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The Hopewell Valley Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district serving students in preschool through twelfth grade from three communities in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The municipalities that are part of this district are Hopewell Borough, Hopewell Township and Pennington Borough.〔(History ), Hopewell Valley Regional High School. Accessed April 11, 2011. "The district, as it functions today, has been a regionalized operation since 1965 when voters of Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough approved a plan to consolidate their schools. But the first consolidation of local schools actually occurred in 1894 when the 14 separate districts, operating one-room schoolhouses throughout the valley, agreed to merge and be governed by a single school board."〕〔(Hopewell Valley Regional School District 2014 Report Card Narrative ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 19, 2015. "Hopewell Valley serves the two boroughs of Pennington and Hopewell and the much larger Hopewell Township, an area of nearly 60 square miles with a population exceeding 20,000."〕 As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's six schools had an enrollment of 3,797 students and 329.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.51:1.〔(District information for Hopewell Valley Regional School District ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 1, 2014.〕 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.〔(NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 8, 2009.〕 ==Awards and recognition== In 2011, the district was named to the College Board's AP Honor Roll. The honor roll consists of the 388 U.S. public school districts that simultaneously achieved increases in access to AP courses for a broader number of students and also maintained or improved the rated at which their AP students enarned scores of 3 or higher on an AP Exam.〔(2011 AP District of the Year Awards ), College Board. Accessed September 1, 2014.〕 In 2004, the district was named to the American Music Conference's list of the "Best 100 Communities for Music Education in New Jeresey". The district has been recognized repeatedly for the high-caliber music and performing arts programs it offers. NAMM named the district in its 2009 survey of the "Best Communities for Music Education", which included 124 school districts nationwide.〔("Nationwide Survey Finds the 'Best Communities for Music Education' in U.S." ), NAMM, April 16, 2009. Accessed November 13, 2009.〕 The district's high school was the 38th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in ''New Jersey Monthly'' magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 39th in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed April 2, 2011.〕 The magazine took into account factors such as class size, teachers with advanced degrees, and socioeconomic factors. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hopewell Valley Regional School District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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