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Not Class Time

P.L.2025 c.195 · 2026-2027 policies

What your district
actually decided

The statute sets a floor and NJDOE guidance reads that floor as bell-to-bell. Everything below the floor is a local choice: how phones are stored, what happens when the rule is broken, how an exception is requested. Districts may go stricter than the state. Nothing permits them to go looser.s.2.e

34 districts verified for 2026-2027, out of roughly 600 in New Jersey.

5 went beyond the state minimum, restricting time the state leaves open, such as buses or after-school events.

59 of 204 period rules we have not found a source for. We show those as unverified rather than guessing.

Every district we have read

34 of roughly 600 districts

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Showing all 34 verified districts.

Lunch, passing time and study hall are the three periods marked with an amber rule below, and they are shown because the statute never mentions them. Class time, buses and before or after school are on each district’s own page.

Your district is
probably not here yet.

New Jersey has roughly 600 districts, charters and renaissance projects. We have 34. Every one of them was entered by reading the district’s own policy document, letter to families or board minutes, never by inferring one district’s rule from another’s, and never from a headline. That is slow on purpose.

If you can point us at your district’s policy, we will read it and add it. A link to the document is required, because an entry without one cannot be published: the database refuses it.

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Rows on this page are served from the published policy database, which cannot store a policy without at least one primary source attached.