School News

Elizabeth Avenue School received one of 83 grants under a new program designed to support educational field trips. The school received $700 for a 3rd Grade trip to the Somerset County Environmental Center in Basking Ridge from the Community Foundation of New Jersey and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

Update: The brunch has been cancelled in favor of another event later in the year. .McAfee Road School alumni and current students and families are invited to attend a brunch to kick off the 50th anniversary celebration at the school on March 13.

Jordan Deavereaux was named to the Dean’s List at Rochester Institute of Technology for the fall semester 2015-2016. Deavereaux is studying in the applied computer technology program. Degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for Dean’s List if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; they do not have any grades of “Incomplete”, “D” or “F”; and they have registered …

Cedar Hill Preparatory School on Cedar Grove Lane was the scene Feb. 13 for a day of debating. The event was the quarterly Garden State Debate League tournament for middle school students. The league – with the Jersey Shore Debate League – is one of two in the state affiliated with the California-based Middle School Public Debate Program, said Dee …

A proposal to bring the Franklin High School graduation ceremony back to the high school campus is scheduled to be discussed at the Board of Education’s Jan. 28 meeting. The proposal comes from Thomas DiGanci, the interim high school principal, and was enunciated in a letter he recently sent to high school seniors’ parents.

Submitted by the YingHua International School. Renovation is underway at the historic Laurel Avenue School (c. 1920 with addition c. 1950) at the northeast corner of Laurel Avenue and Union Street in Kingston. The building, owned by Franklin Township, has been unoccupied with boarded windows for more than 10 years. It was last used as an elementary school in approximately 1997. …

About 125 competitors from around the region converged on Franklin High School Jan. 9 for the second Rubic’s Cube competition hosted by the school’s Red Cross Club. The club uses the event as a fundraiser, and, according to club co-president Ashwin Pozath, has seen participation grow from the inaugural event held in late 2014.

Submitted by Terry Ladd, Rutgers Prep. On Tuesday, January 5, Rutgers Preparatory School (founded in 1766) commemorated the first day of school in its 250th Anniversary year with an all school assembly in the Upper Gymnasium.

Submitted by Ana V. Kelly, St. Matthias School. A St. Matthias School 8th Grader received an award for her efforts during a Model United Nations Conference at Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft.

Students and faculty at Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School on Cortelyous Lane had a very busy December. On Dec. 15, students, parents and faculty delivered crates of food and more than $900 in cash to the Franklin Township Food Bank. The students raised the food and money during the course of the year.