Delran Township School District
The Delran Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Delran Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2017–18 school year, the district, comprising four schools, had an enrollment of 3,003 students and 234.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-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. History. Into the early 1970s, students from Delran Township and Delanco Township attended Riverside High School as part of sending/receiving relationships. Efforts to merge the three districts into combined regional K-12 system were rejected in a November 1971 referendum, forcing the Delran district to pursue efforts to create its own high school. The Delran sending relationship began in 1954. Delran High School, constructed at a cost of $6 million, opened for the  1975-76 school year. Schools. Schools in the district (with 2017–18 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are: Administration. Core members of the district's administration are: Board of education. The district's board of education is comprised of 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. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the day-to-day operation of the district.