The West Amwell Township School District is a community public school district

School district

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 that serves students in preschool through sixth grade from West Amwell Township

West Amwell Township, New Jersey

The Delaware River separates West Amwell from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 2,383 people, 949 households, and 696 families residing in the township. The population density was 109.7 people per square mile . There were 984 housing units at an...

, in Hunterdon County

Hunterdon County, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

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, United States

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Public school students in grade 7 - 12 attend the South Hunterdon Regional High School

South Hunterdon Regional High School

South Hunterdon Regional High School is a regional public high school and secondary school district serving three communities in southern Hunterdon County. It is the smallest public high school in the state of New Jersey. Students in grade 7 - 12 attend the school, which serves students from...

 in Lambertville, part of the South Hunterdon Regional High School District, which served 346 students in southern Hunterdon County in the 2007-08 school year. Students from Lambertville

Lambertville, New Jersey

Lambertville is a city in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 3,906.Lambertville was originally incorporated as a town by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1, 1849, from portions of West Amwell Township...

, Stockton

Stockton, New Jersey

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 and West Amwell Township attend South Hunterdon Regional High School.

As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 262 students and 14.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

Full-time equivalent

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 18.7.

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.

School

The West Amwell Township Elementary School had an enrollment of 262 students as of the 2007-08 school year.

• Lynne Meara, Principal

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

• Dr. Todd A. Fay, Superintendent
• Donna Tolley, Business Administrator / Board Secretary

External links

• West Amwell Township School
• Data for the West Amwell Township School, National Center for Education Statistics
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• South Hunterdon Regional High School