Editing Millville, New Jersey (section)

==Education==
===Primary and secondary===
The [[Millville Public Schools]] serves students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[twelfth grade]].<ref>[https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=b8eb922d28644f7fb64f39313691bec3 Millville Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Millville Public Schools. Accessed March 26, 2022. "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 Millville School District. Composition: The Millville School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Millville."</ref> The district is one of 31 former [[Abbott district]]s statewide that were established pursuant to the decision by the [[New Jersey Supreme Court]] in ''Abbott v. Burke''<ref>[https://www.njsda.gov/About/WhatWeDo#History What We Do: History], [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]]. Accessed March 1, 2022. "In 1998, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in the ''Abbott v. Burke'' case that the State must provide 100 percent funding for all school renovation and construction projects in special-needs school districts. According to the Court, aging, unsafe and overcrowded buildings prevented children from receiving the "thorough and efficient" education required under the New Jersey Constitution.... Full funding for approved projects was authorized for the 31 special-needs districts, known as 'Abbott Districts'."</ref> which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]].<ref>[https://www.njsda.gov/About/WhatWeDo What We Do], [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]]. Accessed March 1, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.njsda.gov/Content/FactSheets/31_SDA_Districts.pdf SDA Districts], [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]]. Accessed March 1, 2022.</ref>

As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of nine schools, had an enrollment of 5,107 students and 433.5 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 11.8:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3410320&DistrictID=3410320 District information for Millville School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed December 1, 2022.</ref> Schools in the district (with 2021–22 enrollment data from the [[National Center for Education Statistics]]<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3410320 School Data for the Millville Public Schools], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed December 1, 2022.</ref>) are 
Child Family Center<ref>[http://cfc.millville.org/ Child Family Center], Millville Public Schools. Accessed January 8, 2024.</ref> with 520 students in PreK, 
R. M. Bacon Elementary School<ref>[http://bacon.millville.org/ Bacon Elementary School], Millville Public Schools. Accessed January 8, 2024.</ref> with 262 students in grades K-5, 
Holly Heights Elementary School<ref>[http://holly.millville.org/ Holly Heights Elementary School], Millville Public Schools. Accessed January 8, 2024.</ref> with 487 students in grades K-5, 
Mount Pleasant Elementary School<ref>[http://mtpleasant.millville.org/ Mount Pleasant Elementary School], Millville Public Schools. Accessed January 8, 2024.</ref> with 173 students in grades K-5, 
Rieck Avenue Elementary School<ref>[http://rieck.millville.org/ Rieck Avenue Elementary School], Millville Public Schools. Accessed January 8, 2024.</ref> with 415 students in grades K-5, 
Silver Run Elementary School<ref>[http://silver.millville.org/ Silver Run Elementary School], Millville Public Schools. Accessed January 8, 2024.</ref> with 423 students in grades K-5, 
Lakeside Middle School<ref>[http://lakeside.millville.org/ Lakeside Middle School], Millville Public Schools. Accessed January 8, 2024.</ref> with 999 students in grades 6-8 and 
[[Millville Senior High School]]<ref>[http://mhs.millville.org/ Millville High School], Millville Public Schools. Accessed January 8, 2024.</ref> with a total 1,638 students in grades 9-12; 
Thunderbolt Academy<ref>[http://thunderbolt.millville.org/ Thunderbolt Academy], Millville Public Schools. Accessed July 8, 2020.</ref> is a partnership between Millville Public Schools and Camelot Education. Camelot offers an alternative setting for students facing behavioral, emotional or academic challenges.<ref>[https://www.millville.org/apps/pages/about-mps/ About the District], Millville Public Schools. Accessed January 8, 2024. "Millville Public Schools is a public school district serving the students of the City of Millville (grades Pre-K to 12) and the Townships of Commercial, Maurice River, and Lawrence (grades 9-12)."</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/3230 New Jersey School Directory for the Millville Public Schools], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>

