Batetsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and borders with Luzhsky District of Leningrad Oblast in the northwest, Novgorodsky District in the east, and with Shimsky District in the south. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Batetsky. District's population: 6,996 (2002 Census); The population of the administrative center accounts for 35.6% of the district's total population.