2017-18 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 429 students and 41.3 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 10.4:1.

School

Riverton Elementary School served 296 students as of the 2017-18 school year.

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:
The district's board of education has nine 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 three seats up for election each year held as part of the November general election.