Education
The Saddle Brook Public Schools serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are three K-6 elementary schools — Franklin (240 students), Long Memorial (321 students) and Helen I. Smith (346 students) — Washington School, which houses a number of the district's early intervention special education programs (27 students) and Saddle Brook High/Middle School, a grade 7-12 middle/high school (796 students).
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