Editing Mountain Lakes, New Jersey (section)

==Education==
The [[Mountain Lakes Schools]] serve public school students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[twelfth grade]].<ref>[https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=e5179120380c4541852aff54fe053898Mountain Lakes Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Mountain Lakes Schools. Accessed July 19, 2022. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through twelve in the Mountain Lakes School District. Composition: The Mountain Lakes School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Mountain Lakes."</ref> As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of four schools, had an enrollment of 1,348 students and 146.7 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 9.2:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3411010&DistrictID=3411010 District information for Mountain Lakes Public School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref> Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the [[National Center for Education Statistics]]<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3411010 School Data for the Mountain Lakes Schools], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref>) are 
Wildwood Elementary School<ref>[https://ww.mlschools.org/ Wildwood Elementary School], Mountain Lakes Schools. Accessed July 19, 2022.</ref> with 428 students in grades K–5, 
Briarcliff Middle School<ref>[https://bc.mlschools.org/ Briarcliff Middle School], Mountain Lakes Schools. Accessed July 19, 2022.</ref> with 281 students in grades 6–8, 
[[Mountain Lakes High School]]<ref>[https://hs.mlschools.org/ Mountain Lakes High School], Mountain Lakes Schools. Accessed July 19, 2022.</ref> with 641 students in grades 9–12 and 
Lake Drive School, a regional school for deaf and hard of hearing students from birth through high school, with students from nearly 100 communities in 12 New Jersey counties.<ref>[https://ld.mlschools.org/ Lake Drive School], Mountain Lakes Schools. Accessed July 19, 2022.</ref> with 57 students in grades Pre-K–8.<ref>[https://www.mlschools.org/school Schools], Mountain Lakes Schools. Accessed July 19, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/27/3460 School Performance Reports for the Mountain Lakes Public School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed April 1, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/3460 New Jersey School Directory for the Mountain Lakes Schools], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> Students from [[Boonton Township, New Jersey|Boonton Township]] attend the district's high school as part of a [[sending/receiving relationship]].<ref>[http://www.nj.gov/education/pr/1415/narrative/27/0460/000.html Boonton Township School District 2015 Report Card Narrative], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed June 6, 2016. "The Boonton Township School District has one school, Rockaway Valley School, which houses a PreK through Grade 8 program for approximately 450 children. The district maintains a send-receive relationship with the neighboring Mountain Lakes School District, whereby our students attend Mountain Lakes High School."</ref> The school was the 7th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in ''[[New Jersey Monthly]]'' magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 9th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.<ref>Staff. [http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/the-top-new-jersey-high-schools-alphabetical.html "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical"], ''[[New Jersey Monthly]]'', August 16, 2012. Accessed March 3, 2015.</ref>

Mountain Lakes is also home to [[The Craig School]], a private [[coeducation]]al [[day school]] serving students in second through twelfth grade. The school has an enrollment of 130 students split between the Lower/Middle School (grades 2–8), located in Mountain Lakes, and the High School (grades 9–12), in [[Boonton, New Jersey|Boonton]].<ref>[https://www.craigschool.org/about-craig/ About], [[The Craig School]]. Accessed July 19, 2022."</ref>

According to Neighborhood Scout, Mountain Lakes is one of New Jersey's most highly educated municipalities, with 85.94% of adults attaining a four-year [[undergraduate education|undergraduate]] or [[postgraduate education|graduate degree]], quadruple the national average of 21.84%, while the percentage of [[white-collar worker]]s was 98.77%.<ref>[http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/nj/mountain-lakes/#desc Mountain Lakes, NJ], Neighborhood Scout. Accessed October 24, 2013.</ref>