Barrington Public Schools
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The Barrington Public Schools are a community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Barrington, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.
For grades 9-12, students attend Haddon Heights High School, which serves Haddon Heights, and students from the neighboring communities of Barrington and Lawnside who attend the high school as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Haddon Heights School District.[1]
[edit] Schools
Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[2]) are:
- Avon Elementary School serves students in grades K-5 (formerly K-3, until 2005-6 renovation) - 230 students
- Principal - Anthony Arcodia
- Woodland School serves grades 6 through 8 (as of 2006-07) - 353 students
- Interim Principal - Mort Argoe
Culbertson School, one of Barrington's two earliest school facilities, built in 1917[3], was closed in 1985.[4] It was replaced by a Rite Aid, but was switched with Castle Academy in about 1998.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ About Our School, accessed May 20, 2008.
- ^ Data for the Barrington Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed May 20, 2008.
- ^ Barrington Becomes a Borough: 1917-1920, accessed April 16, 2007. "School No.2, now known as the Culbertson School, was built in 1917. It was a two-story brick structure whose four class rooms served the fifth through eighth grades."
- ^ Progress in the Sixties and Beyond, accessed April 16, 2007. "In 1985, the Culbertson School, located at Clements Bridge Road and Gloucester Pike, was closed. This marked the final chapter for the two original schools."
- ^ Barrington resident.
