eighth grade
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Burlington County
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, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 107 students and 4.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a
student–teacher ratio
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. Accessed December 7, 2016.
Since the 2007-08 school year, as part of an agreement with the Mullica Township Schools, Washington Township receives additional teaching support from the Mullica district and shares its superintendent and business administrator. Washington Township students in grades five through eight attend Mullica Township Middle School as part of a program that has expanded since it was initiated in the 2007-08 school year.
The district participates in the
Interdistrict Public School Choice Program
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at Green Bank Elementary School, having been approved on November 2, 1999, as one of the first ten districts statewide to participate in the program. Seats in the program for non-resident students are specified by the district and are allocated by lottery, with tuition paid for participating students by the
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.
The district is classified by the
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as being in District Factor Group "A", the 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.
Students in
ninth
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through twelfth grades attend Cedar Creek High School, which is located in the northern section of Egg Harbor City and opened to students in September 2010. The school is one of three high schools operated as part of the
Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District
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, which includes the constituent municipalities of Egg Harbor City,
Galloway Township
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Mullica Township
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, and participates in sending/receiving relationships with Port Republic and Washington Township. Cedar Creek High School is zoned to serve students from Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township, Port Republic and Washington Township, while students in portions of Galloway and Hamilton townships have the can attend Cedar Creek as an option or to participate in magnet programs at the school. Prior to the opening of Cedar Creek, students from Washington Township had attended
Oakcrest High School
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, together with students from Hamilton Township, Mullica Township and Port Republic. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 910 students and 66.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a
student–teacher ratio
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of 13.7:1.
History
Circa 2016 a feasibility study was done over whether the district should close its school and send the elementary school students to the Mullica Township school system.
School
Green Bank Elementary School had an enrollment of 41 students during the 2014-15 school year. The current school building opened in September 2006.
New Jersey Department of Education
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. Accessed December 29, 2016.
*Dr. Thomas Baruffi, interim superintendent
*Karen Gfroehrer, business administrator and board secretary
National Center for Education Statistics
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