Editing Fieldsboro, New Jersey (section)

==Education==
Students in public school for [[kindergarten]] through [[twelfth grade]] attend the schools of the [[Bordentown Regional School District]], which also serves students from [[Bordentown, New Jersey|Bordentown City]] and [[Bordentown Township, New Jersey|Bordentown Township]].<ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/1516/05/0475/000.html Bordentown Regional School District 2016 Report Card Narrative] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042056/https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/1516/05/0475/000.html |date=December 1, 2017 }}, [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed November 27, 2017. "Bordentown Regional School District is a vibrant learning community, proudly serving the communities of Fieldsboro, Bordentown City and Bordentown Township.... In addition to the three aforementioned communities, Bordentown Regional High School also welcomes students from New Hanover into its ninth-twelfth grade population."</ref><ref>Staff. [https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/story/news/2015/04/26/regional-school-districts/17563855007/ "Regional School Districts"], ''[[Burlington County Times]]'', April 26, 2015. Accessed February 11, 2025. "Bordentown Regional - Serves: Bordentown City, Bordentown Township, Fieldsboro, New Hanover"</ref> As of the 2023–24 school year, the district, comprised of five schools, had an enrollment of 2,232 students and 190.0 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=3402030&DistrictID=3402030 District information for Bordentown Regional School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed December 15, 2024.</ref> Schools in the district (with 2023–24 enrollment data from the [[National Center for Education Statistics]]<ref>[http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3402030 School Data for the Bordentown Regional School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed December 15, 2024.</ref>) are 
Clara Barton Elementary School<ref>[https://cbs.bordentown.k12.nj.us/ Clara Barton Elementary School], Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed February 11, 2025.</ref> with 215 students in grades K–2 (generally serves Bordentown City and the Holloway Meadows section of Bordentown Township), 
Peter Muschal Elementary School<ref>[https://pms.bordentown.k12.nj.us/ Peter Muschal Elementary School], Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed February 11, 2025.</ref> with 480 students in grades PreK–5 (generally serves remainder of Bordentown Township and the Borough of Fieldsboro), 
MacFarland Intermediate School<ref>[https://mis.bordentown.k12.nj.us/ MacFarland Intermediate School], Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed February 11, 2025.</ref> with 247 students in grades 3–5, 
Bordentown Regional Middle School<ref>[https://brms.bordentown.k12.nj.us/ Bordentown Regional Middle School], Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed February 11, 2025.</ref> with 505 students in grades 6–8 and 
[[Bordentown Regional High School]]<ref>[https://brhs.bordentown.k12.nj.us/ Bordentown Regional High School], Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed February 11, 2025.</ref> with 762 students in grades 9–12.<ref>[https://www.bordentown.k12.nj.us/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=443367&type=d&pREC_ID=955925 District Information], Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed February 11, 2025. "What communities make up the Regional School District? Our district is comprised of the Township of Bordentown, the City of Bordentown and the Borough of Fieldsboro. New Hanover Township sends students on a tuition basis grades 9-12.... There are five schools in the school district. There are two elementary schools serving students in full day kindergarten through grade 3; Clara Barton is located in Bordentown City, and Peter Muschal is located in Bordentown Township. MacFarland Intermediate School, located in Bordentown City, serves grades 4 & 5, while Bordentown Regional Middle School, located in Bordentown Township, serves grades 6, 7 & 8 and Bordentown Regional High School serves grades 9-12 and is located in Bordentown Township."</ref><ref>[https://www.co.burlington.nj.us/DocumentCenter/View/18358/Public-Schools-Directory-2023-24#page=7 ''Public Schools Directory 2023–2024''], [[Burlington County, New Jersey]]. Accessed March 1, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/05/0475 School Performance Reports for the Bordentown Regional School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed April 3, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/0475 New Jersey School Directory for the Bordentown Regional School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref> The district's [[board of education]] is comprised of nine members, who are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year.<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/cafr/search/18/0475.pdf#page=63 ''Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the Bordentown Regional School District''], [[New Jersey Department of Education]], for year ending June 30, 2018. Accessed February 7, 2020. "The Bordentown Regional School District (hereafter referred to as the 'District') is a Type II district located in the County of Burlington, State of New Jersey. As a Type II district, the School District functions independently through a Board of Education. The Board is comprised of nine members elected to three-year terms. These terms are staggered so that three members’ terms expire each year. The purpose of the District is to educate students in grades kindergarten through twelfth at its five schools."</ref><ref>[https://www.bordentown.k12.nj.us/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=443403&type=d&pREC_ID=956047 Board Members], Bordentown Regional School District. Accessed February 7, 2020.</ref> The board's nine seats are allocated based on the population of the constituent municipalities, with one seat assigned to Fieldsboro.<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/treasury/lgbr/schpdf/bordentownboe.pdf#page=4 ''Government That Works; Opportunities For Change: The Report of the Bordentown Regional School District''], [[New Jersey Department of the Treasury]], September 1999. Accessed February 7, 2020. "The Bordentown Regional School District is composed of three municipalities, Bordentown Township (Township), Bordentown City (City) and Fieldsboro Borough (Borough). The school district is governed by a Board of Education consisting of five members from the Township, three from the City, and one from the Borough, and one non-voting member from the New Hanover Township District, which sends students in grades nine through twelve on a tuition basis."</ref>

