The Edgewater Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through sixth grades from Edgewater, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 601 students and 42 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.31.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third 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.
For grades 7 - 12, public school students are sent to the Leonia Public Schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Students attend Leonia Middle School for grades 7 and 8 (which had 451 students in grades 6 - 8), and Leonia High School which had 624 students in grades 9 - 12, all as of 2008-09.
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