Haddonfield Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Haddonfield, in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Haddonfield Public Schools.
As of the 2024–25 school year, the school had an enrollment of 827 students and 81.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.2:1. There were 17 students (2.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 4 (0.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Haddonfield Memorial High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 15, 2026.
History Completed at a cost of $500,000 (equivalent to $ million in ), ceremonies were held in October 1927 to dedicate the building "to the memory of Haddonfield residents killed in the World War.""Noted Educators Speakers at Dedication of New Haddonfield High School; Legion Chaplain Sees Education As Peace Force; Dr. Elliott Visions Future High School as People's College; Penniman Is Speaker", The Morning Post, October 15, 1927. Accessed April 3, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "If the dream of international peace ever becomes a reality it will be through the medium of education, declared Rev. Gill-Robb Wilson, of Trenton, national chaplain of the American Legion. in an address last night at the dedicatory exercise of the new $500,000 Memorial High School of Haddonfield. The school is dedicated to the memory of Haddonfield residents killed in the World War."Timeline of Haddonfield History, Historical Society of Hddonfield. Accessed June 23, 2026. "1927 – The new Haddonfield Memorial High School opened, named in honor of those who served in World War I." Four residents died in the war.Haddonfield War Memorial , DVRBS.com. Accessed December 4, 2023.
In May 1954, with enrollment exceeding the school's target of 1,000, the Haddonfield district notified the Delaware Township School District (since renamed as the Cherry Hill Public Schools) that its students would no longer be taken after June 1956, having already told the Gloucester Township Public Schools a year earlier that its students would no longer be accepted after June 1955. While there were 420 Haddonfield students, there were a total of 760 students as part of sending/receiving relationships, including about 270 from Gloucester Township, 200 from Delaware Township (now Cherry Hill), 90 from Haddon Township, 90 from Voorhees Township, 75 from Evesham Township, 20 from Gibbsboro and smaller numbers from Lawnside and Woodlynne."Haddonfield High To Drop Pupils of Delaware Twp.", Courier-Post, May 21, 1954. Accessed March 13, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Delaware Township High School, pupils will not be accepted in Haddonfield Memorial High School after June, 1956.... Reynolds said the first step was taken last spring when Gloucester Township was notified Haddonfield would not receive its high school pupils after June, 1955. Reynolds said 761 pupils now attending Haddonfield Memorial High School are from sending districts, as compared to 423 from Haddonfield.... Reynolds produced a table he said represents the breakdown of sending pupils in the high school at present. Listed are: Delaware Township, 205; Evesham Township, 75; Gibbsboro, 20; Gloucester, 272; Haddon Township, 90; Lawnside, 2; Voorhees Township, 89; Woodlynne, 1; and private, 7."
Students from Gibbsboro and Voorhees Township, New Jersey had attended the district's high school as part of sending agreements with the Gibbsboro School District and the Voorhees Township Public Schools until Eastern Regional High School opened in September 1965."$1.3 Million in Pacts Given For Voorhees Twp. School", Courier-Post, July 29, 1964. Accessed March 23, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The regional district includes Gibbsboro, Berlin Borough and Voorhees Township. At present, high school pupils from Gibbsboro and Voorhees Township attend classes at Haddonfield and Collingswood High Schools while Berlin pupils attend Edgewood High School."
In 1992, Gwen Florio of the Philadelphia Inquirer described Haddonfield Memorial HS as "pretty, petite, and rich — the "trophy school" of South Jersey districts."Florio, Gwen. "Looking Beyond The School Decision Time To Make Up, Officials Say, After A Decade Of Fussing.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 21, 1992. Clipping from page S1 and from page S6 from Newspapers.com In 1992 Merchantville School District considered severing its send-receive relationship with Pennsauken School District, in which Merchantville sent students to Pennsauken High School, so Merchantville could send them to Haddonfield Memorial High instead. John Ellis, the New Jersey State Commissioner of Education, blocked Merchantville leaving the partnership on the grounds that it would cause more white students to leave Pennsauken High.
