Southern Regional School District

The Southern Regional School District is a regional public school district in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in seventh grade through twelfth grade. The district serves the five municipalities in the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District - Barnegat Light, Harvey Cedars, Long Beach Township, Ship Bottom and Surf City - along with students from Beach Haven and Stafford Township. Also attending the district are students from Ocean Township, who attend the school on a tuition basis as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Ocean Township School District. The student body has grown in recent years in line with population growth in the area. The high school was forced to add a large addition in the mid-1990s due to overcrowding.As of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its two schools had an enrollment of 3,001 students and 222.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.5:1.