Mendham Township Public Schools
The Mendham Township Public Schools is a community public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Mendham Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2017-18 school year, the district, comprising two schools, had an enrollment of 690 students and 73.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.5:1. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "J", the 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. Students in public school for ninth through twelfth grades attend West Morris Mendham High School, which is located in Mendham Borough and serves students from Chester Borough, Chester Township, Mendham Borough and Mendham Township. The school is part of the West Morris Regional High School District, which also serves students from Washington Township at West Morris Mendham High School. As of the 2017-18 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,241 students and  97.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. Awards and recognition. Mendham Township Middle School was one of 11 in the state to be recognized in 2014 by the United States Department of Education's Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Mendham Township Elementary School was honored by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2019, one of nine schools in the state recognized as Exemplary High Performing Schools. Schools. Schools in the district (with 2017-18 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:<rf>Schools, Mendham Township Public Schools. Accessed February 12 , 2020.</ref> Administration. Core members of the district's administration are: The district's board of education has seven members who set policy and oversee 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 either two or three seats up for election each year held (since 2014) as part of the November general election.