Education
Public school students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade are educated by the Totowa Borough Public Schools. Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Memorial School which houses students in prekindergarten through second grade (328 students) and Washington Park School for grades three through eight (684).
For grades 9 - 12, students in public school attend Passaic Valley Regional High School. The regional public high school serves students from Little Falls, Totowa, and Woodland Park (formerly West Paterson). The school facility is located in Little Falls Township.
Also located in Totowa is the Academy of St. Francis of Assisi, a K-8 Catholic school that operates under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson.
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