Lakehurst School District


The Lakehurst School District is a community public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Lakehurst, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
As of the 2023–24 school year, the district, comprised of one school, had an enrollment of 406 students and 40.8 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 10.0:1.
Public school students from Lakehurst in ninth through twelfth grades attend Manchester Township High School in Manchester Township, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Manchester Township School District. As of the 2023–24 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 943 students and 86.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
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History

By July 1973, Central Regional High School had been operating on double sessions at the high school for two years and estimated that it would run out of room to operate on double sessions within two years, leading Lakehurst to exit the district and pursue options with Manchester Township for its 250 high school students. In October 1973, the Lakehurst School District announced that its students would be shifted from Central Regional to the new Manchester Township High School, which opened in September 1976.
The Lakehurst district decided in 2012 against a proposal that would have had borough students attend Jackson Liberty High School as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the Jackson School District. The change in the sending relationship had been considered as a means of reducing the costs associated with paying $14,000 for each of the 150 students attending Manchester High School, as opposed to the $11,300 that would have been paid at Jackson, yielding annual savings of $400,000, less the added cost of transporting students to and from Jackson.
The district had been classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "B", the second lowest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

Attendance boundary

The district includes students from the Lakehurst component of Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst.

School

Lakehurst Elementary School had an enrollment of 404 students in grades PreK–8 in the 2023–24 school year.

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are:

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of five members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with one or two seats up for election each year held as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district.