Schools
The district consists of six schools (with 2010-11 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics), which are:
- Elementary schools (K-5)
- Richard E. Byrd School with 231 students
- Central Elementary school with 333 students
- Clara E. Coleman School with 293 students
- Alexander Hamilton Elementary School with 267 students
- Middle School (6-8)
- Glen Rock Middle School, with 577 students
- High School (9-12)
- Glen Rock High School, which had an enrollment of 726 students in grades 9-12. The high school consistently places in the top 50 public schools in the state. In the Glen Rock High School graduating class of 2012, 98% of students indicated that they would move on to a two-year or four-year college.
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