District policy · 2026-2027
Phillipsburg School District
Warren County · K-12 district
Last verified · policy year 2026-2027 · policy 5516 · adopted November 10, 2008
Read this entry with one caveat
Phillipsburg's Regulation 5516 is not publicly readable on the district's policy portal, and that regulation is where the storage method, the discipline ladder and the bus and after-school rules live. Everything recorded here comes from the Policy alone, which is why so much of this row is unverified.
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 oneWe have not found a source that states how this district stores devices during the day.
The policy defers the storage system to Regulation 5516, which is not published on the district's public policy portal.
What happens if the rule is broken
We have not found this district’s stated consequences. Not yet verified
Asking for an exception
The statute names what a policy must accommodateThe statutory exception list applies. A parent submits a written request with supporting documentation to the Superintendent or designee, who answers within five school days.
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 summarised“Bell-to-bell” means the timeframe when the bell rings at the start of the school day until the dismissal bell rings at the end of the academic day. Bell-to-bell includes time in between class periods and lunch.
Phillipsburg Board of Education · read · Open the document
Everything else on this page is our reading of Phillipsburg 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.
The highlighted words are the district’s, not ours. They are the periods the statute never names, and this district wrote one of them into its own rule.s.2.b(2)
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
Policy 5516: Student Use of Internet-Enabled Devices
Phillipsburg Board of Education · Revised August 24, 2026 · checked
The Board of Education prohibits student use of internet-enabled devices on school grounds during the school day in accordance with N.J.S.A. 18A:36-40b.