Editing Merchantville, New Jersey (section)

== Education ==
Students in public school for [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]] attend the [[Merchantville School District]] at Merchantville Elementary School.<ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/07/3110 School Performance Reports for the Merchantville School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed April 3, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/3110 New Jersey School Directory for the Merchantville School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> As of the 2023–24 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 400 students and 35.5 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 11.3:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3409960&DistrictID=3409960 District information for Merchantville School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed December 15, 2024.</ref>

Merchantville had its own high school, [[Merchantville High School]], which operated from 1929 until 1972, when it was shut down. At that point high school students attended [[Pennsauken High School]] in [[Pennsauken Township, New Jersey|Pennsauken Township]].<ref>Florio, Gwen. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2A3E00A5A36C4&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Looking Beyond The School Decision Time To Make Up, Officials Say, After A Decade Of Fussing."], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', September 21, 1992. Accessed July 10, 2008. "Ever since its own high school closed in 1972, the Borough of Merchantville has been sending its public school students to Pennsauken High School."</ref> The commissioner of the [[New Jersey Department of Education]] approved the district's proposal and beginning in September 2015 Merchantville began sending students to Haddon Heights High School for grades 9–12, joining students from [[Barrington, New Jersey|Barrington]] and [[Lawnside, New Jersey|Lawnside]], who already attended the school.<ref>Romalino, Carly Q. [http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/south-jersey/2015/04/17/merchantville-school-decision-historic/25950181/ "Merchantville school decision 'historic'"], ''[[Courier-Post]]'', April 17, 2015. Accessed November 1, 2015. "The state's final authorization this week allowing Merchantville to choose Haddon Heights High School over Pennsauken, is a "landmark decision" for a state focused on school choice, according to education officials."</ref><ref>[http://www.merchantvilleschool.org/apps/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=323317&id=0 "Send/Receive Final Decision; The Commissioner of Education affirmed the Administrative Law Judge's decision to start a send/receive relationship with Haddon Heights for our High School students."], Merchantville School District. Accessed November 1, 2015. "The Merchantville Board of Education is proud to announce that the Commissioner of Education has affirmed the Administrative Law Judge's decision to sever its sending-receiving relationship with Pennsauken and enter into a new sending-receiving relationship with Haddon Heights.... The current graduating 8th graders (Merchantville Class of 2015) will be able to attend Haddon Heights High School under the send/receive agreement. However, students that are already attending Pennsauken HS or other high schools will not qualify to attend under the new send/receive agreement. Instead, every year for four years, a new class will be sent to Haddon Heights until all of our students are phased into Haddon Heights."</ref> As of the 2023–24 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 942 students and 80.0 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 11.8:1.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3406330&ID=340633001528 School data for Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed December 15, 2024.</ref>

St. Peter School is a K–8 elementary school that opened in 1927 and operates under the auspices of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden]].<ref>[https://www.stpeterschool.org/page/history About Our School], Saint Peter School. Accessed February 21, 2023. "St. Peter School has a long and rich history of academic excellence where the seeds of faith began to sprout at its inception and continued to be nurtured to this day. St. Peter School is located in the heart of Merchantville, Camden County, New Jersey. It was founded in 1927 and continues today as a parish school with grades pre-kindergarten through eighth grade."</ref><ref>[https://southjerseycatholicschools.org/catholic-schools-in-south-jersey/ Schools], South Jersey Catholic Schools. Accessed February 21, 2023.</ref>