The Barnegat Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Barnegat Township, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.^[3]

As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprising six schools, had an enrollment of 3,583 students and 272.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.1:1.^[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the third-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.^[4]

Schools in the district (with 2021-22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics^[5]) are:^[6][7][8][9]

Elementary schools

• Lillian M. Dunfee Elementary School^[10] with 293 students in PreK
  • Jennifer Froehlich, principal^[11]
• Cecil S. Collins Elementary School^[12] with 759 students in grades K-2
  • Patrick Magee, principal^[13]
• Joseph T. Donahue Elementary School^[14] with 479 students in grades 3-4
  • Regina Santolla, principal^[15]
• Robert L. Horbelt Elementary School^[16] with 498 students in grades 5-6
  • Joseph Saxton, principal^[17]

Middle school

• Russell O. Brackman Middle School^[18] with 552 students in grades 7-8
  • Josh Toddings, principal^[19]

High school

• Barnegat High School^[20] with 971 students in grades 9-12
  • Patrick Magee, principal^[21]

Barnegat High School opened in September 2004 with a freshman class, adding a new class each subsequent year until all four grades were populated. The last group of students from Barnegat completed twelfth grade at Southern Regional High School in Stafford Township at the end of the 2006-07 school year through a now-ended sending/receiving relationship with the Southern Regional School District.^[22]

Core members of the district's administration are:^{[23] [24]}

• Brian Latwis, superintendent
• Stephen J. Brennan, business administrator and board secretary

The district's board of education is comprised of nine members who set policy and oversee 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 three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) 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.^[25][26]