Dix students to North Hanover schools. Pemberton school officials were against that move. Operations the U.S. military directly pays the school district for education of students, since the district cannot collect property-based school taxes from families on military bases. Attendance area It is the singular school district for most of the township, except portions on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, which is listed by the United States Census Bureau as having its own school district. Students on portions of the joint base attend area school district public schools, as the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) does not operate any schools on that base. Students on-post in the McGuire and Dix areas (McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix) may attend one of the following in their grade levels, with all siblings in a family taking the same choice: Pemberton Township District, North Hanover Township School District, and Northern Burlington County Regional School District. Awards and recognition Pemberton High School was awarded AP District Honor Roll for simultaneously achieving increases in access to Advanced Placement courses for a broader number of students and also maintaining or improved rate at which the school's AP students earned scores of 3 or higher on an AP Exam. In the 2016–2017 school year, Helen Fort Newcomb Middle School, Howard Emmons School and Alexander Denbo School were recognized as State Schools of Character by the New Jersey Alliance for Social, Emotional, and Character Development. In the 2017–2018 school year, Samuel Busansky, Fort Dix, Harker-Wylie and Joseph Stackhouse elementary schools, along with Pemberton Early Childhood Education Center were recognized as State Schools of Character by the NEW Jersey Alliance for Social, Emotional, and Character Development. Student body In 1988 23% of the students in the Pemberton district were from military families. Schools Schools in the district (with 2021–22 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are: Preschool Pemberton Early Childhood Education Center (with 416 students; PreK) Deborah Ceplo, Principal Elementary schools Samuel T. Busansky Elementary School (281; 3–5) Maureen DiBella, Assistant Director; Norman Adams, Principal Denbo-Crichton Elementary School (850; K–5) Brett Thorp, Principal Howard L. Emmons Elementary School (293; K-2) John Schmidt, Principal Fort Dix Elementary School (317; PreK-5) Darvis Holley, Principal Joseph S. Stackhouse Elementary School (223; K-2) Robin Blue, Principal Middle schools Marcus Newcomb Middle School (307; 6) Ashley Walulak, Principal Helen A. Fort Middle School (661; 7–8) Tami Strege, Principal High school Pemberton