Mountain Lakes Schools


The Mountain Lakes Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Mountain Lakes, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2017-18 school year, the district and its four schools had an enrollment of 1,429 students and 150.4 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 9.5:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "J", the 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.
Students from Boonton Township attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.

Awards and recognition

Briarcliff Middle School was one of nine public schools recognized in 2017 as Blue Ribbon Schools by the United States Department of Education.

Schools

Schools in the district are:
;Elementary schools
;Middle school
;High school
;Ungraded
The district's high school was the 7th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 9th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.

Administration

Core members of the district's administration are: