Editing Camden, New Jersey (section)

==Education==
===Public schools===
{{Main|Camden City School District}}

Camden's public schools are operated by the [[Camden City School District]]. The district is one of 31 former [[Abbott district]]s statewide that were established pursuant to the decision by the [[New Jersey Supreme Court]] in ''Abbott v. Burke''<ref>[https://www.njsda.gov/About/WhatWeDo#History What We Do: History], [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]]. Accessed March 1, 2022. "In 1998, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in the ''Abbott v. Burke'' case that the State must provide 100 percent funding for all school renovation and construction projects in special-needs school districts. According to the Court, aging, unsafe and overcrowded buildings prevented children from receiving the "thorough and efficient" education required under the New Jersey Constitution.... Full funding for approved projects was authorized for the 31 special-needs districts, known as 'Abbott Districts'."</ref> which are now referred to as "SDA Districts" based on the requirement for the state to cover all costs for school building and renovation projects in these districts under the supervision of the [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]].<ref>[https://www.njsda.gov/About/WhatWeDo What We Do], [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]]. Accessed March 1, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.njsda.gov/Content/FactSheets/31_SDA_Districts.pdf SDA Districts], [[New Jersey Schools Development Authority]]. Accessed March 1, 2022.</ref> As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of 19 schools, had an enrollment of 7,553 students and 668.0 classroom teachers (on an [[full-time equivalent|FTE]] basis), for a [[student–teacher ratio]] of 11.3:1.<ref name="NCES">[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3402640&DistrictID=3402640 District information for Camden City School District], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed February 15, 2022.</ref>

High schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the [[National Center for Education Statistics]]<ref>[https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3402640 School Data for the Camden City Public Schools], [[National Center for Education Statistics]]. Accessed December 9, 2016.</ref>) are 
[[Brimm Medical Arts High School]]<ref>[https://camdencityschools.org/brimm/ Brimm Medical Arts High School], Camden City School District. Accessed November 10, 2022.</ref> (175; 9–12), 
[[MetEast High School|Camden Big Picture Learning Academy]]<ref>[https://camdencityschools.org/bpla/ Camden Big Picture Learning Academy], Camden City School District. Accessed November 10, 2022.</ref> (196; 6–12), 
[[Camden High School (New Jersey)|Camden High School]]<ref>[http://chs.camden.k12.nj.us/ Camden High School], Camden City School District. Accessed November 10, 2022.</ref> (347; 9–12), 
[[Creative Arts Academy]]<ref>[https://camdencityschools.org/creative-arts/ Creative Arts Morgan Village Academy], Camden City School District. Accessed November 10, 2022.</ref> (290; 6–12), 
[[Eastside High School (Camden, New Jersey)|Eastside High School]]<ref>[https://camdencityschools.org/eastsidehs/ Eastside High School], Camden City School District. Accessed June 2, 2024.</ref> (784; 9–12) and 
Pride Academy<ref>[https://camdencityschools.org/pride/ Pride Academy], Camden City School District. Accessed November 10, 2022.</ref> (63; 6–12).<ref>[https://camdencityschools.org/school-directory/ School Directory], Camden City School District. Accessed November 10, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/07/0680 School Performance Reports for the Camden City School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed March 31, 2024.</ref><ref>[https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/0680 New Jersey School Directory for the Camden City School District], [[New Jersey Department of Education]]. Accessed February 1, 2024.</ref>

=== Charter and renaissance schools ===
[[File:KIPP Cooper Norcross Lanning Square Primary and MIddle School.jpg|thumb|KIPP Cooper Norcross Lanning Square Primary and Middle School]]
In 2012, The Urban Hope Act was signed into law, allowing renaissance schools to open in Trenton, Newark, and Camden. The renaissance schools, run by charter companies, differed from charter schools, as they enrolled students based on the surrounding neighborhood, similar to the city school district. This makes renaissance schools a hybrid of charter and public schools. This is the act that allowed [[KIPP (organization)|Knowledge Is Power Program]] (KIPP), Uncommon Schools, and Mastery Schools to open in the city.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mooney |first=John |date=September 30, 2014 |title=EXPLAINER: GETTING INSIDE THE URBAN HOPE ACT – AND 'RENAISSANCE SCHOOLS' |url=https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/09/29/explainer-getting-inside-the-urban-hope-act-and-renaissance-schools/ |website=NJ Spotlight}}</ref>

