The Washington Borough Public Schools is a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade from Washington Borough, in Warren County, New Jersey, United States.
Students in grades 7 and up attend the schools of the Warren Hills Regional School District. Warren Hills is a Grade 7-12 district that serves approximately 2,100 students from the municipalities of Washington Borough, Washington Township, Mansfield Township, Franklin Township and Oxford Township (for 9-12 only). Schools in the district (with 2008-09 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics are Warren Hills Regional Middle School (grades 7 and 8; 643 students) located in Washington Borough and Warren Hills Regional High School (grades 9 - 12; 1,387 students) located in Washington Township.
As of the 2008-09 school year, the district's two schools had an enrollment of 540 students and 47.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth 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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