Berkeley Heights Public Schools

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The Berkeley Heights Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Berkeley Heights in Union County, New Jersey. The six district schools provide an education to over 2,815 students.

The Board of Education and administrative offices for the district are located in the original Columbia School building on Plainfield Avenue, adjacent to middle school building.

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The Early Childhood Center at the Hamilton Terrace School houses pre-kindergarten through first grade students. This school opened in 1997 after the Berkeley Heights school district bought the former Westlake School property. The concept of a pre-kindergarten - grade one school came about as a result of proposals to address school space issues in a way that would enhance the educational program in the district.

There are three elementary schools in the district, each of which houses students of grades two through five. These schools are the Mountain Park Elementary School, the Thomas P. Hughes Elementary School, and the William Woodruff Elementary School.

Columbia Middle School is the single middle school in the district. It houses grades six through eight.

Governor Livingston High School is the single public high school in the district. It houses approximately 1,000 students in grades nine through twelve. In addition to serving the public school students of Berkeley Heights Township, high school students from the neighboring Borough of Mountainside are educated at the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Mountainside School District. Governor Livingston also provides programs for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Cognitively Impaired, of which students are enrolled from all over north-central New Jersey.