Under the renaissance charter school proposal, the Henry L. Bonsall Family School became Uncommon Schools Camden Prep Mt. Ephraim Campus, East Camden Middle School has become part of Mastery Charter Schools, Francis X. Mc Graw Elementary School and Rafael Cordero Molina Elementary School have become part of the Mastery charter network. The J.G Whittier Family school has become part of the KIPP Public Charter Schools as KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy.
Students were given the option to stay with the school under their transition or seek other alternatives.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Laday |first=Jason |date=March 27, 2015 |title=Camden closing 1 school, transferring 4 to charters |url=https://www.nj.com/camden/2015/03/camden_closing_one_school_transferring_four_to_cha.html |website=The Star-Ledger}}</ref>

In the 2013–14 school year, Camden city proposed a budget of $72&nbsp;million to allot to charter schools in the city. In previous years, Camden city charter schools have used $52&nbsp;million and $66&nbsp;million in the 2012–2013 and 2013–2014 school years, respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tornoe |first=Rob |date=April 4, 2014 |title=Declining enrollment in Camden schools result of charter growth |url=https://whyy.org/articles/declining-enrollment-in-camden-schools-result-of-charter-growth/ |access-date=April 13, 2019 |publisher=WHYY}}</ref>

March 9, 2015, marked the first year of the new Camden Charter Schools open enrollment. Mastery and Uncommon charter schools did not meet enrollment projections for their first year of operation by 15% and 21%, according to Education Law Center.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Education Law Center {{!}} New Camden Charters: 1st Year Enrollments Raise Red Flags |url=http://www.edlawcenter.org/news/archives/other-issues/new-camden-charters-1st-year-enrollments-raise-red-flags.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201083743/http://www.edlawcenter.org/news/archives/other-issues/new-camden-charters-1st-year-enrollments-raise-red-flags.html |archive-date=December 1, 2016 |access-date=November 2, 2016 |website=www.edlawcenter.org}}</ref>

In October 2016, Governor Chris Christie, Camden Mayor Dana L. Redd, Camden Public Schools Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard, and state and local representatives announced a historical $133&nbsp;million investment of a new Camden High School Project.<ref>{{Cite web |last=mgryczon |title=Office of the Governor {{!}} Newsroom |url=http://www.state.nj.us/governor/news/news/552016/approved/20161005a.html |access-date=November 2, 2016 |website=www.state.nj.us}}</ref> The new school is planned to be ready for student occupancy in 2021. It would have 9th and 12th grade.

As of 2019, there are 3,850 Camden students enrolled in one of the city's renaissance schools, with 4,350 Camden students are enrolled one of the city's charter schools.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CCSD: FACTS & FIGURES |url=http://camdencity.ss12.sharpschool.com/divisions/superintendent_s_office/c_c_s_d__facts___figures |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410140838/http://camdencity.ss12.sharpschool.com/divisions/superintendent_s_office/c_c_s_d__facts___figures |archive-date=April 10, 2019 |access-date=April 10, 2019 |website=Camden County School District}}</ref> Combined, these students make up approximately 55% of the 15,000 students in Camden.

