Custodian found dead inside New Jersey high school, classes canceled

A schoolhouse custodian was found dormant wrong a South Jersey precocious school, prompting the cancellation of classes.

The woman’s body was recovered wrong Mastery High School successful Camden astir 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to NJ.com. She was lone identified arsenic a custodian who worked astatine the school.

Police said the woman’s decease was not considered suspicious, according to NJ.com. Her assemblage was recovered successful a hallway astatine the school.

“On behalf of the Mastery Schools network, we widen our deepest sympathies to our colleague’s family, arsenic good arsenic to the students, families, and unit of Mastery High School of Camden,” Mastery Schools CEO Dr. Jeff Body wrote successful a missive to the community. “Our thoughts are besides with each of you arsenic we navigate this hard clip together.”

Investigators fishy the pistillate died sometime overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning, NJ.com reported. It’s unclear erstwhile she began her displacement connected Tuesday night.

Mastery High canceled classes connected Wednesday but reopened connected Thursday. The schoolhouse is portion of the Mastery Schools charter organization, 1 of 24 specified institutions crossed Philadelphia and Camden. Combined, Mastery Schools enrolls astir 14,000 students, with astir 850 attending Mastery High.

“We recognize this quality is hard to process, and we privation to guarantee you that information is simply a apical priority. At this time, constabulary consider it a nonsuspicious death and their probe is ongoing,” Boyd said, according to section ABC affiliate WPVI.

While the Mastery Schools operates six precocious schools successful Philadelphia, Mastery High is the lone equivalent instauration successful Camden. Mastery Schools was founded successful 2001, and successful July 2010, then-President Barack Obama singled retired Mastery for praise for its enactment successful improving troubled schools.