Mount Laurel Township School District includes eight schools serving 4,557 students in preschool through eighth-grade. We are located in Mount Laurel, one of the fastest growing municipalities in Burlington County, New Jersey.
Our grade configuration includes six schools serving preschool through fourth-grade students. Students are assigned to their elementary school 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. Mount Laurel is one of eight sending districts to the Lenape Regional High School District, located in adjacent Medford, for 9th through 12th-grade.
A major employer within the community, Mount Laurel School District has over 470 certified staff members and an additional contingent of 440-plus support staff. Our transportation department operates a tiered busing system that covers the municipality's 22 square miles four times each day. Mount Laurel Schools' maintenance and custodial staff maintains 669,928 square-feet of educational space on a daily basis.
Mount Laurel Township is strategically located in one of the fastest growing areas of the Greater Philadelphia Region. It is the fourth largest municipality in Burlington County, with convenient access to major thoroughfares and public transportation for Philadelphia and New York City.