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Willingboro High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Willingboro Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Willingboro Township Public Schools.
As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,272 students and 95.0 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis, for a student-teacher ratio of 13.4. detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3418000&ID=341800001264" target="_blank">Willingboro High School, _National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 12, 2007.
The high school was opened in 1975 as a response to the overcrowded student population at John F. Kennedy, then the only high school in Willingboro, located just down the road on Kennedy Way. For a short time, residents were having a difficult time in deciding what to call the new Willingboro high school; some sought to name the new high school "J.F. Kennedy High School - East" while others debated on naming the school, "Robert F. Kennedy" after the recently-decease Attorney General and senator from Massachusetts and President Kennedy's brother. A vote was taken and it was decided that the only appropriate name would be what the school is called today, "Willingboro Township High School." The school colors are navy blue, scarlet and white - which are the slight opposite of the school's former sister school, J.F.K. (which were scarlet, navy and white). The mascot is the "Chimera", a mythological monster with the head of a lion and body and wings of an eagle, opposite of the former sister school, which was a "Gryphon."