The [[New Hanover Township School District]], consisting of [[New Hanover Township, New Jersey|New Hanover Township]] (including its [[Cookstown, New Jersey|Cookstown]] area) and [[Wrightstown, New Jersey|Wrightstown Borough]], sends students to Bordentown Regional High School on a tuition basis for grades 9–12 as part of a [[sending/receiving relationship]] that has been in place since the 1960s, with about 50 students from the New Hanover district being sent to the high school.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060927193134/http://www.bcls.lib.nj.us/test/new/schools/hsdistricts.shtml High School Sending Districts], Burlington County Library System, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of September 27, 2006. Accessed October 1, 2014.</ref><ref>Kuzminski, Charles; and Thomas W. [http://nhts.schoolwires.net/cms/lib2/NJ01001757/Centricity/ModuleInstance/617/New%20Hanover%20Feasibility%20Study.pdf "Study on Behalf of the New Hanover School District on the Feasibility of Extending the District's Send/Receive Relationship to Include Students in Grades 6 – 8], The Educational Information and Resource Center, November 2011. Accessed October 1, 2014. "The New Hanover Township School District has participated in a send/receive relationship with the Bordentown Regional District since approximately 1960. Each year 45-55 New Hanover School District students attend Bordentown Regional High School."</ref> As of 2011, the New Hanover district was considering expansion of its relationship to send students to Bordentown for middle school for grades 6–8.<ref>Zimmaro, Mark. [http://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/news/local/new-hanover-school-to-decide-on-middle-school-proposal/article_098e6d0f-5b34-5953-9d6d-90b12ca8716b.html "New Hanover School to decide on middle school proposal"], ''[[Burlington County Times]]'', March 11, 2011. Accessed October 1, 2014. "New Hanover — The township's school district will decide on Wednesday whether to enter an agreement with the Bordentown Regional School District for a send-receive agreement for middle school children. The district which serves New Hanover and Wrightstown, already sends its high school students to Bordentown Regional High School and district officials are trying to determine whether sending sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to Bordentown Regional Middle School would be a feasible idea."</ref>

Students from Fieldsboro, and from all of Burlington County, are eligible to attend the [[Burlington County Institute of Technology]], a countywide public school district that serves the vocational and technical education needs of students at the high school and post-secondary level at its campuses in [[Medford, New Jersey|Medford]] and [[Westampton Township, New Jersey|Westampton Township]].<ref>[http://www.bcit.cc/Page/71 Why Choose BCIT?], [[Burlington County Institute of Technology]]. Accessed November 26, 2013.</ref>