Editing Byram Township, New Jersey (section)

== Education ==
The [[Byram Township School District]] serves public school students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]].<ref>[https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=49bbfe0b4b7c4928840887d3310518df Byram Township Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Byram Township School District. Accessed March 8, 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 eight in the Byram Township School District. Composition: The Byram Township School District is comprised of all the area within the County of Sussex."</ref> As of the 2022–23 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 837 students and 74.0 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=3402550&DistrictID=3402550 District information for Byram Township 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>[http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3402550 Byram Township School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>) are 
Byram Lakes Elementary School<ref>[https://www.byramschools.org/byram-lakes-elementary Byram Lakes Elementary School], Byram Township School District. Accessed March 8, 2024.</ref> with 453 students in grades PreK-4 and 
Byram Intermediate School<ref>[https://www.byramschools.org/byram-intermediate-school Byram Intermediate School], Byram Township School District. Accessed March 8, 2024.</ref> with 380 students in grades 5-8.<ref>[https://www.byramschools.org/contact/ Contact Us], Byram Township School District. Accessed March 8, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/37/0640 School Performance Reports for the Byram Township School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed March 8, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/0640 New Jersey School Directory for the Byram Township School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>

For public school students in [[ninth grade|ninth]] through [[twelfth grade]]s, the township shares [[Lenape Valley Regional High School]], which also serves [[Netcong, New Jersey|Netcong]] in [[Morris County, New Jersey|Morris County]] and the Sussex County community of [[Stanhope, New Jersey|Stanhope]].<ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/1516/37/2615/000.html Lenape Valley Regional High School 2016 Report Card Narrative], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed July 12, 2017. "The Lenape Valley Regional High School District (LVR) is a single-school district that receives students from Byram Township and Stanhope Borough in Sussex County and from Netcong Borough in Morris County."</ref><ref>[https://www.lvhs.org/domain/64 About Our School], Lenape Valley Regional High School. Accessed March 8, 2023. "Lenape Valley Regional High School is a four-year regional public high school and school district in New Jersey serving approximately 850 students from two municipalities in Sussex County and one in Morris County. The communities served by the high school are Byram Township and Stanhope Borough in Sussex and Netcong Borough in Morris County. The school is located in Stanhope, New Jersey.'</ref> As of the 2022–23 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 667 students and 58.3 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 11.5:1.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3408500&ID=340850005378 School data for Lenape Valley Regional High School], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>

The Consolidated School, a former public school building that had previously been used by the school district for students in Kindergarten through second grade, has been leased to Celebrate the Children, a private school that serves students with special needs.<ref>Stewart, Amy. [http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2008/02/17/township_journal/news/7.txt "Seats open on Bryam Steering Committee"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319024915/http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2008/02/17/township_journal/news/7.txt |date=2012-03-19 }}, ''The Township Journal'', February 15, 2008. Accessed July 2, 2011. "Looking at the municipal buildings that already exist will be part of the process. These include the civic center, formally the consolidated school. The use of that building on Lackawanna Drive periodically comes into question since a large portion of the building is rented to Celebrate the Children, a school run privately for children with educational disabilities, mainly autism."</ref>

Private schools in the area include Reverend Brown in [[Sparta, New Jersey|Sparta]] for grades K–8 and [[Pope John XXIII Regional High School]], the county's only private high school, which operate under the auspices of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson]].<ref>[https://patdioschools.org/sussex-county Sussex County Catholic Schools], [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson]]. Accessed March 8, 2024.</ref> [[Hilltop Country Day School]], which also serves K–8, also has students from Byram. Byram has students in various private high schools, but all but one school are located outside of Sussex County.