Thursday, May 16, 2013
Millburn High School's students Brannon Cho and Saachi Gupta were named semifinalists in the 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, among the record high of six selected as candidates in early February.
Two of Millburn High's graduating seniors have been named semifinalists in the 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. Saachi Gupta and Brannon Cho were selected as semifinalists out of more than 3,000 candidates nationwide for their superior achievements, leadership qualities, personal character and involvement in community and school activities. "I'm happy for Brannon and Saachi," Principal Dr. William Miron said. "They are getting the the recognition they've earned." Cho and Gupta were among a record six Millburn High School students, along with Daniel Dembner, Panya Gupta, , Alec Tabatchnik and Michael Yuan who were selected as candidates in early February. Honoring the nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors, the …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
"It's trends that matter not snapshots," Superintendent Dr. James Crisfield said about the recent state school report cards.
With the recent volume of rankings and state report cards released for Millburn schools, the superintendent detailed the district's performance at Monday's Board of Education meeting. Although school ranks might have changed from last year, for the good and the bad, the administration won't be making many decisions based on them. "Any district would be extremely happy for those national and state results," Superintendent Dr. James Crisfield said. "But at the same time we cannot be complacent." Crisfield explained in his presentation, the district analyzes more detailed reports than what is compiled in the state report cards. Instead of using percentages of how students perform on test scores the district uses actual numbers. He explained, …
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Another defeat of Newark Academy wins the Conference Championship for Millburn High's varsity boys' tennis team.
The Millburn varsity boys' tennis team ended its regular season Friday with another hard-fought victory over archrival Newark Academy. The Millers have prevailed over the Minutemen in three out of four meetings this season, two of them in regular conference play. Undefeated in the SEC conference, American division, Millburn retains the conference championship for 2013. It is the 26th time since 1982 that the team has won its conference. In Friday's action on Millburn's home courts, the Millers were playing without starting first singles Tyler Schick. Senior Co-Captain Dean Koman filled in at the top spot, while Jonathan Duan and Jonathan Atwater played second and third singles, respectively. Duan scored the first team point for Millburn…
Thursday, May 9, 2013
The 2013 New Jersey Marathon at the shore took place this past weekend in Long Branch with 24 residents of Millburn-Short Hills participating.
More than 11,000 runners participated in this year's New Jersey Marathon in Long Branch this past weekend, where five Millburn-Short Hills residents ran the marathon and 19 finished the half. Oz Pearlman, 30, of New York, won the marathon on May 5 with a time of 2:28:23. Finishing behind Pearlman was Eddie Valentine, 33, of Arlington, VA, with a time of 2:36:35. In the woman category, Elizabeth Drews, 43, of Warren, finished with a time of 3:00:11. The top finishing local in the marathon, Stephen Pitt, 37, placed 1135 with a time of 4:11:06. Even more impressive, 48-year-old Peter Wick finished the half-marathon 163rd out of 5,350 participants with a time of 1:35:44. Check out the times of the five locals in the full 26.2-mile race below…
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Superintendent Dr. James Crisfield will give a presentation on the recently published NJ State Performance Reports and the high school rankings.
Superintendent Dr. James Crisfield will give a presentation at next week's school board meeting to address the recent rankings and reports published, the Millburn school district announced. The presentation will include an explanation of the new state Performance Reports, how they differ from the former NJ state report cards and what they mean for Millburn Schools, according to the announcement. He will also be reviewing recent national and state high school rankings and looking at where the schools stand and why, according to each publication’s methodologies. In the recent rankings and report cards: "We don't really use this report the way the state thinks we use it," Crisfield said previously, referring to the state school report cards…
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Photo gallery of Bergen County Tech vs Millburn Freshman softball game Saturday, May 4.
Two Short Hills college students achieve the honors at Washington and Lee University.
The following Washington and Lee University students have earned Dean's List status for the recently ended winter term 2013: Veronica Durando, of Short Hills, a member of the class of 2016 at Washington and Lee University Anna Murphy, of Short Hills, a member of the class of 2016 at Washington and Lee University Dean's List status at W&L represents a term grade-average of at least 3.4 on a 4.0 scale.
District achieves its highest rank in the last few years — 69th in the country and ranked highest among open enrollment schools in New Jersey.
In the most recent Newsweek America's Best High School rankings, Millburn High School was rated 69th, the highest ranking the district achieved in the last few years and also the highest among open enrollment schools in New Jersey. In the last few years the school has moved up more than 150 spots, having come from 227th nationally in 2010. In 2009, the school ranked 170th and 151th in 2008, respectively. In 2011, Millburn did not participate in Newsweek's survey and therefore did not make the rankings. The publication gave the high school an overall score of 3.64. The top school in the country, Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky, was given 4.84. Newsweek ranked the high schools based on six components: 25 …
Monday, May 6, 2013
The championship cup travels to Millburn High School after a close match.
On Sunday afternoon, Millburn’s varsity boys’ tennis team overcame archrival Newark Academy in the finals of the 40th annual Newark Academy Invitational Tennis Tournament, after having vanquished Delbarton in the quarterfinal round and Livingston in the semifinals. Having lost the Essex County championship title to Newark Academy only two weeks earlier, the Millers found the victory extra sweet. Early-round play The Delbarton match went 5-0 to Millburn on Saturday. In the Livingston match Sunday morning, Millburn’s first and third singles, Tyler Schick and Jason Ginsburg, defeated Anthony Caputo and Spencer Luster,respectively. Miller first doubles Teddy Moskovitz and Keith Knopp beat Sam Farber and Justin Patel, and second doubles Andrew…
Runners, sponsors being sought for May 11 event.
McLoone’s Boathouse in West Orange has once again partnered with The Griffin Bridges Program at Seton Hall Preparatory School in hosting their Second Annual “Building Bridges 5K,” which is set to begin with a 1-Mile Kids’ Fun Run at 9 a.m. and the official 5K Run/Walk at 9:30 on Saturday, May 11th. The event will be held at the South Mountain Reservation certified course on Crest Drive in Maplewood. Pre-registration can be done online; on-site registration will begin at 8 a.m. at the venue. The event will also feature an awards ceremony and post-race reception immediately following the race at McLoone’s Boathouse in West Orange. Proceeds from this event will go to support academically talented inner city scholars attending Seton Hall …
M OKeef
2:40 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
Congrats to all 6! and extra congrats to Saachi and Brannon on being semifinalists. Usually one qualifies for Presidential scholar with a perfect SAT score; 5 perfect SAT scores in one school's class is quite remarkable. (and guess I'm just assuming the Arts Scholar did not also get a perfect SAT score but who knows guess that was possible too) more ›