Eastside High Students This Fall Will Go to Cramer School

CAMDEN – Eastside High School students and faculty will relocate to the Cramer School beginning this fall as the old high school is demolished and a $105 million school is built in its place.

The relocated classes – held at Cramer School, 2800 Mickle Street, less than a half-mile from the high school – will remain at the “swing school” until the new school opens in the fall of 2029, the City School District announced Tuesday afternoon.

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Cramer, which last was an elementary school, was shut down at the end of the school year in 2021.

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Eastside High School will be demolished, and construction will begin in spring 2025, the district reported.

Initial design discussions will go through this summer and district and community feedback on the designs will be solicited in winter 2024 and spring 2025.

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“We acknowledge there may be growing pains during this building phase, but our resilient and dedicated students and staff will help ease any disruption,” district Superintendent Katrina T. McCombs said in a statement. “We’re not just building a school; we’re building a stronger, more equitable future.”

Crews have already begun to prepare Cramer School, which the district selected after evaluating its open space. “Efforts are underway to prepare the site to meet the specific needs of Camden’s high school community during this transition period,” according to the district announcement.

The present Eastside High School building on Federal Street opened as Woodrow Wilson Junior High in 1930 and became Woodrow Wilson High School in 1933.

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