Education

Franklin High School has been named one of the top high schools in the nation for 2023-2024 by US News and World Report. The ranking was announced at the September 28 Board of Education meeting. The school scored in the top 40 percent of nearly 18,000 high schools nationally ranked by the magazine. FHS ranked 164th in New Jersey, out …

September 7 was the first day of school for township students in grades K-12. In addition to welcoming new students, several schools in the District welcomed new administrators, one of whom was Franklin Park School principal Jennifer Stein. Stein, who came to FPS from being the vice-principal at Elizabeth Avenue School, took some time to speak with the Franklin Reporter …

Ava DeLauro of Franklin Park 08823 was named to the Dean’s List at Lehigh University in the Spring 2023 semester.  List status, which is awarded to students who earned a scholastic average of 3.6 or better while carrying at least 12 hours of regularly graded courses, has been granted to Ava DeLauro in the Spring 2023 semester. Centenary University recognized 18 students, …

POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE – Students make their way into the gymnasium for the FHS Class of 2023 commencement exercises. There are now 609 more young men and women who can call themselves graduates of Franklin High School. The threat of bad weather forced the Class of 2023 commencement ceremony indoors to the gym on June 23, but impending rain didn’t …

STEM TALK – Students gather in the Franklin High School cafeteria June 2 in preparation for the Med/Tech Club’s third STEMposium. The Franklin High School Med/Tech Club held its annual end-of-the-year STEMposium on June 2. Unlike other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) events where exhibits and experiments are displayed in classrooms throughout the school, the STEMposium was held in …

SSP Architects will be co-hosting the Franklin Township Warrior Education Foundation 3rd Annual Golf Outing on June 26 at Heron Glen Golf Club in Ringoes. Golfer check-in begins at noon when golfers will pick up their lunch boxes. The shotgun start begins at 1 p.m., with an awards dinner and BBQ at 5:30 p.m. The event is the primary source …

FUTURE INVENTORS – Conerly Road School students Savannah Sewnarine, Amari Montas and Vihaan Patel and their teacher, Stephen Neely, after the winners were announced. A team of 5th Graders from the Conerly Road Elementary School won the district’s second annual Invention Competition at Franklin High School on May 10. Funded by the township-based Sodhani Foundation, the competition is designed to …

Michelle E. Driscoll of Somerset, a student at Rutgers Prep, was awarded the Bristol Myers Squibb-sponsored National Merit Scholarship award. Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc., annually awards scholarships to the children of active, full-time employees of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company U.S. divisions and subsidiaries. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company is a research-based, diversified health care company whose principal businesses are pharmaceuticals, consumer products, nutritionals …

ON TO PLAN B – Plans to turn the historic Tulipwood House into an RVCC satellite campus were shelved due to cost and historic preservation concerns. A plan to convert an historic township building into a satellite campus for Raritan Valley Community College was scuttled, mainly because of renovation price constraints. The idea of converting the circa-1892 Tulipwood House on …

Tuition at Raritan Valley Community College will increase $6 per credit, starting in the Fall 2023 semester. That means tuition for the average full-time student taking 30 credits will increase by $180 for the year, according to a press release from the College.. For the average part-time student taking 12 credits during the academic year, tuition would increase by $72, …