Education

Sophie Araten, a 15-year-old Millburn High School sophomore, was chosen as one of the top 11 winners of The Learning Network's second annual STEM Writing Contest. She competed against 3,740 other entrants. 

Araten's topic was using dogs to detect COVID-19. She began her essay with the fact that dogs are able to sniff out cancer, ...

MILLBURN, NJ — Ananya Mandrekar, a fifth-grader at Washington School, will be competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee this summer. 

After winning her school's spelling bee in March, Mandrekar won the virtual Essex County Spelling Bee, triumphing over some students that were three years older than she is. 

In the Scripps National Spelling Bee, ...

The Washington School in Millburn opened its doors to fifth-graders only four years ago in 2017, promising an innovative and exciting experience for its students. This year, students and teachers teamed up to showcase the most notable ways in which the school has continued making this reality despite the pandemic. Their finished product, a video, was presented to the Board of Education on May ...

Signing Day, one of the happiest of high school traditions, celebrates student-athletes who will be playing their high school sport on their college’s team.

Despite the gray and drizzly day, the joy was palpable as students wearing their college apparel posed for pictures with their families and their coach and signed their college documents.

Athletics Director Frank Bifulco told the ...

Middle school is a trying time, especially in a highly competitive school district. Millburn Middle School, specifically, has shown a pattern of overly stressed students -- unnecessary triggers wear out students even before they reach high school. Mr. Connolly, Principal of the Middle School, has put together a new method of easing students through school: a rotating schedule that will go into ...

This week, students at Millburn High School and Millburn Middle School returned to a full day of in-person education. This follows thirteen months of virtual and limited in-person opportunities. Elementary schools, on the other hand, are maintaining the former system in which students come to school for only four hours per day. As of now, it looks like nothing will change in the final two months ...

SOUTH ORANGE/MAPLEWOOD, NJ — A school year like no other has prompted South Orange-Maplewood parents to launch the community's first independent elementary school.

The Village School of South Orange is accepting applications for students starting this fall in grades kindergarten through fifth.

Conversations about wanting to open an independent school started last year on the local ...

The Millburn Millers lacrosse team’s match against Dayton on Wednesday began with an emotional pregame tribute to Robbie Almgren, a former teammate who passed away December 27, 2020, days after being diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

The Millers' seniors walked out to midfield together and placed Almgren’s #12 jersey and equipment there before the game began.

Millburn High School (MHS) was rated the 15th best public high school in New Jersey in U.S. News & World Reports' annual Best High School list. MHS scored 370 in the National Rankings of all the high schools in the country with an overall score of 97.93/100.

It's important to note that MHS is an open enrollment school and ranks even higher amongst high ...

BATON ROUGE, LA -- Dolores Quezada of Millburn was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Quezada was initiated at Kean University.

Approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni are initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only ...