The school district was established in 1938, after a referendum in which
Chesilhurst,
Clementon,
Lindenwold,
Pine Hill and
Winslow Township voted to join and both
Berlin Township and
Waterford Township opted out.
Lower Camden County Regional High School opened in October 1939, four months earlier than expected, with an enrollment of 700 students, after having been constructed at a cost of $575,000 (equivalent to $12.6 million in 2023), of which $258,000 was covered by a grant from the
Public Works Administration. Prior to the school's opening, about a third of students had attended
Hammonton High School.[2] It served students from up to ten municipalities at one point. The population soon began to grow, however, and
Edgewood Regional High School (now
Winslow Township High School) was founded in Winslow Township. The original 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.
Following the dissolution of the district, students from Waterford Township began attending
Hammonton High School as part of a
sending/receiving relationship with the
Hammonton Public Schools.[3]Overbrook High School, part of the
Pine Hill Schools, serves students from Pine Hill, with Berlin Township and Clementon participating in sending / receiving relationships.
Lindenwold High School opened in September 2001 to serve students from the borough[4]
^Mark, Jason.
"Students arrive for the first day of Spirits high at Hammonton High opening", Courier-Post, September 6, 2002. Accessed April 3, 2022, via
Newspapers.com. "Kopakowski's 'new car' is a 196,000-square-foot, $33 million facility on 116 acres of farmland on the White Horse Pike. The school is home to more than 1,200 students from Hammonton and Waterford in Camden County. After the dissolution of the Lower Camden County School District last year, Waterford was stuck with tough decisions: send its students to Winslow Township High School (formerly Edgewood) or build a high school of its own. Or it could join Hammonton in Atlantic County and contribute to the building of the new school, which is what the township chose."
^Colon, Vanessa.
"New year, new school for Lindenwold students", Courier-Post, September 11, 2001. Accessed April 13, 2022, via
Newspapers.com. "At 7:30 a.m. Monday, 630 students at the newly constructed Lindenwold High School were in their homeroom classes shifting through school maps. Like many of the 5,500 former pupils in the disbanded Lower Camden County Regional School District, these students had to find their way around a new school."