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==Education== The [[Frenchtown School District]] serves public school students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[eighth grade]] at Edith Ort Thomas Elementary School.<ref name=HunterdonSchools>[https://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/DocumentCenter/View/16215/2024-2025-Public-School-Directory-003?bidId= ''2024-2025 Public School Directory''], [[Hunterdon County, New Jersey|Hunterdon County]] Department of Education. Accessed March 1, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/19/1680 School Performance Reports for the Frenchtown Borough School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed April 3, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/1680 New Jersey School Directory for the Frelinghuysen Township 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 104 students and 15.6 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 6.7:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3405700&DistrictID=3405700 District information for Frenchtown Borough School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed December 15, 2024.</ref> In the 2016–2017 school year, Frenchtown was tied for the 18th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 129 students.<ref>Guion, Payton. [https://www.nj.com/education/2017/09/njs_smallest_school_districts.html "These 43 N.J. school districts have fewer than 200 students"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], September 2017. Accessed January 30, 2020. "Based on data from the state Department of Education from the last school year and the Census Bureau, NJ Advance Media made a list of the smallest of the small school districts in the state, excluding charter schools and specialty institutions.... 18. Frenchtown Borough (tie); Enrollment: 129; Grades: Pre-K-8; County: Hunterdon; Town population: 1,373"</ref> Public school students in [[ninth grade|ninth]] through [[twelfth grade]]s attend the [[Delaware Valley Regional High School]] in Frenchtown, which serves students in western Hunterdon County from [[Alexandria Township, New Jersey|Alexandria]], [[Holland Township, New Jersey|Holland]] and [[Kingwood Township, New Jersey|Kingwood]] Townships along with the boroughs of Frenchtown and [[Milford, New Jersey|Milford]].<ref>[https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=f6c09ab4e35d4f5582368558e635a06a Delaware Valley Regional Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Delaware Valley Regional High School, readopted June 28, 2021. Accessed March 6, 2025. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades nine through twelve in the Delaware Valley Regional High School District. Composition: The Delaware Valley Regional High School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Alexandria Township, Frenchtown Borough, Holland Township, Kingwood Township, and Milford Borough."</ref><ref>[http://www.nj.gov/education/pr/1415/narrative/19/1050/000.html Delaware Valley Regional School District 2015 Report Card Narrative], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed June 6, 2016. "The Delaware Valley Regional High School District can be found in the heart of pastoral and beautiful Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The District serves students in grades nine through twelve who reside in the five municipalities that comprise our region: Alexandria Township, Frenchtown Borough, Holland Township, Kingwood Township, and Milford Borough."</ref><ref>[https://www.dvrhs.org/page/our-story Our Story], Delaware Valley Regional High School District. Accessed March 6, 2025. "Delaware Valley Regional High School was the third high school created in Hunterdon County. Supported by voters and bond money from the five municipalities of Alexandria, Holland, and Kingwood townships; Frenchtown, and Milford, it was in the 'geographic center of the region it serves,' according to news accounts."</ref><ref>[http://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/schools/districts.htm Chief School Administrators/Sending Districts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160612171714/http://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/schools/districts.htm |date=June 12, 2016 }}, [[Hunterdon County, New Jersey]] Superintendent of Schools. Accessed June 6, 2016.</ref> As of the 2023–24 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 692 students and 61.5 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 11.3:1.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3403750&ID=340375002978 School data for Delaware Valley Regional High School], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed December 15, 2024.</ref> The seats on the high school district's nine-member board of education are allocated based on population, with one seat allocated to Frenchtown.<ref>[https://www.dvrhs.org/page/board-of-education Board of Education], Delaware Valley Regional High School. Accessed March 6, 2025.</ref> Eighth grade students from all of Hunterdon County are eligible to apply to attend the high school programs offered by the [[Hunterdon County Vocational School District]], a county-wide vocational school district that offers career and technical education at its campuses in [[Raritan Township, New Jersey|Raritan Township]] and at programs sited at local high schools, with no tuition charged to students for attendance.<ref>Heyboer, Kelly. [https://www.nj.com/education/2017/05/how_to_get_your_kid_into_one_of_njs_elite_high_sch.html "How to get your kid a seat in one of N.J.'s hardest-to-get-into high schools"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], May 2017. Accessed November 18, 2019. "Hunterdon County's vo-tech district has three academies for high-achieving students, all operating in partnerships with local high schools.... The academies are open to all students in the county. Students in the 8th grade are required to submit an application, schedule an interview and take a placement exam."</ref>
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