Education
The Berlin Township Public Schools serve students in prekindergarten through eighth grade. Schools in the district (with 2010-11 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are John F. Kennedy Elementary School for PreK through 3rd grade (272 students) and Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School for grades 4-8 (330). The Huster Building, formerly used as a kindergarten and now used for administration, is named after Robert R. Huster, a Berlin Township resident who was killed in action in the Vietnam War.
Public school students from Berlin Township and Clementon attend Overbrook High School in Pine Hill for grades 9-12 as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Pine Hill Schools.
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