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Washington Elementary School was honored by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2019, one of nine schools in the state recognized as Exemplary High Performing Schools. [ 6 ] For the 1994-95 school year, Westfield High School was named as a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education , the highest honor that a New Jersey ...
Its programs are based in the fundamental philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori. It is one of the Montessori schools in New Jersey to serve students ranging up to fifteen years of age. As of the 2009–2010 school year, the school served 235 students, with 105 in pre-school and 129 in its Kindergarten through eighth grade program.
Hand painting in a Montessori school of Nigeria. Montessori classrooms for children from 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 or 3 to 6 years old are often called Children's Houses, after Montessori's first school, the Casa dei Bambini in Rome in 1906. A typical classroom serves 20 to 30 children in mixed-age groups, staffed by a fully trained lead teacher and assistants.
In 1996 the New Jersey Department of Education revised the elementary school core curriculum to require foreign language classes. In mid-October 1999 the district sent a questionnaire to 13,000 houses regarding what language should be taught to elementary students.
Daycroft Montessori School Scio Township, Michigan. Because there is no single registry or even uniform definition as to what constitutes a Montessori school, there is some dispute as to the number of private Montessori schools in the United States. Estimates range from just under 4,000 to greater than 8,000.
For the 1994–95 school year, Westfield High School was named as a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve. [ 15 ] The school was the 21st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on ...
The Westwood Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from the communities of the Borough of Westwood and Washington Township in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, two communities located approximately 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Midtown Manhattan.
The Upper Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district, serving students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Upper Township, in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [3] Students from Corbin City, a non-operating district, attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving ...