The new Woodbury Friends School began as a simple elementary school, but it grew slowly over the next decade, adding grades year after year.  By the late 1960s, Woodbury Friends School had grown to over 200 students and included classes from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. Those who attended the Woodbury Friends School in the late […]

Several Quaker elementary schools had existed in southern New Jersey in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including two in what would become present-day Gloucester County, namely the “Little Red Schoolhouse” under the care of Mickleton Meeting and a School under the care of Woodbury Monthly Meeting sometimes called the “Deptford Free-School Institute.”  Eventually, these […]

The reason that Mullica Hill Quakers felt comfortable letting the care of a school close was the growth of public education in the United States.  Quakers had long been powerful advocates of free public education, and they remain so in the present. For many years, local Quakers in Mullica Hill and the surrounding towns saw […]