District policy · 2026-2027
Woodbridge Township School District
Middlesex County · K-12 district · Grades 9-12
Last verified · policy year 2026-2027
Read this entry with one caveat
Verified from the principal's letter for John F. Kennedy Memorial High School, one school in the district. We do not claim these details hold at Woodbridge's other schools.
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.
Devices must be “silenced and securely stored”, but the letter does not say where. A cell phone pouch appears only as a consequence from the third incident onward, not as the baseline.
What happens if the rule is broken
First: warning, documented in Genesis. Second: parent contact and the device secured in the main office. Third: administrative parent contact and a cell phone pouch for five school days. Fourth: one day in an alternate class setting and a pouch for ten school days. Fifth and beyond: one to two days in an alternate class setting, a mandatory parent conference, and a pouch for twenty or more school days.
Asking for an exception
The statute names what a policy must accommodateNo waiver process is described. In an urgent situation families call the main office; students who need to contact home are directed to their guidance counsellor and call from the counsellor's phone.
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 summarisedBeginning this school year, John F. Kennedy Memorial High School will enforce a bell-to-bell prohibition on the use of cell phones and other personal electronic devices, from the start of the school day through dismissal.
John F. Kennedy Memorial High School, Woodbridge Township School District · read · Open the document
Everything else on this page is our reading of Woodbridge Township 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
Bell to Bell Cell Phone Policy (2026-2027)
John F. Kennedy Memorial High School, Woodbridge Township School District · August 27, 2026 · checked
Students are expected to have their devices silenced and securely stored and may not wear earbuds, headsets, or headphones during the school day.