Hopewell Township School District
The Hopewell Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in preschool through eighth grade from Hopewell Township and Shiloh, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. The Shiloh School was closed after the end of the 2006-07 school year, and all students from Shiloh made are being sent to the Hopewell Crest School as part of a sending/receiving relationship, accounting for nearly 10% of the Hopewell district's enrollment. As of the 2017-18 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 484 students and  35.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.8:1. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth-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. Public school students from both communities in ninth through twelfth grades attend Cumberland Regional High School or Cumberland County TEC, which also serve students from Deerfield Township , Fairfield Township, Greenwich Township, Stow Creek Township and Upper Deerfield Township. As of the 2017-18 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,127 students and 78.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.4:1. School. Hopewell Crest School had an enrollment of 479 students as of the 2017-18 school year. Administration. Core members of the district's administration are: The district's board of education has nine 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 three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election.