The Middletown Township Public School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Middletown Township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
The Middletown School District received national attention in the fall of 2001 when its teachers and secretaries went on strike for the second time in three years.
Swaim retired on January 1, 2008, and was replaced by the first vice-president, Linda McLaughlin There has not been a strike since 2001.
In October 2006, the board of education voted to implement a random drug testing procedure that would require all students in extracurricular activities or with a parking space at either high school to submit their name to a pool for random selection.
From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.