The Elk Township School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade from Elk Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 619 students and 35.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.6:1.The district is 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.For seventh through twelfth grades, public school students attend the Delsea Regional School District, which serves students from both Elk Township and Franklin Township. Students from Newfield attend the district as part of a sending/receiving relationship begun in September 2010 after Newfield ended its prior relationship with the Buena Regional School District. Schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Delsea Regional Middle School with 537 students in grades 7 and 8, and Delsea Regional High School with 1,164 students in grades 9 - 12.
