The New Hanover Township School District is a consolidated public school district that serves students in pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade from two communities in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students from New Hanover Township and Wrightstown.
For grades 9 - 12, students from both New Hanover Township and Wrightstown attend Bordentown Regional High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Bordentown Regional School District, a regional K - 12 school district that serves students from Bordentown City, Bordentown Township and Fieldsboro Borough.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 196 students and 18 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.89.
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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