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428:. "Next month, they will attend South Jersey's first charter school Project LEAP Academy in Camden.... Project LEAP, an idea hatched by Rutgers-Camden professor Gloria Bonilla-Santiago back in 1994, is scheduled to open Sept. 15. It's one of only 16 state-approved charter schools, and the only one in the tri-county area."
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318:. The school is not affiliated with a league or conference. With 350 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range.
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