Staff. "Regional School Districts", Burlington County Times, April 26, 2015. Accessed April 2, 2020. "Lenape Regional Serves: Evesham, Medford, Medford Lakes, Mount Laurel, Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle, Woodland"
Staff. "Hall of Fame to honor Lenape High School student-athletes", Burlington County Times, July 6, 2017. Accessed January 19, 2020. "The schools of the Lenape Regional School District have produced thousands of graduates who have distinguished themselves as stellar athletes over the nearly 60 years since Lenape High School opened in 1958, Shawnee High School in 1970, Cherokee High School in 1975 and Seneca High School in 2003."
Sending Schools, Lenape Regional High School District. Accessed March 19, 2024.
Profile and History, Lenape Regional High School District. Accessed March 19, 2024. "The Lenape District’s four high schools are: Lenape, Shawnee, Cherokee North and South and Seneca. Students from Mount Laurel attend Lenape; students from Medford, Medford Lakes attend Shawnee; students from Evesham (Marlton) attend Cherokee North and South and students from Tabernacle, Shamong, Southampton and Woodland attend Seneca."
Profile, Lenape Regional High School District. Accessed March 13, 2022. "By September 1975, a third high school, Cherokee, had been built on a 71 – acre tract at Tomlinson Mill and Willow Bend roads in Evesham Township."
Administration, Lenape Regional High School District. Accessed March 19, 2024.
Board of Education, Lenape Regional High School District. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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"7 Burlington Towns Vote to Build $2 Million Regional High School", Courier-Post, September 21, 1955. Accessed March 13, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Residents of seven municipalities in the southern part of Burlington County gave a resounding 'yes' Tuesday to a proposal to create a new regional high school. At a special school election, the vote was 'yes' 1413 to 'no' on a plan to build a school to cost an approximate $2 million and which would accommodate 1000 pupils."
"People Back New Schools; School Cost Discrepancies", Courier-Post, September 24, 1955. Accessed March 13, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The same night saw another special school election in seven municipalities in southern Burlington County. The question to be voted on was creation of a regional high school district and building of a regional high school. Municipalities involved were Mt. Laurel, Medford, Shamong, Medford Lakes, Tabernacle, Evesham and Southampton, none of which have high schools of their own. All of them gave one-sided majorities in favor of the proposition, the total vote being 1413 to 97 for it. Tentative plans for the new regional school call for a building to accommodate 1000 pupils, costing about $2,000,000."
Curran, Karen. "High schools in Delran, Evesham ready to open", Courier-Post, August 21, 1975. Accessed March 13, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "It is for students from Evesham, but it's also for students from the six other towns which make up the Lenape Regional High School District. The local share of the $7 million cost of Cherokee High School, the third school in the Lenape district, will be shared by the seven municipalities according to the percentage of tax ratables they have within the district as a whole. Of the district's 4,950 high school students, 750 ninth and tenth graders will go to Cherokee in the fall."
New Site Is Picked For Regional High", Courier-Post, June 2, 1956. Accessed May 20, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "A new site has been chosen for the Lenape Regional High School, according to James Brown, Board of Education president. Brown said a 50-acre tract on the northwest corner of Hartford and Church rds., Medford Township, was chosen after test borings disclosed a former proposed site at Green Tree and Sharp Run rds. to be unsuitable.... The Lenape region was formed after a favorable vote last year by residents in Mt. Laurel, Southampton, Medford, Medford Lakes, Shamong and Tabernacle Townships. Plans are being formed for construction of a proposed $2 million high school."
"Rancocas Regional Completes Opening", Courier-Post, September 10, 1958. Accessed May 20, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Rancocas Valley Regional High School, Jackonville rd., opens its new school year Thursday for freshman and sophomore students.... Harry Wenrich, school principal, anticipates the total enrollment this year will be 1170 students compared with 1260 last year. Students from Tabernacle, Medford and Medford Lakes who have previously attended classes here will be enrolled in the new Lenape Regional High School at Medford."
"Lenape Regional Schools Take New Discipline Tack", Courier-Post, August 20, 1970. Accessed March 12, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "New Shawnee High School in Medford township, a $4.5 million complex, will open Sept. 8. The round center building houses the 33 regular classrooms; the outer wings include the auditorium, gym and cafeteria. In background are the football and baseball fields."
Ross, Adele. "Lenape School; $7.6 million Bond OKd By Voters", Courier-Post, December 6, 1972. Accessed March 13, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Voters in the Lenape Regional School District last night approved by a slim margin a $7,695,000 bond issue to give the district the funds to build a third high school. Voting returns showed a count of 1,623 to 1,329 in favor of the bond issue, which means the regional school board can plan on breaking ground in the spring. Although the issue passed by a 293-vote plurality, it was defeated in four of the seven municipalities served by the district.... The facility is expected to open for the 1975-76 school year. The new high school will be built on a 71-acre tract between the Marlton and Kresson sections of Evesham Township, the district's most populous area, to relieve overcrowded conditions in the district's two existing facilities. The 1,500-student school will be built on a tract off Tomlinson Mill Road and will be constructed from the same plans as was the Shawnee High School in Medford.... Overcrowded conditions at both Shawnee and Lenape high schools will necessitate split sessions at the two facilities in the next two years, the superintendent said. Lenape's rolls now top 2,400 students with 2,600 expected next year. There are more than 1,600 students at Shawnee, where an increase of 200 is anticipated in September 1973."