==== Charter schools ====
* Camden's Promise Charter School
* Environment Community Opportunity (ECO) Charter School
* Freedom Prep Charter School
* Hope Community Charter School
*[[LEAP Academy University Charter School]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charter Schools Directory |url=https://homeroom5.doe.state.nj.us/directory/charter.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401005212/https://homeroom5.doe.state.nj.us/directory/charter.php |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |website=State of New Jersey Department of Education}}</ref>

==== Renaissance schools ====
*[[Uncommon Schools]] Camden Prep
* KIPP Cooper Norcross
** Lanning Square Primary School
** Lanning Square Middle School
** Whittier Middle School
*[[Mastery Charter Schools|Mastery Schools]] of Camden
** Cramer Hill Elementary
** Molina Lower Elementary
** Molina Upper Elementary
** East Camden Middle
** Mastery High School of Camden
** McGraw Elementary<ref>{{Cite web |title=Renaissance Schools |url=https://www.state.nj.us/education/renaissance/ar/camden/18/ |website=State of New Jersey Department of Education}}</ref>

===Private education===
Holy Name School,<ref>[https://www.cspholyname.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=2070803&type=d&pREC_ID=2128901 About], Holy Name School. Accessed February 20, 2023.</ref> Sacred Heart Grade School,<ref>[https://sacredheartschoolcamden.org/about/ Who We Are], Sacred Heart School. Accessed February 20, 2023.</ref> and St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral School (founded in 1894)<ref>[https://www.cspstjoepro.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=2071290&type=d&pREC_ID=2129094 History and Mission], St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral School. Accessed February 20, 2023."Classes at St. Joseph School began in a home in 1894 and was staffed by the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse for the 40 families in the new parish in East Camden."</ref> are K–8 elementary schools operating under the auspices of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden]].<ref>[https://southjerseycatholicschools.org/catholic-schools-in-south-jersey/ Schools], South Jersey Catholic Schools. Accessed February 20, 2023.</ref> They operate as four of the five schools in the Catholic Partnership Schools, a post-parochial model of Urban Catholic Education.<ref>[http://www.catholicpartnershipschools.org/our-schools/ Our Schools] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112103407/http://www.catholicpartnershipschools.org/our-schools/|date=January 12, 2016}}, Catholic Partnership Schools.</ref>

===Higher education===
[[File:Ru-camden-campus.jpg|thumb|[[Rutgers University–Camden]] and the [[Philadelphia]] skyline (background)]]
The University District, adjacent to the downtown, is home to the following institutions:

* [[Camden County College]] – one of three main campuses; the college first came to the city in 1969 and constructed a campus building in Camden in 1991.<ref>[http://www.camdencc.edu/about/index.cfm About Us], [[Camden County College]]. Accessed October 22, 2013. "The College's presence in the City of Camden began in 1969, when a diploma-completion program was begun in borrowed space to help students prepare to pass their GED test so they could begin college-level courses on the Blackwood Campus that fall. In 1991, a five-story Camden City Campus building – now called College Hall – provided the college's first permanent home in the city. The eight-story academic, retail and parking facility known as the Camden Technology Center was added in 2004 as one of the first projects completed under the Camden Municipal Rehabilitation and Economic Recovery Act."</ref>
* [[Rowan University|Rowan University at Camden]], [[satellite campus]] – the Camden campus began with a program for teacher preparation in 1969 and expanded with standard college courses the following year and a full-time day program in 1980.<ref>[http://www.rowan.edu/camden/about/index.cfm Campus History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202113558/http://www.rowan.edu/camden/about/index.cfm|date=February 2, 2015}}, Rowan University at Camden. Accessed October 22, 2013. "In the fall of 1969, Glassboro State College opened the Camden Urban Center at 534 Cooper Street."</ref>
* [[Cooper Medical School of Rowan University]] (opened 2012)<ref>Minters, Brooke. {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120708001925/http://articles.philly.com/2010-06-10/news/24964495_1_commonwealth-medical-college-primary-care-students "New medical dean named at Rowan University in Camden"]}}, ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', June 10, 2010. Accessed July 3, 2011. "Paul Katz, who recently helped start a medical school in Scranton, was tapped Wednesday to be founding dean of another medical start-up: the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden."</ref>
* [[Rutgers University–Camden]] – the Camden campus, one of three main sites in the university system, began as South Jersey Law School and the College of South Jersey in the 1920s and was merged into Rutgers in 1950.<ref>[http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/page/campus-history Campus History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005005738/http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/page/campus-history|date=October 5, 2013}}, [[Rutgers University–Camden]]. Accessed October 13, 2015.</ref>
** Camden College of Arts & Sciences<ref>[https://fas.camden.rutgers.edu/academics/schools/college-of-arts-and-sciences/ College of Arts and Sciences], [[Rutgers University–Camden]]. Accessed October 13, 2015.</ref>
** School of Business – Camden<ref>[http://business.camden.rutgers.edu/about/fastfacts/ RSBC Fast Facts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920022339/http://business.camden.rutgers.edu/about/fastfacts/|date=September 20, 2015}}, Rutgers School of Business Camden. Accessed October 13, 2015.</ref>
** [[Rutgers School of Law-Camden]]<ref>[https://camlaw.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers-law About Rutgers Law], [[Rutgers School of Law-Camden]]. Accessed October 22, 2013.</ref>
* [[University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey]] (UMDNJ)
** Affiliated with [[Cooper University Hospital]]
* [[Coriell Institute for Medical Research]]<ref>[https://www.coriell.org/about/our-history Our History], [[Coriell Institute for Medical Research]]. Accessed October 13, 2015.</ref>
** Affiliated with Cooper University Hospital
** Affiliated with [[Rowan University]]
** Affiliated with University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

