The Elk Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in preschool through sixth grade from Elk Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.
For grades 7-12, public school students attend the Delsea Regional School District, which serves students from both Elk Township and Franklin Township. Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Delsea Regional Middle School with 568 students in grades 7 and 8, and Delsea Regional High School with 1,267 students in grades 9 - 12.
As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 373 students and 30.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.4.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "B", the second lowest 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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