The Livingston Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from Livingston, in Essex County, New Jersey. The district consists of six elementary schools, grades K-5; one middle school for grade 6 and another middle school for grades 7 and 8, and one four-year high school.
As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's nine schools had an enrollment of 5,619 students and 431.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second 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.
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