District policy · 2026-2027
Kingsway Regional School District
Gloucester County · Regional high school district · Grades 7-12
Last verified · policy year 2026-2027
Read this entry with one caveat
Kingsway's Board Policy 5516 in its Strauss Esmay manual is still the older “Use of Electronic Communications and Recording Devices” policy, last revised 26 June 2025, before this statute took effect. The 2026-2027 rules are set out in the superintendent's letter cited here, not in that policy.
Period by period
2 of 6 not yet verifiedEach row is either something this district’s own document says, or an explicit admission that we have not found it. We never infer one period from another. Passing time, lunch and study hall, the three periods the statute never mentions, are marked with an amber rule.Q8
- Class time
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.Instructional time. Restricted under the statute itself.
- Passing timeNot named in the statute
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.Between classes. NJDOE guidance restricts it; the statute never mentions it.
- LunchNot named in the statute
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.On-campus lunch. NJDOE guidance restricts it; the statute never mentions it.
- Study hallNot named in the statute
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.Study hall. NJDOE guidance restricts it; the statute never mentions it.
- School bus
- Not yet verified
- We have not found a source that states this district's rule for this period. We have not guessed one.State guidance permits phones on buses unless the district goes further. A district rule here is stricter than the state floor.
- Before and after school
- Not yet verified
- We have not found a source that states this district's rule for this period. We have not guessed one.State guidance permits phones outside the school day unless the district goes further.
How phones are stored
A local choice, not a state oneLocker or collected bin
Phones are left in a hall locker or handed in to a central bin.
Devices go in the student's district-issued locker for the whole day. High school students on an approved alternative schedule use a lockbox in the High School Main Office.
What happens if the rule is broken
First offence: two administrative lunch detentions, device confiscated and returned at the end of the day. Second: two after-school detentions, parent or guardian must collect the device between 2:30 and 4:00 p.m. Third: one in-school suspension, parent collection, and an individualised plan developed with the student and family to prevent further violations.
Asking for an exception
The statute names what a policy must accommodateWe have not found this district’s exception procedure. Not yet verified
The statute itself names circumstances a policy must accommodate, including an IEP, a 504 plan, a documented health plan, translation needs, certain caregiving responsibilities, and emergencies.s.2.b(3)-(5)
In the district’s own words
Quoted exactly, not summarisedOur expectation is straightforward: Whenever possible, students are encouraged to leave their personal internet-enabled devices at home. If a student chooses to bring one to school, the device must remain powered off and secured in the student's district-issued locker throughout the school day.
Kingsway Regional School District · read · Open the document
Everything else on this page is our reading of Kingsway Regional School District’s policy. This is the policy. We quote rather than paraphrase so you can check us against the document instead of taking our word for what it says.
Sources
1 primary, 0 corroboratingNothing on this page can be published without at least one primary source attached to it. That is enforced by the database, not by a habit.
District decisionPrimary source
Important Back-to-School Updates Regarding Personal Internet-Enabled Devices and Student Attendance
Kingsway Regional School District · August 13, 2026 (revised) · checked
Following a second or third offense, a parent or guardian will be required to retrieve the device from school between 2:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.