Lower Camden County Regional High School was founded in 1939 in Pine Hill, in Camden County,

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

, United States, as part of the

Lower Camden County Regional School District The Lower Camden County Regional School District was a regional public school district serving students in seventh through twelfth grades in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The district served the constituent communities of Berlin Towns ...

. As the school district grew,

Edgewood Regional High School Edgewood Regional High School is the original name of Winslow Township High School that opened in 1958. Though the mailing address of the school was Atco, the site actually resided in the Tansboro section of Winslow Township, in Camden County ...

was built in 1958 and Lower Camden County Regional was renamed Overbrook Regional High School.

History

After the school district was established in 1938, the high school opened as Lower Camden County Regional High School in October 1939 with an enrollment of 700 students from Chesilhurst, Clementon, Lindenwold, Pine Hill and Winslow Township, after having been constructed at a cost of $575,000 (equivalent to $ million in ), of which $258,000 was covered by a grant from the

Public Works Administration The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recove ...

. Prior to the school's opening, about a third of students had attended

Hammonton High School Hammonton High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hammonton, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hammonton ...

. It served students from up to ten municipalities at one point. The population soon began to grow, however, and

(now

Winslow Township High School Winslow Township High School (WTHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Atco section of Winslow Township, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone second ...

) was founded in Winslow Township. The school took the name Overbrook Regional Senior High School in the 1950s, and joined its sister school Edgewood as part of the district. After further expansion of the school district, in 1969 the building was renamed Overbrook Regional Junior High School. In 1999, each of the individual school boards voted to dissolve LCCRHSD. As part of the breakup, Overbrook was taken over by the

Pine Hill Schools The Pine Hill Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Pine Hill, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2018–19 school year, the distr ...

, which became a K-12 district."South Jersey schools almost ready for students"
''

Courier-Post The ''Courier-Post'' is a morning daily newspaper that serves South Jersey in the Delaware Valley. It is based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and serves most of Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester counties. The paper has 30,313 daily paid subscriber ...

'', August 24, 1999. Accessed May 30, 2022, via

Newspapers.com Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical, historical records, and related genetic genealogy websites. In November 2018, ...

. "After the Lower Camden County Regional district is dissolved, Pine Hill will take ownership of Overbrook Senior High School."

References

External links

Lower Camden County Regional High School Class of 1956Lower Camden County Regional Alumni page at Classmates.com

Lindenwold Public Schools

{{authority control 1939 establishments in New Jersey 1999 disestablishments in New Jersey Educational institutions disestablished in 1999 Educational institutions established in 1939 Lindenwold, New Jersey Public high schools in Camden County, New Jersey Defunct schools in New Jersey