Editing Waterford Township, New Jersey (section)

==Education==
The [[Waterford Township School District]] serves public school students in [[pre-kindergarten]] through [[sixth grade]].<ref>[https://www.straussesmay.com/seportal/Public/DistrictPolicy.aspx?policyid=0110&id=1844bfa223e7438eb29819f74aec7621 Waterford Township Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification], Waterford Township School District. Accessed April 3, 2020. "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 six in the Waterford Township School District. Composition: The Waterford Township School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Waterford Township."</ref> As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of three schools, had an enrollment of 819 students and 78.5 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 10.4:1.<ref name=NCES>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3417250&DistrictID=3417250 District information for Waterford Township School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed April 1, 2020.</ref> Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the [[National Center for Education Statistics]]<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3417250 School Data for the Waterford Township School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed April 1, 2020.</ref>) are 
Thomas Richards Early Childhood Center<ref>[https://www.wtsd.org/2/Home Thomas Richards Early Childhood Center], Waterford Township School District. Accessed April 3, 2020.</ref> with 221 students in grades 2–3 (now Pre-K–K), 
Atco Elementary School<ref>[https://www.wtsd.org/1/Home Atco Elementary School], Waterford Township School District. Accessed April 3, 2020.</ref> with 193 students in grades K–1 (now grades 1–2) and
Waterford Elementary School<ref>[https://www.wtsd.org/3/Home Waterford Elementary School], Waterford Township School District. Accessed April 3, 2020.</ref> with 400 students in grades 4–6.<ref>[https://www.wtsd.org/Content2/64 About Us], Waterford Township School District. Accessed April 3, 2020. "Waterford Township School District is a prekindergarten – 6th grade district serving approximately 890 students in three schools. Upon graduating from 6th grade, students continue their public education in nearby Hammonton Public School District. School / Grades: Thomas Richards Early Childhood Center Preschool & Kindergarten; Atco Elementary School Grades 1-2; Waterford Elementary School Grades 3- 6"</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/5560 New Jersey School Directory for the Waterford Township School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>

For [[seventh grade|seventh]] through [[twelfth grade]]s, public school students attend the [[Hammonton Public Schools]] in [[Hammonton, New Jersey|Hammonton]] as part of a [[sending/receiving relationship]], alongside students from [[Folsom, New Jersey|Folsom]], who attend for grades 9–12 as part of an agreement with the [[Folsom Borough School District]].<ref>[http://www.nj.gov/education/pr/1415/narrative/01/1960/000.html Hammonton Public Schools 2015 Report Card Narrative], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed May 24, 2016. "The Hammonton Public School System serves children from Hammonton, Waterford, and Folsom - as well as over 140 NJ Department of Education Choice students."</ref><ref>Puko, Timothy. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AC&p_theme=ac&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=117DE8C0A5711158&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Sending Towns Feeling Pinched by Hammonton"], ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]'', March 13, 2007. Accessed June 29, 2011. "The two school districts that send students to Hammonton are disputing tuition adjustments that would allow Hammonton School District to avoid a tax hike this year but cause large tax hikes in the sending districts. The school budgets for Hammonton and its sending districts Waterford and Folsom could hang in limbo well past next month's school board elections, and Waterford and Folsom could be left with budget fights and massive cuts, sending district superintendents said."</ref> In the wake of the dissolution of the [[Lower Camden County Regional School District]], the Hammonton board of education voted in 1999 to begin accepting an estimated 800 students from Waterford Township for grades 7–12 starting as soon as 2002, with the tuition paid by students from Waterford helping to lower overall costs to Hammonton taxpayers and the [[New Jersey Department of Education]] approved the agreement.<ref>Arnold, Stephanie L. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131111231011/http://articles.philly.com/1999-03-25/news/25513057_1_school-budget-school-board-students "Hammonton Board Decides To Accept Waterford Students More Money For An Improved Curriculum Is Expected Once The 800 Junior And Senior High Pupils Arrive."], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', March 25, 1999. Accessed December 15, 2014. "The school board has been mulling the issue since the Waterford Board of Education, in Camden County, decided in September that it wanted to send its 800 junior high and high school students to the Atlantic County school district. Last year, five of seven towns that make up the Lower Camden County Regional School District voted to dissolve it within three years, leaving each town responsible for educating its students."</ref><ref>[http://www.nj.gov/education/legal/commissioner/2000/2-00.pdf ''Board of Education of the Town of Hammonton, Atlantic County, petitioner''], [[New Jersey Department of Education]], January 4, 2000. Accessed December 15, 2014. "This matter arises from the pending dissolution of the Lower Camden County Regional School District No. 1 (LCCR). Petitioner, Hammonton BOE, has a proposed sending/receiving contract with Waterford, one of the constituent districts of the LCCR, to accept that district's students in grades 7-12....The Commissioner found that education law poses no impediment to Hammonton entering a sending/receiving relationship with Waterford pursuant to the parties' proposed agreement (N.J.S.A. 18A:38-11)."</ref> Schools in the Hammonton district attended by Waterford Township students (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the [[National Center for Education Statistics]]<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3406570 School Data for the Hammonton Public Schools], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed April 1, 2020.</ref>) are 
Hammonton Middle School<ref>[https://www.hammontonschools.org/administrators/Middle-School-Administration Hammonton Middle School]{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Hammonton Public Schools. Accessed April 3, 2020.</ref> with 879 students in grades 6–8 and 
[[Hammonton High School]]<ref>[https://www.hammontonschools.org/administrators/High-School-Administration Hammonton High School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191122213832/https://www.hammontonschools.org/administrators/High-School-Administration |date=November 22, 2019 }}, Hammonton Public Schools. Accessed April 3, 2020.</ref> with 1,393 students in grade 9–12.<ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/1960 New Jersey School Directory for the Hammonton Public Schools], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>

Assumption School, located in Atco, was an elementary school that operated under the auspices of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden]], which closed the school at the end of the 2012–2013 school year in the wake of declining enrollment, though parents and contributors argued that they had raised the funds and met the attendance criteria needed to keep the school operating.<ref>Laday, Jason. [http://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2013/05/fuming_parents_question_wherea.html "Fuming parents question whereabouts of $340K after closure of Atco Catholic school"], ''[[South Jersey Times]]'', May 10, 2013. Accessed November 11, 2013. "There is a serious lack of trust, and $340,000, at Assumption School in Atco. The Diocese of Camden's decision in February to close the school at the end of this academic year has caused a wave of anger and accusations from parents and other supporters, who have since cried fraud over the apparent disappearance of hundreds of thousands of dollars they say they have raised over the last two and a half years in order to keep the school going."</ref>