The district has high school [[sending/receiving relationship]]s with [[Commercial Township, New Jersey|Commercial Township]], [[Lawrence Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey|Lawrence Township]] and [[Maurice River Township, New Jersey|Maurice River Township]].<ref>[http://www.mrtschool.com/about-us About Us], Maurice River Township School District. Accessed August 24, 2014. "The Maurice River Township School District consists of one elementary school and is a sending district to the Millville School District for its high school students.... Maurice River Township transports approximately 180 students to the Memorial and Senior High Schools in Millville."</ref><ref>Jones, Jean. [http://www.nj.com/bridgeton/index.ssf?/base/news-5/123959584577580.xml&coll=10 "Sending districts Maurice River, Commercial, Lawrence, Woodbine suing Millville School District over tuition rates"], ''[[The News of Cumberland County]]'', April 13, 2009. Accessed August 24, 2014. "The suit, filed in the state Administrative Law Court, asks the commissioner of education to resolve a dispute about the method which the Millville school district is using to estimate and audit tuition for four sending districts. The four districts, Maurice River, Commercial, Lawrence and Woodbine, have joined in the suit with Maurice River as the lead agency."</ref> Students from [[Woodbine, New Jersey|Woodbine]] had attended the district's high school programs until a July 2013 ruling by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]] under which Woodbine students would start attending [[Middle Township High School]] as of September 2014, while Woodbine students who had already started attendance in Millville would be allowed to graduate.<ref>D'Amico, Diane. [http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/woodbine-students-to-begin-attending-middle-township-high-school-instead/article_bca7f5c3-f2bc-504d-a1d2-b243fc6850f7.html "Woodbine students to begin attending Middle Township High School instead of Millville"], ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]'', August 6, 2013. Accessed August 24, 2014. "Education Commissioner Chris Cerf has approved the petition by Woodbine in Cape May County to end its sending/receiving relationship with Millville High School and instead send its high school students to Middle Township, which is closer and in the same county."</ref>

As part of a project $137 million project begun in 2019 and funded by the [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]], Millville Senior High School has undergone a project that will add {{convert|82000|sqft}} of space, which will allow all high school students to attend high school in a single building; when complete, the phased high school expansion project will add {{convert|230000|sqft}} of new space at the high school, as well as extensive renovations to existing facilities in the building. Starting in the 1960s, grades 9–10 have been served in Memorial High School and grades 9–12 at Millville Senior High School.<ref>Lowe, Claire. [https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/education/school-officials-celebrate-as-137m-millville-high-school-expansion-underway/article_deac51a8-cbcc-547d-abd6-2ce598cdec13.html "School officials celebrate as $137M Millville High School expansion underway"], ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]'', February 8, 2019. Accessed July 9, 2020. "It’s been decades since the freshmen at Millville High School attended the same building as the juniors and seniors, but in a little more than two years, that will change.... The multiphase, $137.5 million project funded through the New Jersey Schools Development Authority will renovate and update the aging and overcrowded building, and bring unity to the high school, Gentile said. In all, the project will include 230,000 square feet of additions and 55,000 square feet of renovations, according to the SDA."</ref>

Facing a deficit of $3 million for the 2017–2018 school year, the district closed R.D. Wood Elementary School in order to generate $1.8 million in savings.<ref>Smith, Joseph P. [https://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/2017/03/17/millville-wood-school-budget/99299738/ "Millville closing R.D. Wood Elementary to save money"], ''[[The Daily Journal (New Jersey)|The Daily Journal]]'', March 17, 2017. Accessed October 31, 2019. "The city school system is dropping a budget ax on its oldest institution — R.D. Wood Elementary School.... Gentile told ''The Daily Journal'' the district faces a 2017-18 budget gap of about $3 million based on its current anticipation of state aid. Closing Wood School would save a little more than $1.8 million, including transportation costs."</ref>

Students are also eligible to attend [[Cumberland County Technical Education Center]] in Millville<!--It has a Vineland postal address but is actually in Millville-->, serving students from the entire county in its full-time technical training programs, which are offered without charge to students who are county residents.<ref>[https://www.cumberland.tec.nj.us/pdf/CCTech_OverviewBooklet-9-20-19_2.pdf#page=34 Admissions Booklet], [[Cumberland County Technical Education Center]]. Accessed December 20, 2022. "Who Can Apply? Applicants must be enrolled in 8th grade and live in Cumberland County."</ref>

