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This page refers to Marlboro Middle School, not Marlboro Memorial Middle School (abbreviated MMMS), in the same school district.

Marlboro Middle School (commonly abbreviated MMS) is a middle school located in Marlboro Township, New Jersey, as part of the Marlboro Public Schools, and goes from sixth grade through eighth.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,169 students and 87.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.4.^[1]

[edit] History

[edit] Prior Land Use

The three-story Marlboro Middle School building opened to students in September 1976 to house all of the district’s seventh and eighth graders. It is located on a 47-acre (190,000 m²) campus on County Route 520. The campus was at first, a Black Angus farm. The land was donated by H&L farms to the Township.

[edit] Contamination

During construction of soccer fields, the soccer field improvement program, tests conducted at the soccer complex showed elevated levels of unspecified contaminants. The Mayor closed the fields as soon as the test results came in. The township then applied for and received a grant to help with the anticipated remediation work. Marlboro received money from the Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund to conduct the soil remediation at the soccer complex. When it was cleaned up, the fields were sodded over and are currently being used.^[2]

[edit] Time Capsule

When researching the school's history, it was discovered that a time capsule had been placed in a location on school grounds with letters, messages, and items set in place by the first students of Marlboro Middle School. However, the location of the time capsule has since been lost and no one knows where the capsule is. The search for the capsule has long since been stopped.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Academics

Marlboro Middle School opens to students at 7:30 a.m. and students are dismissed at 2:15 p.m.^[3] The students are broken into "Teams" or "Quads." Each team consists of a group of students and a teacher for each core subject- Mathematics, English, World Language, Social studies, and science. The sixth grade teams have two English teachers, and switch off between their gym and world language classes every other day. Students that take Honors level Courses or study French language have other classes off-team. Some students are also cross-quadded, going to classes outside of their team because of scheduling difficulties. Related Arts classes, Physical Education/Health, and Sixth Grade Spanish are also outside of the team. All of the grades have three teams and since their average number of students is around 600, all the Teams are split into 125-150 Students. Together with Marlboro Memorial Middle School (which opened in March 2003), the two middle schools now house all of the district’s sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. There are also classes in French and Spanish. The school also features several related arts programs, including public discourse, family consumer science, health, computers, music, band, jazz band, orchestra, festival orchestra, chorus, show choir, applied technology, and diversity.

[edit] Physical Plant

The complex is a 146,000-square-foot (13,600 m²) brick building on three floors with three independent wings (The A Wing, B Wing, and D Wing). When the school was originally built, there were only two wings. The D Wing was added as an extension in 1998.

[edit] School Mascot

The Marlboro Hawk

The school's mascot, the Marlboro Hawk, was selected before the completion of MMS in 1966 by a student survey of the seventh and eighth grade students at Central School. When Marlboro Middle School opened in 1976, the Hawk mascot came with them.^[4]

[edit] Notable students

• Josh Flitter (born 1994), actor.^[5]
• Kal Penn (born 1977), actor and Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison under the Obama administration
• Felicia Stoler, host of Honey, We're Killing the Kids on The Learning Channel.^[6]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Marlboro Middle School web pages
• Marlboro Public Schools (K-8) official website
• Marlboro Public Schools's 2007–08 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• National Center for Education Statistics data for the Marlboro Public Schools