Landis School

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Landis Intermediate School
Location
Landis School
61 West Landis Avenue
Vineland, NJ 08360
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Type Middle school
MottoLancers Take Charge!
Established1928 (as Vineland High School)
School district Vineland Public Schools
PrincipalNo principal
Faculty0
GradesNo longer teaching
Enrollment0
Color(s)Red, Black
Nickname Landis
Website School website
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Landis School (New Jersey)
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Landis School (the United States)
Location61 West Landis Avenue
Vineland, New Jersey
Coordinates 39°29′10″N75°02′16″W / 39.4860°N 75.0378°W / 39.4860; -75.0378 Coordinates: 39°29′10″N75°02′16″W / 39.4860°N 75.0378°W / 39.4860; -75.0378
Area4.4 acres (1.8 ha)
Built1927
ArchitectJ.O. Betelle,
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No. 95000181 [1]
NJRHP No.2809 [2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 3, 1995
Designated NJRHPJanuary 24, 1995

Landis Intermediate School used to be a public middle school in Vineland, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Vineland Public Schools. Its last year was 2017-2018. The only grades that were held those years were 7th and 8th. It opened as Vineland High School in 1928 and was designed by James Oscar Betelle. As the population of Vineland grew and Vineland High School got overcrowded, it became necessary to construct a new high school. With the construction of Vineland Senior High School South in 1963 (and the further construction of Vineland Senior High School North in 1976) Vineland High School got degraded to Landis Intermediate School.

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As of the 2008-09 school year, the school had an enrollment of 503 students and 48.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 10.3. [3]

Listed as the Vineland High School, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 3, 1995, for its significance in architecture and eduction. [4]

Administration

Members of the school's administration are: [5]

Controversy surrounding Principal Kohaut

In March, 2009 Assistant Principal Richard Panas charged that Principal Donald Kohaut had been covering up the number of violent incidents at the school, claiming that at least 80 incidents of violence had not been reported to the state as required by state law. The New Jersey State Department of Education launched a probe into the conditions at the school due to Panas' claims. The probe discovered that while school officials did not properly report the incidents, the failure to do so was due to a lack of communication and was not deliberate. [6] In May, 2009 Kohaut came under fire for physically removing two pages containing the poem Diary Of An Abusive Stepfather from the book Paint Me Like I Am after a student's parent complained. Kohaut answered criticism about his vandalizing the book instead of just removing it by saying that he wanted students to still be able to read the other poems included in the book. [7]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System  (#95000181)". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Cumberland County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. September 29, 2022. p. 6.
  3. Landis Intermediate School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 6, 2011.
  4. Brandt, W. Jane (June 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Vineland High School". National Park Service. With accompanying 17 photos
  5. Administration Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine , Landis Intermediate School. Accessed April 6, 2011.
  6. "State faults V'land school on violence reporting" [ permanent dead link ], The Daily Journal (New Jersey) , September 10, 2009.
  7. "Vineland Principal Censors Book", The Daily Journal (New Jersey) , May 18, 2009.