The South Brunswick Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district, serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from South Brunswick Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
The district has grown substantially in recent decades, with high school enrollment doubling to nearly 2,000 in the decade to 2001, and increasing by another 1,000 in the subsequent decade. As of the 2009-10 school year, the district's 10 schools had an enrollment of 9,023 students and 685 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.17.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second 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.
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