Pemberton Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district

School district

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 headquartered in Pemberton Township

Pemberton Township, New Jersey

Pemberton Township is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 United States Census, the township population was 28,691....

, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, United States, serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The district is one of 31 Abbott District

Abbott District

Abbott districts are school districts in New Jersey that are provided remedies to ensure that their students receive public education in accordance with New Jersey’s state constitution. They were created in 1985 as a result of the first ruling of Abbott v. Burke, a case filed by the Education Law...

s statewide.

The school district serves the entire township, including the communities of Browns Mills

Browns Mills, New Jersey

Browns Mills is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Pemberton Township, in Burlington County. As of the 2000 United States Census, the CDP population was 11,257.-Geography:Browns Mills is located at ....

, Country Lake Estates

Country Lake Estates, New Jersey

Country Lake Estates is a census-designated place located within Pemberton Township, in Burlington County. As of the 2000 United States Census, the CDP population was 4,012.-Geography:Country Lake Estates is located at ....

, Pemberton Heights

Pemberton Heights, New Jersey

Pemberton Heights is a census-designated place located within Pemberton Township, in Burlington County. As of the 2000 United States Census, the CDP had a total population of 2,512.-Geography:...

 and Presidential Lakes Estates

Presidential Lakes Estates, New Jersey

Presidential Lakes Estates is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Pemberton Township, in Burlington County. As of the 2000 United States Census, the CDP population was 2,332.-Geography:...

. The Pemberton Township portion of Fort Dix

Fort Dix, New Jersey

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 is also served by the school district.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's 11 schools had an enrollment of 5,011 students and 484.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...

 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.4.

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.

Schools

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

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) are:
Elementary schools (PreK-4, except as indicated)

• Samuel T. Busansky Elementary School (306 students)
• Aletta Crichton Elementary School (555)
• Alexander Denbo Elementary School (352)
• Fort Dix Elementary School (188)
• Howard L. Emmons Elementary School (369)
• Harker-Wylie Elementary School (325)
• Joseph S. Stackhouse Elementary School (K-4; 282)

Upper elementary schools

• Isaiah Haines Elementary School (5-6; 203)
• Marcus Newcomb Elementary School (5-6; 509)

Middle school

• Helen A. Fort Middle School (7-8; 686)

High school

• Pemberton Township High School
  Pemberton Township High School
  Pemberton Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Pemberton Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Pemberton Township School District...
  
   (9-12; 1,234)

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Dr. Michael Gorman, Superintendent
• Pat Austin, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

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