There are few records of the early school years, but some of those early small schools are known.  Two of them, the Haddonfield Friends School and the Bancroft School are still in existence and well attended.

The first doctor in town, John Craig, boarded and schooled boys.  Ebenezer Hopkins, the adopted son of John Estaugh and his wife, Elizabeth (Haddon), attended the Friends School.  William Penn Charter School and Friends Select in Philadelphia were both chartered in 1689, and some of Haddonfield's affluent families sent their children across the river to school.

In 1786 the Haddonfield Friends School became a reality.  John Estaugh Hopkins donated the land for it and he headed the committee of organization.  The little one-room brick schoolhouse still stands but it has been incorporated in the larger building on the corner of Lake Street and Haddon Avenue.

In 1802 the school was taken over by the Haddonfield Monthly Meeting, and a well-qualified teacher, a member of the Society, became the first headmaster of the eighty pupil school.  He was Stephen Munson Day, who eventually married Sara, Thomas Redman's daughter.

Mr Redman was a member of the first committee appointed to superintend the school.  Mr Day's residence on the site of the present Borough Hall, had rooms available for out of town students to rent.  At the railroad crossing and East Main Street the Schlecht’s Bakery building was originally where Amy Eastlack and her sister conducted a boarding school for girls in the 1840's and 50's.  The terms were thirty dollars for twelve weeks.  The building was torn down when East Kings Highway was being modernized.  On the Highway east of Potter Street there was Miss Morris' school.  The Misses Kirby School was on the Main street opposite to the Tanner street dead-end.  Mr Hutchinson conducted classes in two joined together barns that were known as Hendry Hall at 15 Potter street.  It was called the "Barnyard Seminary".

In the early 1900's the Reilly Military Academy was still in existence up on Centre street near Lakeview avenue.  St Agnes Academy, that was founded in 1878, was a school for girls that was in the houses on Lakeview avenue.

The Bancroft School for handicapped children is still on east Kings Highway near the high school.  Miss Fowler's Elementary School was found in many locations around town for years.

These and other private schools combined with the public school system, gave our children adequate facilities for education as the town grew.