Awards, recognition and rankings During the 2004–05 school year, Haddonfield Memorial High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education,"New bottom line for top honor", The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 18, 2004, "Blue Ribbons were also won by Haddonfield Memorial High School in Camden County..."U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 2003 through 2005 (PDF), United States Department of Education. Accessed June 5, 2006. the highest award an American school can receive."CIBA cited as one of the best by Education Department", Journal Inquirer, November 16, 2006. "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10 percent of their state's testing scores over several years or show significant gains in student achievement. It is considered the highest honor a school can achieve.""Viers Mill School Wins Blue Ribbon; School Scored High on Statewide Test", The Washington Post. September 29, 2005 "For their accomplishments, all three schools this month earned the status of Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the U.S. Education Department can bestow upon a school." The school was the 6th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 305 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2018 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.Staff. "The Top New Jersey Public High Schools 2018", New Jersey Monthly, September 4, 2018. Accessed August 20, 2021. The school had been ranked 33rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 11th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 11, 2012. The magazine ranked the school 14th in 2008 out of 316 schools.Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed March 12, 2011. The school was ranked 17th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state."Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 23rd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 13 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (95.7%) and language arts literacy (98.9%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA)., Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 23, 2012. In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 30th in New Jersey and 1,061st nationwide.Mathews, Jay. "The High School Challenge 2011: Haddonfield High School", The Washington Post. Accessed August 5, 2011. In Newsweek's May 22, 2007, issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Haddonfield Memorial High School was listed in 910th place, the 26th-highest ranked school in New Jersey."The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools", Newsweek, May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007. The school was ranked 236th in the nation and 21st in New Jersey on the list of "America's Best High Schools 2012" prepared by The Daily Beast / Newsweek, with rankings based primarily on graduation rate, matriculation rate for college and number of Advanced Placement / International Baccalaureate courses taken per student, with lesser factors based on average scores on the SAT / ACT, average AP/IB scores and the number of AP/IB courses available to students.Staff. "America's Best High Schools 2012" , The Daily Beast / Newsweek, May 20, 2012. Accessed May 23, 2012. In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", The Daily Beast ranked the school 186th in the nation among participating public high schools and 13th overall (seventh of non-magnet schools) in New Jersey.Streib, Lauren. "America's Best High Schools" , The Daily Beast, May 6, 2013. Accessed May 8, 2013. Haddonfield Memorial High School's 1989 Shield was selected as a Silver Crown Yearbook High School award winner in 1990 from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.1990 Scholastic Crown Recipients: Silver Crown Yearbooks High Schools , Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Accessed July 10, 2011.
Athletics The Haddonfield Memorial High School BulldawgsHaddonfield Memorial High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete as a member of the Colonial Conference, which is comprised of public high schools located in Camden and Gloucester counties, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).Schools , Colonial Conference. Accessed September 13, 2022.League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. With 672 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022–24 school years as Group II South for most athletic competition purposes.NJSIAA General Classifications - Public Schools 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2022. The football team competes in the Constitution Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconferenceHaddonfield Bulldawgs, West Jersey Football League. Accessed May 1, 2023.Home Page, West Jersey Football League. Accessed May 1, 2023. "The WJFL is a 94-school super conference that stretches from Princeton to Wildwood encompassing schools from the Colonial Valley Conference, the Burlington County Scholastic League, the Olympic Conference, the Tri-County Conference, the Colonial Conference, and the Cape Atlantic League. The WJFL is made up of sixteen divisions with divisional alignments based on school size, geography and a strength-of-program component." and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 514 to 685 students.NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2024–2026, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated September 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024.
ShopRite Cup The school was recognized as the Group II winner of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association ShopRite Cup in 2005–06. The award recognized the school for achieving co-championship in girls soccer, 1st in boys soccer, a tie for 3rd in girls tennis, 1st in girls cross country, 3rd in boys cross country, a tie for 3rd in girls basketball, 1st in boys basketball, 2nd in girls swimming, 2nd in boys swimming, 3rd in girls indoor relay championships, 1st in boys golf, a tie for 3rd in boys tennis and 3rd in girls outdoor track.Third Annual ShopRite Cup: 2005-2006 Final Standings , New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.