The district was selected as one of the top "100 Best Communities for Music Education in America 2006" by the
American Music Conference. The
NAMM Foundation named the district in its 2008 survey of the "Best Communities for Music Education", which included 110 school districts nationwide. The district's high school was the 16th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in
New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2016 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. In 2022, the
United States Department of Education announced that Center Grove Elementary School was named as a
National Blue Ribbon School, along with eight other schools in the state and 297 schools nationwide. ==Schools==