Hi-nella Students Told To Stay Put

By Shawna McCoy, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
Posted: April 23, 1996

Hi-Nella students will stay at Collingswood High School this fall rather than move to Sterling Regional High School.

For more than 40 years, Hi-Nella, a town of a little more than 1,000 people, has sent students from kindergarten through ninth grade to the Oaklyn School District and from grades 10 through 12 to Collingswood.

Parents and others have been spearheading a drive to send Hi-Nella high schoolers to much closer Sterling Regional High, which approved a ``sending agreement'' with the Hi-Nella School District last year.

The Collingswood Board of Education, however, voted last night not to release the Hi-Nella School District from an agreement that requires them to send their high school students to Collingswood during the 1996-97 school year on a tuition basis.

The Collingswood board also tabled a motion that would have allowed the Hi-Nella high schoolers to start withdrawing from Collingswood High during the 1997-98 school year.

Collingswood school board President Lee Troutman said the 1997-98 withdrawal would not be considered until after a special meeting, which has yet to be scheduled, between representatives of the Hi-Nella, Oaklyn, Collingswood and Woodlynne School Districts, all of which send students to Collingswood High.

Collingswood Superintendent James Bathurst estimated that 17 students from Hi-Nella would attend the high school next year at a cost of $8,500 per student. Fifteen Hi-Nella students currently attend the school, seven miles up the White Horse Pike from the little borough.

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