Education

The township’s three public high schools achieved award-winning rankings in the 2025 U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of high schools. The ranking takes into account a number of criteria, including graduation rates, performance on standardized tests, enrollment in advanced placement courses, and how well they prepare students for college, according to the magazine. The publication reviewed more than …

Suhaib Jawad, of Somerset, a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Metropolitan Campus in Teaneck, has been named to the Honors List for the Spring 2025 semester. To qualify for the Honors List, a student must carry a 3.5 or better grade point average out of a possible 4.0 and be enrolled in a minimum of 12 letter-graded hours (four courses). …

The school district and a charter school are recipients of state grants designed to improve literacy in elementary school students. Both grants were from the state Department of Education’s Funding for Optimal Comprehensive Universal Screeners, or FOCUS, program, through which $2.3 million was awarded statewide. The district received $20,040, while Central Jersey College Prep Charter School received $2,900. The funding …

The Board of Education at its June 19 meeting approved the following contracts, totaling $2,265,961: A transportation contract with Montauk Transit LLC – Bridgewater, NJ from March 18, 2025 – June 26, 2025, identified as Bid 26-07 awarded on March 18, 2025, Contract SG.900/990 in the amount of $23,625.00. A transportation contract with ABC Transit Corp., North Brunswick, NJ from …

VALEDICTORY ADDRESS – Aaryan Patel, the Franklin High School Class of 2025 Valedictorian, gives his address during the June 26 graduation ceremony in Warrior Stadium. Don’t fear the unknown, but, rather, chase it, was the advice given to the Franklin High School Class of 2025 by its Valedictorian at their graduation ceremony on June 26. “Class of 2025, don’t be …

ADDRESSING GRADUATES – Franklin Middle School – Sampson G. Smith campus principal Rebekah Solomon speaks during the 8th Grade Promotion ceremony at Franklin High School on June 25. Franklin Middle School 8th Graders on June 25 got a taste of what assembling in the Franklin High School gym will be like at the 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony. The 470 students …

Centenary University awarded degrees to 431 graduates at its 150th commencement, which was held as two separate in-person ceremonies presided over by President Dale Caldwell, Ed.D., on the University’s Hackettstown campus. One ceremony recognized graduates who earned associate and undergraduate degrees, while a second event showcased academic accomplishments of master’s and doctoral graduates. Graduating from Franklin were: Troy Micheal Sumpter of Franklin Park, Bachelor …

DELIVERING THE STATS – Nicholas Solomon, the school district’s Director of School Management, reviews the Student Safety Data report for the first half of the 2023-24 school year. Township students are below average when it comes to being “written up” for disciplinary incidents, the Board of Education was recently told. Students in the elementary, middle and high schools received fewer …

CELEBRATING STUDENTS – Nikkii Tatum, who runs the Road To Success program, said this year’s class may have the most graduates in its history. Students who completed the alternative high school program “Road To Success” were honored June 17 with an awards ceremony and party. The program’s mission is to, “prepare enrolled students to graduate high school and be college …

Central Jersey College Prep (CJCP) announced that for the fifteenth straight school year, 100 percent of its senior class will be graduating on time this Spring and that every member of the Class of ‘25 has also been accepted to a college or university next fall, continuing an unprecedented senior class streak for CJCP which began in 2011.   This …