page_title: Burlington Township, New Jersey
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Burlington Township, New Jersey / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Elementary school built in 1915 and closed in 2008 after which it was converted into the Springside School Apartments. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 15000091 More images
context_page_description: Burlington Township is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Philadelphia. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 22,594, reflecting an increase of 2,300 from the 20,294 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 7,840 from the 12,454 counted in the 1990 Census.
context_section_description: Public school students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade are educated in the Burlington Township School District, under superintendent Mary Ann Bell. As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of four schools, had an enrollment of 3,761 students and 327.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1. Schools in the district (with 2018-19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are 
  B. Bernice Young Elementary School with 787 students in Pre-K to 2nd grade,
  Fountain Woods Elementary School with 793 students in grades 3-5, 
  Burlington Township Middle School at Springside with 927 students in grades 6-8 and 
  Burlington Township High School with 1,190 students in grades 9-12.
  The Burlington Township School District received notice in 2009 after a video posted on YouTube by a parent without school approval showed more than a dozen children at B. Bernice Young Elementary School singing a song praising President Barack Obama, which Conservative groups cited as a means of indoctrinating students to support the President. At the conclusion of the song, the children pump their fists and chant "hip, hip, hooray!" The song had been performed in conjunction with Black History Month activities and when the author of the book I Am Barack Obama visited the school the next month
  Students from Burlington Township, and from all of Burlington County, are eligible to attend the Burlington County Institute of Technology, a countywide public school district that serves the vocational and technical education needs of students at the high school and post-secondary level at its campuses in Medford and Westampton Township.
caption: Springside Public School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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