The Mount Laurel Schools is a public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Mount Laurel Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. Mount Laurel Township School District includes eight schools. The grade configuration includes six schools serving kindergarten through fourth-grade students. Students are assigned to one of the six kindergarten through fourth-grade schools based upon a geographic districting plan. All students move into the upper elementary level together for fifth and sixth-grade, and remain together for entrance to the middle school for grades 7 and 8.As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's eight schools had an enrollment of 4,201 students and 329.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.77:1.The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest 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.Public school students from Mount Laurel in ninth through twelfth grades attend Lenape High School, located in Medford Township. Shawnee is part of the Lenape Regional High School District, a regional secondary school district in Burlington County that also serves the eight municipalities of Evesham Township, Medford Lakes, Medford Township, Shamong Township, Southampton Township, Tabernacle Township and Woodland Township at its four high schools.
