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==Education== The [[Mountainside School District]] serves public school students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]].<ref>[https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=0cfae1f80849484da7ea449214614dbb Mountainside Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Mountain School District. Accessed September 24, 2024. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through twelve in the Mountainside School District. The Mountainside School District has a sending-receiving relationship with Berkeley Heights Board of Education to educate the Mountainside School District pupils in grades nine through twelve. Composition: The Mountainside School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Mountainside."</ref> As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 747 students and 71.6 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 10.4:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3411040&DistrictID=3411040 District information for Mountainside School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> Schools in the district (with 2022–23 enrollment data from the [[National Center for Education Statistics]]<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3411040 School Data for the Mountainside School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>) are Beechwood School<ref>[https://www.mountainsideschools.org/Domain/8 Beechwood School], Mountainside School District. Accessed September 24, 2024.</ref> with 269 students in grades PreK-2 and Deerfield School<ref>[https://www.mountainsideschools.org/Domain/9 Deerfield School], Mountainside School District. Accessed September 24, 2024.</ref> with 467 students in grades 3-8.<ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/39/3470 School Performance Reports for the Mountainside School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed April 3, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/3470 New Jersey School Directory for the Mountainside School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> Public school students in [[ninth grade|ninth]] through [[twelfth grade]]s attend [[Governor Livingston High School]] in [[Berkeley Heights, New Jersey|Berkeley Heights]], as part of a [[sending/receiving relationship]] with the [[Berkeley Heights Public Schools]] that is covered by an agreement that runs through the end of 2021–2022 school year.<ref>[http://www.nj.gov/education/pr/1415/narrative/39/0310/000.html Berkeley Heights Public School District 2015 Report Card Narrative], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed June 7, 2016. "In addition to serving the public school students of Berkeley Heights, high school students from the neighboring Borough of Mountainside are educated at Governor Livingston High School."</ref><ref>Mustac, Frank. [https://www.tapinto.net/towns/mountainside/sections/education/articles/contract-signed-to-continue-sending-mountainside "Contract Signed to Continue Sending Mountainside Students to Governor Livingston High School"], TAP into Mountainside, October 12, 2016. Accessed February 5, 2020. "With the Berkeley Heights Board of Education's recent approval of a renegotiated send/receive agreement, new terms are now in place by which the Mountainside School District will be sending its students in grades nine through 12 to Governor Livingston High School.... The new contract runs for five years from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2022, with a renewal option for an additional five years... The business administrator explained that 30 percent of the Mountainside School District annual budget goes to paying the Berkeley Heights district for sending about 300 students who live in Mountainside to Governor Livingston High School."</ref> As of the 2022–23 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 936 students and 88.2 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 10.6:1.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3401530&ID=340153000201 School data for Governor Livingston High School], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> Students also have the choice to attend the programs of the [[Union County Vocational Technical Schools]], which serve students from across Union County.<ref>[http://www.ucvts.tec.nj.us/domain/102 Our District], [[Union County Vocational Technical Schools]]. Accessed May 20, 2013.</ref>
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