District Helping Gloucester Township Students Get Vaccinated

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — More than 80 percent of families in the Black Horse Pike Regional School District are interested in getting their students vaccinated against the coronavirus, district officials said this week.

“At the close of last week, we had 406 respondents who answered our parent survey,” Black Horse Pike Superintendent of Schools Brian Repici said in a statement. “As a result, 84 percent of respondents indicated that their children would participate in getting vaccinated at our schools if it were made available.”

A survey had been sent out to the community shortly after Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine became available to students ages 16-and-up. Read more here: COVID-19 Vaccine Access Possible For Gloucester Twp. High Schools

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“I contacted the County Education Office and provided our results in hopes of getting them to assist us in a partnership,” Repici said.

The county's COVID-19 Vaccination site at Camden County College, 200 College Drive in the Blackwood section of the township, doesn't currently administer the Pfizer vaccine.

However, Repici did notify the community when 100 Pfizer vaccinations became available at the Walgreen store in Glendora and Lindenwold last week. He said he is also exploring a potential partnership with Inspira Health Network.

The Black Horse Pike Regional School District serves students in Gloucester Township, Bellmawr and Runnemede. The schools include Highland, Timber Creek and Triton regional high schools.