Student Enrollment, Kingsway Regional School District. Accessed January 26, 2020. "Kingsway Regional is comprised of the Borough of Swedesboro and the Townships of South Harrison, East Greenwich and Woolwich. Though not part of the District, students from Logan Township attend Kingsway Regional High School through a send/receive relationship as paid tuition students.... Percent of students coming from each resident district is as follows: East Greenwich Twp. – 32%, Woolwich Twp. – 33%, South Harrison Twp. – 13%, Swedesboro – 10%, Logan Twp. (High School Only) – 11%"
History, Kingsway Regional School District. Accessed April 13, 2021. "Kingsway opened its doors for the first time on September 5, 1963… When our first Superintendent – Bob Costill – welcomed 675 7th – 12th grade students and 34 teachers to the new Kingsway.... Over the course of the 1963-64 school year members of the senior body, initially angry to have been pulled away from their beloved Swedesboro and Woodstown High Schools, began to embrace the new Kingsway and would become the first 89 seniors to walk across this auditorium stage (what is now Eitel Theater) to receive their high school diploma that following June."
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"Kingsway School Will Open Sept. 5", Courier-Post, August 20, 1963. Accessed April 13, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "The $1,750,000 Kingsway Regional Junior-Senior High School will open Sept. 5 with an expected enrollment of 670 pupils, Robert S. Costill, superintendent, said. With a tradition and history passed on from the 40-year-old Swedesboro High School, which it replaces, Kingsway will start operations with sophomore, junior and senior classes inherited from Swedesboro High School. Children from Swedesboro, Woolwich, East Greenwich, South Harrison and Logan Townships will attend the new facility during the 1963-64 term, Costill said."
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Forand, Rebecca. "Kingsway districts may see change", Gloucester County Times, April 7, 2011. Accessed December 9, 2014. "A study is being planned to evaluate the fiscal feasibility of the regionalization of the school districts associated with the Kingsway Regional district, and the impact of continuing or severing the current relationship the district has with Logan Township. Woolwich township, Swedesboro, East Greenwich Township and South Harrison Township all currently feed their elementary students to the Kingsway Regional district for middle and high school, with Logan Township sending students to the high school on a tuition basis. The study will address the fiscal feasibility of regionalizing Kingsway, East Greenwich, South Harrison and Swedesboro-Woolwich."
Forand, Rebecca. "Swedesboro High School's last graduating class holds 50 year class reunion", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, June 7, 2013. Accessed April 28, 2023. "Swedesboro High School was open from 1923 until 1963 and educated students from the Swedesboro-Woolwich area, as well as those who were sent from Logan and East Greenwich townships. Now, kids from those areas, as well as those from South Harrison, meet at Kingsway High School, where the most recent graduating class was one of more than 340. Swedesboro’s final graduating class was one of 68 students who studied things like agriculture alongside their regular curriculum to fit in with the farming community they lived in."
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Kingsway Regional School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed January 26, 2020. "Kingsway is situated in a predominately rural/suburban area, with more than 20,000 people residing within its 52 square mile border. The District includes the Borough of Swedesboro and the Townships of South Harrison, East Greenwich, and Woolwich. Though not part of the District, students from Logan Township attend Kingsway High School through a send/receive relationship as paid tuition students."
Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the Swedesboro-Woolwich Consolidated School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2020. Accessed April 13, 2021. "The Swedesboro-Woolwich Consolidated School District is a Type II District located in the County of Gloucester, State of New Jersey. As a Type II District, the School District functions, independently through a Board of Education. The Board is comprised of nine members elected to three-year terms. The purpose of the District is to educate students in grades PreK-6."
Swedesboro-Woolwich Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Swedesboro-Woolwich School District. Accessed March 21, 2022. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre-Kindergarten through six in the Swedesboro-Woolwich School District. Composition: The Swedesboro-Woolwich School District is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of the Borough of Swedesboro and the Township of Woolwich."
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School Locations, Swedesboro-Woolwich School District. Accessed March 21, 2022.