Wilson, David E. "Woodland youths may get to skip Pemberton High; Well, the way is clearer for them to go to Lenape Regional. Parents have yearned for that for years.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 8, 1996. Accessed March 13, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Convinced that the Lenape Regional High School District can offer a better education for graduates of their elementary school, many parents want to end an almost 70-year relationship with Pemberton Township High School.... All that the Woodland educators needed to get started on the switch to Lenape was Pemberton's permission. But Pemberton officials, mindful of the negative publicity such a move would create and the $7,800 annual tuition payment for each graduate of Chatsworth Elementary School said 'no' every time.... Losing Woodland's students would be a financial loss for the Pemberton Township School District, which as a special-needs district already qualifies for additional state dollars. With the transfer of the Woodland students, the high school would lose about $300,000. About 1,350 students attend Pemberton Township High School."
Harbach, Louise. "Lenape district board lets Woodland in", The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 12, 1997. Accessed March 13, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "After years spent trying to sever its sending-receiving relationship with Pemberton Township, the Woodland Board of Education has finally gotten its wish: Come September, high school students from the sprawling 94-square-mile township deep in the Pinelands will attend school in the Lenape Regional High School District. Next year, about 15 Woodland students from the sparsely populated municipality will go to Lenape Regional High School, one of three high schools in the Lenape district, following a decision Tuesday by the Lenape school board. As a result of the Lenape board's decision, Woodland will be admitted as the eighth member of the regional district. Since 1958, Lenape has consisted of students from Evesham, Medford, Medford Lakes, Mount Laurel, Shamong, Southampton and Tabernacle."
"Cherokee South receives A+", Courier-Post, September 9, 2001. Accessed March 13, 2022, via newspapers.com. "Education leaders from Burlington County gathered here Saturday to ceremonially throw open the doors to the new $26.4 million Cherokee High School South. It is a school within a school that is now home for 1,150 ninth- and 10th-graders who live in the township.... On Tuesday, the 210,000-square-foot addition opened to freshmen with state-of-the-art laboratories, spacious corridors and natural lighting around virtually every corner. Combined with the former Cherokee High School, now called Cherokee North, the education complex stretches some 455,000 square feet."
Daniels, Mike. "Seneca High awaits Students; School will get 860 students from 4 S. J. towns in first year", Courier-Post, August 25, 2003. Accessed March 12, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Seneca High School, the newest addition to the Lenape Regional High School District, is ready and waiting for students and teachers to fill its hallways, gymnasiums and classrooms. The 255,008-square-foot building sits on 210 acres on Carranza Road.... The school, approved by district voters in a 1997 referendum, will house about 860 students from Tabernacle, Shamong, Southampton and Woodland in its first year. The move to Seneca was mandatory for all incoming ninth- and 10th-graders in the four Pinelands townships.... Enrollment should rise to more than 1,400 within two years, district officials said. The $45.7 million building can hold 1,500 students and was designed to allow for expansion to hold 2,000 students.... The school originally was scheduled to open in 2000. But construction was delayed by a series of legal challenges filed by the nonprofit Pinelands Preservation Alliance and a citizens organization, the Rural Tabernacle Coalition. The legal challenges contributed to the school costing about $8.7 million more than originally planned."
Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for Lenape Regional High School District, New Jersey Department of Education, year ending June 30, 2023. Accessed March 19, 2024. "The Lenape Regional High School District is a Type II School District located in the County of Burlington, State of New Jersey. As a Type II School District, the School District functions independently through a Board of Education. The Board is comprised of eleven members elected to three-year terms. These terms are staggered so that three members’ terms expire each year. The purpose of the School District is to educate students in grades 9-12 at its four schools. "
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Staff. "High School's Design Reflects Modern Era", The New York Times, June 16, 1968. Accessed January 19, 2020. "The $3.5-million building is actually two buildings--a round, two-story building attached to a one-story crescent-shaped wing by two enclosed passageways resembling spokes in a wheel. Shawnee High School will serve the communities of Medford, Medford Lakes, Mount Laurel, Shamong, Evesham, Southampton and Tabernacle in Burlington County."
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Hatoff, Mark. "One Of Two Principal Positions To Be Eliminated At Cherokee High", Pine Barrens Tribune, May 11, 2018. Accessed January 19, 2020. "The Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD) Board of Education will eliminate one of two Cherokee High School principal positions in the 2018-19 school year, following an Aug. 1 retirement of longtime Cherokee South Principal Leonard Iannelli, according to Finance Committee Chair David Stow. The use of separate Cherokee High School North and South designations had been used to justify having two principals at what is essentially the same school, even though a similarly redundant position was eliminated a couple years ago at Lenape High School."
Lenape Regional High School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 7, 2020. "The Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD) serves the eight municipalities of Evesham, Medford, Mount Laurel, Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle and Woodland Townships and Medford Lakes Borough. Encompassing an area of 350 square miles the Lenape District is the largest school district in Burlington County."
Lenape Regional Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Name, Composition & Classification, Lenape Regional High School District. Accessed March 19, 2024. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades nine through twelve in the Lenape Regional High School District. Section 3 – Composition: The Lenape Regional High School District shall be organized in the territory comprised of the municipalities of: Evesham, Medford, Medford Lakes, Mount Laurel, Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle and Woodland for the limited purpose of providing and operating a high school district (9-12)."
Lenape Regional Board of Education District Policy 0140 - Board Membership, Qualifications, Prohibited Acts, Travel and related Expense, Lenape Regional High School District. Accessed March 19, 2024. "The Board of Education shall consist of eleven (11) members. Representation is predicated upon the population of a constituent district in relation to the regional district's total population which in turn is based upon the most recently published U.S. Census Report. Each constituent district shall be entitled to a minimum of one Board member elected at large."
