The National Park School District is a community public school district that serves students in Preschool through sixth grade from National Park, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.
For seventh through twelfth grade, public school students attend Gateway Regional High School, a regional public high school serving students from the boroughs of National Park, Wenonah, Westville and Woodbury Heights, as part of the Gateway Regional High School District.
As of the 2007-08 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 302 students and 21.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.4.
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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