The Tewksbury Township Schools is a community public school district

School district

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 which operates two schools serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Tewksbury Township

Tewksbury Township, New Jersey

Tewksbury Township is a Township located in Hunterdon County, New Jersey and is located within the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the United States 2010 Census, the township population was 5,993...

, in Hunterdon County

Hunterdon County, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

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, United States

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.

Students in grades 9 through 12 attend Voorhees High School

Voorhees High School

Voorhees High School is a four-year public high school located in Lebanon Township, New Jersey. The school is named after Foster MacGowan Voorhees, the 30th Governor of New Jersey. It is one of two high schools in the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District, serving students from six...

 in Glen Gardner as part of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District

North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District

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. Voorhees High School serves students from Califon Borough

Califon, New Jersey

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 (67 students), Glen Gardner Borough

Glen Gardner, New Jersey

Glen Gardner is a borough in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. At the time of the United States 2010 Census, the borough population was 1,704....

 (75 students), Hampton Borough

Hampton, New Jersey

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 (87 students), High Bridge Borough

High Bridge, New Jersey

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 (217 students), Lebanon Township

Lebanon Township, New Jersey

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 5,816 people, 1,963 households, and 1,556 families residing in the township. The population density was 183.5 people per square mile . There were 2,020 housing units at an average density of 63.7 per square mile...

 (404 students) and Tewksbury Township (235 students).

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 775 students and 49.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.8.

Schools

Schools in the district (with 2007-08 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics

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) are:
Elementary School

• Tewksbury Elementary School houses grades K - 4 (439 students).
  • Jim Miller - Principal

Middle School

• Old Turnpike School serves prekindergarten and grades 5 - 8 (336 students)
  • William Petrick - Principal

The community's original elementary school, Sawmill, opened in 1951 and has subsequently been sold.

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• William Petrick, Superintendent
• Karin Laraway, Business Administrator

External links

• Tewksbury Township Schools
• Data for the Tewksbury Township Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
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• North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District