page_title: Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
section_title: Public schools
hierarchical_section_title: Berkeley Heights, New Jersey / Education / Public schools
caption_attribution_description: English: Woodsy area near Plainfield Avenue in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.
context_page_description: Berkeley Heights is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 13,183, reflecting a decline of 224 from the 13,407 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 1,427 from the 11,980 counted in the 1990 Census.
  Berkeley Heights was originally incorporated as New Providence Township by the New Jersey Legislature on November 8, 1809, from portions of Springfield Township, while the area was still part of Essex County. New Providence Township became part of the newly formed Union County at its creation on March 19, 1857. Portions of the township were taken on March 23, 1869, to create Summit, and on March 14, 1899, to form the borough of New Providence. On November 6, 1951, the name of the township was changed to Berkeley Heights, based on the results of a referendum held that day. The township was named for John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, one of the founders of the Province of New Jersey.
  The township has been ranked as one of the state's highest-income communities.
context_section_description: The Berkeley Heights Public Schools serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. As of the 2017–18 school year, the district, comprised of six schools, had an enrollment of 2,634 students and 223.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. Schools in the district (with 2017-18 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are 
  Mary Kay McMillin Early Childhood Center (327 students; in PreK-1st grade), 
  Thomas P. Hughes Elementary School (270; 2-5), 
  Mountain Park Elementary School (228; 2-5), 
  William Woodruff Elementary School (209; 2-5), 
  Columbia Middle School (566; 6-8) and 
  Governor Livingston High School (1,024; 9-12).
  The district's high school serves public school students of Berkeley Heights, along with approximately 300 students from neighboring Borough of Mountainside who are educated at the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Mountainside School District that is covered by an agreement that runs through the end of 2021–22 school year. Governor Livingston provides programs for deaf, hard of hearing and cognitively-impaired students in the district and those who are enrolled from all over north-central New Jersey who attend on a tuition basis.
  Governor Livingston was the 30th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 305 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2018 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools".
caption: A wooded area
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