St. Mary Magdalen School was a [[Catholic school]] serving children in grades K–8 operating under the auspices of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden]].<ref>[http://www.camdendiocese.org/index.php?option=com_sobi2&catid=33&Itemid=706 Cumberland County School Directory], [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden]]. Accessed June 14, 2012.</ref> The school opened in 1882 with an enrollment of 45 students.<ref>[http://www.smmrs.org/school_history.html History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113074506/http://www.smmrs.org/school_history.html |date=2011-11-13 }}, Saint Mary Magdalen School. Accessed June 14, 2012. "St. Mary Magdalen Regional School is one of the oldest Catholic schools in the Camden Diocese. Father Charles J. Giese, who was appointed to Saint Mary Magdalen Church in June 1881, opened the school with forty-five students and a teacher named Alice Marshall in 1882."</ref> Former Camden Bishop [[Joseph Anthony Galante|Joseph Galante]] announced in January 2012 that the school would close in June due to poor finances resulting from a declining student body.<ref>Romalino, Carly Q. [http://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/index.ssf/2012/04/edgarton_academy_board_of_trus.html "Edgarton Academy Board of Trustees moving at '100 miles per hour' to open Newfield school"], ''[[Gloucester County Times]]'', April 22, 2012. Accessed June 14, 2012. "Notre Dame in Buena Borough — along with St. Mary Magdalen in Millville and Sacred Heart High School in Vineland — was ordered closed in mid-January by Bishop Joseph Galante, who cited the schools' shrinking enrollment numbers and other financial issues as reason to close the schools."</ref> Bishop Schad School in [[Vineland, New Jersey|Vineland]] and St. Mary Regional School in [[East Vineland]] are nearby.<ref name=JimCookSchool>{{cite web|last=Cook|first=Jim Jr.|url=https://www.nj.com:443/cumberland/2012/01/sacred_heart_high_school_st_ma_1.html|title=Three Catholic schools closing in Cumberland County region|work=[[Nj.com]]|date=2012-01-21|accessdate=2021-04-01|quote=Feuerherd said two area elementary schools will remain open and could be the best choice for those who will be out of a school at the end of the year. [...] “Bishop Schad and St. Mary’s will both remain open,” Feuerherd said.[...]“For high school students, St. Joes in Hammonton is the closest to attend.”.}}</ref> Additionally {{As of|2020}} Bishop McHugh Regional School in [[Dennis Township, New Jersey|Dennis Township]] in [[Cape May County, New Jersey|Cape May County]] accepts students from Millville.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bishopmchugh.com/about_us/areas_we_serve|title=Areas We Serve|publisher=Bishop McHugh Regional Catholic School of Dennis Township|accessdate=2020-09-14}}</ref>

[[Sacred Heart High School (New Jersey)|Sacred Heart High School]] was in nearby Vineland until its 2013 closure.<ref>Woods, Don E. [http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2013/04/sacred_heart_students_mourn_th.html "Sacred Heart students in Vineland mourn the closing of their Catholic high school"], [[NJ.com]], April 12, 2013. Accessed October 20, 2016. "The Board of Limited Jurisdiction, the governing body of the school, which opened in 1927, broke the word to students and staff on Thursday night that the Diocese of Camden had decided to close Sacred Heart citing declining enrollment."</ref> [[St. Joseph High School (Hammonton, New Jersey)|St. Joseph High School]] in [[Hammonton, New Jersey|Hammonton]] was the closest Catholic high school.<ref name=JimCookSchool/> However that school closed in 2020.<ref>Yates, Riley. [https://www.nj.com/education/2020/04/5-nj-catholic-schools-to-close-including-south-jersey-football-powerhouse.html "5 N.J. Catholic schools to close, including South Jersey football powerhouse"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]]. April 17, 2020. Accessed February 19, 2021. "Five Catholic schools in southern New Jersey are closing permanently [...] include Saint Joseph High School in Hammonton,[...]"</ref>

===College===
[[Rowan College of South Jersey]] Cumberland Campus (former [[Cumberland County College]]) is partially in the Millville city limits with the other portion in Vineland.<ref name=Millvillemap>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st34_nj/place/p3446680_millville/DC10BLK_P3446680_000.pdf|title=2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Millville city, NJ|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2021-04-01|page=[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st34_nj/place/p3446680_millville/DC10BLK_P3446680_002.pdf 2]}} - Page 2 has the map of the relevant area.</ref><ref name=Vinelandstreetsmap>{{cite web|url=http://www.vinelandcity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Streets-Map-2014.pdf|title=Streets Map|publisher=Millville, New Jersey|accessdate=2021-04-01}} - Cumberland County College indicated.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rcsj.edu/SiteAssets/campusmap_cc_07112019%20%281%29.pdf|title=Cumberland Campus Map|publisher=[[Rowan College of South Jersey]]|accessdate=2021-04-01}} - Compare with the two city maps</ref>

===Library===
Millville Public Library is the city's public library.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.millvillepubliclibrary.org/|title=Home|publisher=Millville Public Library|accessdate=2021-04-01}}</ref>