===Libraries===
The city was once home to two [[List of Carnegie libraries in New Jersey|Carnegie libraries]], the [[Camden Free Public Library Main Building|Main Building]]<ref name="library">[http://www.dvrbs.com/camden/CamdenNJ-CarnegieLibrary.htm Camden, New Jersey Carnegie Library], DVRBS.com. Accessed October 13, 2015.</ref> and the [[Cooper Library in Johnson Park]].<ref>[http://johnson-park.camden.rutgers.edu/library.htm Cooper Branch Library at Johnson Park], Johnson Park Restoration. Accessed October 13, 2015.</ref> The city's once extensive library system, beleaguered by financial difficulties, threatened to close at the end of 2010, but was incorporated into the county system.<ref>Katz, Matt. {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120707155020/http://articles.philly.com/2010-08-06/news/24972581_1_library-board-three-libraries-library-book "Camden preparing to close its libraries, destroy books"]}}, ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', August 6, 2010. Accessed October 13, 2015. "Camden is preparing to permanently shut its library system by the end of the year, potentially leaving residents of the impoverished city among the few in the United States unable to borrow a library book free. At an emotional but sparsely attended meeting of the library board Thursday, its president, Martin McKernan, said the city's three libraries cannot stay open past Dec. 31 because of severe budget cuts by Mayor Dana L. Redd."</ref><ref>Holt, Bob. [http://camdencountydems.com/content/camden-library-system-given-hope-mayor's-plan "Camden library system given hope by mayor's plan"]{{Dead link|date=December 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}, NJ Newsroom, August 10, 2010. Accessed October 13, 2015. "Officials in New Jersey have apparently found a way to save Camden's public library system in whole or at least part. Mayor Dana Redd said Monday that city officials will look to join the county library system."</ref> The [[South Jersey Gas, Electric and Traction Company Office Building|main branch]] closed in February 2011,<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/main_branch_of_camden_public_l.html "Main branch of Camden public library set to close"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', February 10, 2011. Accessed October 13, 2015. "The main branch of the Camden Free Public Library, in a high-ceilinged former bank building, was a victim of the same budget crisis that resulted in layoffs last month of nearly 400 city government employees, including nearly half the police department and one-third of the firefighters."</ref> and was later reopened by the county in the bottom floor of the Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers University.<ref>[http://www.camdencountylibrary.org/camden-county-library-branch-rutgers Camden County Library Branch at Rutgers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818063223/http://www.camdencountylibrary.org/camden-county-library-branch-rutgers|date=August 18, 2016}}, Camden County Library System. Accessed October 13, 2015.</ref>

Camden also has three [[academic libraries]]; The [[Paul Robeson]] Library at Rutgers University-Camden serves Rutgers undergraduate and graduate students, as well as students from the Camden campuses of Camden County College and Rowan University. Rutgers Law School has a [[law library]] and Cooper Medical School at Rowan has a medical library.