Mount Laurel Schools
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The Mount Laurel Schools serve students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Mount Laurel Township in Burlington County, New Jersey.
Mount Laurel Township School District includes eight schools serving 4,627 students in kindergarten through eighth-grade. The grade configuration includes six schools serving kindergarten through fourth-grade students. Students are assigned to one of the six kindergarten through fourth-grade schools based upon a geographic districting plan. All students move into the upper elementary level together for fifth and sixth-grade, and remain together for entrance to the middle school for grades 7 and 8.
High school students in Mount Laurel Township attend Lenape High School, located in Medford Township, which is part of the Lenape Regional High School District, a regional high school district in Burlington County, New Jersey that serves the eight municipalities of Evesham Township, Medford Lakes, Medford Township, Mount Laurel Township (1,868 students), Shamong Township (447 students), Southampton Township, Tabernacle Township and Woodland Township.
Parkway Elementary School was one of four schools in New Jersey recognized by the national Blue Ribbon Schools Program, awarded by the United States Department of Education, for the 2005-06 school year.[1]
A major employer within the community, Mount Laurel School District has 420 certified staff members and an additional contingent of 320 support staff. The district's transportation department operates a tiered busing system that covers the municipality’s 22 square miles four times each day. Mount Laurel Schools’ maintenance and custodial staff maintains 669,928 square-feet of educational space on a daily basis.
[edit] Schools
Schools in the district include the following:
Elementary Schools (K-5)
- Countryside Elementary School with 379 students in Grades K-4 and 65 staff members
- Fleetwood Elementary School with 359 students in Grades K-4 and 65 staff members
- Hillside Elementary School with 427 students in Grades K-4 and 65 staff members
- Larchmont Elementary School with 416 students in Grades K-4 and 75 staff members
- Parkway Elementary School with 375 students in Grades K-4 and 65 staff members
- Springville Elementary School with 447 students in Grades K-4 and 80 staff members
Upper Elementary School
- Mount Laurel Hartford School with 1,052 students in Grades 5 & 6 and 115 staff members
Middle School
- Thomas E. Harrington Middle School with 1,056 students in Grades 7 & 8 and 125 staff members.
