The Franklin Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Franklin Township, in Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
As of the 2023âÂÂ24 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 272 students and 32.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a studentâÂÂteacher ratio of 8.5:1.
Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend North Hunterdon High School in Annandale together with students from Bethlehem Township, Clinton Town, Clinton Township, Lebanon Borough and Union Township. As of the 2023âÂÂ24 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,262 students and 115.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a studentâÂÂteacher ratio of 10.9:1. The school is part of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District, which also includes students from Califon, Glen Gardner, Hampton, High Bridge, Lebanon Township and Tewksbury Township, who attend Voorhees High School in Lebanon Township.
The district commissioned a study with the Union Township School District that considered the possibility of the two communities forming a regional PreKâÂÂ8 school district, with the possibility of the inclusion of the Bethlehem Township School District as a third member. The analysis by the consultants who performed the feasibility study estimated that savings of $1 million (2023 dollars) could be achieved without negatively impacting the racial distribution in the district's schools.
Franklin Township was one of two districts added to the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program in October 2011, opening up three seats in each grade starting in the 2012-13 school year, a total of 27 student seats, that parents from outside the district could apply to fill. The district ended its participation in the program in May 2023.
The district had been classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-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.
The Franklin Township School served an enrollment of 271 students in grades PreK-8 as of the 2023âÂÂ24 school year.
Core members of the district's administration are:
The district's board of education, comprised of seven members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district.