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.
Public school students in Mount Laurel Township for grades 9-12 attend Lenape High School, located in Medford Township.[1] The high school is one of four schools in the Lenape Regional High School District, which serves students from Evesham Township, Medford Lakes, Medford Township, Mount Laurel Township, Shamong Township, Southampton Township, Tabernacle Township and Woodland Township.[2]
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.[3]
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 (57 km²) four times each day. Mount Laurel Schools’ maintenance and custodial staff maintains 669,928 square feet (62,238 m²) of educational space on a daily basis.
[edit] Schools
Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[4] are:
Elementary Schools (K-4)
- Countryside Elementary School with 377 students
- Fleetwood Elementary School with 358 students
- Hillside Elementary School with 428 students
- Larchmont Elementary School with 419 students
- Parkway Elementary School with 375 students
- Springville Elementary School with 448 students
Upper Elementary School
- Mount Laurel Hartford School with 1,053 students in Grades 5 & 6
Middle School
- Thomas E. Harrington Middle School with 1,057 students in Grades 7 & 8
[edit] References
- ^ Lenape High School 2007 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 8, 2008. "ATTENDANCE AREA: Mount Laurel"
- ^ Lenape Regional High School District 2007 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 8, 2008. "The Lenape Regional High School District serves the eight municipalities of Evesham, Medford, Mount Laurel, Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle and Woodland townships and Medford Lakes borough."
- ^ Schools selected as No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools in 2005. Retrieved on May 2, 2006.
- ^ Data for the Mount Laurel Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 8, 2008.
