The first mention of schools in the town records is of action taken at a meeting of the town committee, Sept. 2,1826; it was "ordered that Overseer John H. Voorhees pay the schooling of (giving the name of two boys), now paupers, until bound out." April 16th, the next year, it was ordered "that each member of the committee expend the sum of $20 in his district for the education of poor children which may reside in said district, it necessary."

The first mention of a common school is in a resolution passed April 9, 1832, and in the election record of 1834 appear the names of Peter D. Vroom, Peter Q. Elmendorf, Abraham Skillman, Henry Tunison, and Richard Stout as the first school committee.

For several years $500 was annually raised. In 1854 the amount was $2000, and the surplus revenue appropriated; 1864, $3000 and the surplus revenue; 1880, $7580.56, including State appropriation, twomill tax, and surplus revenue.
The following statement is taken from the report of the State board of education of 1879, and shows the present state of the schools: