Editing Winfield Township, New Jersey (section)

==Education==
The [[Winfield Township School District]] serves public school students in [[pre-kindergarten]] to [[eighth grade]] at Winfield School.<ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/5810 New Jersey School Directory for the Winfield Township School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 139 students and 18.0 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 7.7:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3418030&DistrictID=3418030 District information for Winfield Township], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed April 1, 2020.</ref> In the 2016–17 school year, Winfield had the 19th-smallest enrollment of any school district in the state, with 140 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.... 19. Winfield Township; Enrollment: 140; Grades: Pre-K-8; County: Union"</ref> The school offers a class for students with special needs.

Public school students in [[ninth grade|ninth]] through [[twelfth grade]]s attend [[David Brearley High School]] in [[Kenilworth, New Jersey|Kenilworth]], as part of a [[sending/receiving relationship]] with the [[Kenilworth Public Schools]].<ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/1516/39/2420/010.html David Brearly Middle/High School 2016 School Report Card], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed June 23, 2020. "David Brearley Middle-High School serves students in Grades 7-12 from Kenilworth, Winfield, and surrounding communities that who participate in the School Choice Program."</ref> As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 757 students and 63.5 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 11.9:1.<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3407920&ID=340792000209 School data for David Brearley Middle/High School], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed April 1, 2020.</ref> Before the current sending relationship had been established with Brearley, students had attended [[Rahway High School]] until a decision by the [[New Jersey Department of Education]] in March 2000 allowed for termination of the relationship.<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/education/legal/commissioner/2000/76-00.pdf Commissioner of Education's Decision in ''Board of Education of the Township of Winfield, Union County v. Board of Education of the City of Rahway, Union County''], [[New Jersey Department of Education]], March 2, 2000. Accessed June 23, 2020. "Accordingly, the Initial Decision is adopted as the final decision in this matter for the reasons expressed therein. Winfield's application for severance of its sending-receiving relationship with Rahway is hereby granted, subject to its entering into a new sending-receiving relationship with Kenilworth for a minimum of five years. Withdrawal shall be phased out over a four-year period, beginning with the incoming 9th grade class in September 2000."</ref>

Students in public school for grades 9–12 may also attend the schools of the [[Union County Vocational Technical Schools]] in [[Scotch Plains, New Jersey|Scotch Plains]].<ref>[http://www.ucvts.tec.nj.us/domain/101 Full-Time Opportunities], [[Union County Vocational Technical Schools]]. Accessed November 12, 2013. "Applicants are selected from a diverse population of eighth grade students in each of the twenty-one municipalities in Union County."</ref>