1967 John F. Kennedy High School Willingboro, New Jersey Gryphon Yearbook

Description: 1967 John F. Kennedy High School Willingboro, New Jersey Gryphon Yearbook 200 Pages Hardcover 9.25” x 12.25” John F. Kennedy High School (Willingboro, New Jersey) John F. Kennedy High School is a defunct public high school in Willingboro Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States that operated from 1962[citation needed] to 1989,[1] as part of the Willingboro Township Public Schools. It operated first as Levittown High School, and was renamed in 1964 following the president's death. John F. Kennedy High School Willingboro Township, New Jersey Public high school Opened 1960 Closed 1989 School district Willingboro Township Public Schools Levittown Junior-Senior High School opened for the 1960-61 school year with approximately 1,000 students in grades 7-12, including students who had been attending either Burlington City High School or Rancocas Valley Regional High School. The plan was for the Junior-Senior High School to become a junior high school once the district opened a standalone high school. Willingboro High School, located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away on Kennedy Way, was opened in 1975 as a response to the overcrowded student population at John F. Kennedy High School, which had just graduated nearly 1000 in a single class. For a short time, residents were having a difficult time in deciding what to call the new Willingboro high school; some sought to name the new high school "J.F. Kennedy High School - East" while others debated on naming the school, "Robert F. Kennedy" after the recently deceased Attorney General and senator from New York and President Kennedy's brother. A vote was taken and it was decided that the only appropriate name would be what the school is called today "Willingboro High School". The two schools were merged at the start of the 1989-90 school year, with all students transferred to Willingboro High School. John F. Kennedy High School was closed and re-purposed as a junior high school. The school was renamed the John F. Kennedy Junior High School and served as a junior high school from 1989 to 1991. After the 1991 school year, the junior high school was moved to the newly re-opened Memorial Junior High School. The building was again re-purposed and utilized as a recreation center and rented space to various organizations. Willingboro Township purchased the site of the defunct high school in late 1998, with plans to turn it into a community center that could include a conference center, theater, indoor tennis courts and other athletic facilities.[5] A new renovation to the Kennedy Center began in 2014. The defunct school is kept alive in a Facebook page and in active reunions and former-student associations.

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