The state has released its school report cards for the 2011-2012 school year, and Asbury Park Middle School was found to be significantly lagging in academic achievement, college and career readiness and student growth. The high school fared better in most respects. “The issues in Asbury Park long pre-date me and it’s going to take […]

The Asbury Park High School theatre department is gearing up for its spring musical, “Once on this Island.” The play tells the story of a group of Caribbean islanders who are in the midst of a violent tropical storm. “It’s about a little girl who survives a hurricane and believes her life is destined for […]

The state-run Regional Achievement Center [RAC] recently created school improvement plants for Asbury Park Middle School and High School. Region Five RAC executive director Mario Barbiere delivered a presentation to the board of education at its Feb. 11 meeting to keep board members up to date on RAC activity. New Jersey is one of the […]

Starting in the second semester of this school year, the high school will offer a fashion merchandising and design class for its students. The curriculum for the class was approved by the board already, and High School Principal Reginald Mirthil is now being tasked with naming a teacher for the course, which begins Feb. 5. […]

Decades separate local teenagers from the members of the Asbury Park VFW, but an area mother has brought the two groups together by hiring a popular DJ to put on teen parties at VFW headquarters. Kimberly Brown [pictured at right, third from left], of Neptune, organizes the parties, which started this fall. VFW members donated […]

Now that the high school students involved in “Charlotte’s Web” have taken their final bow, theater fans can enjoy an online video documenting the theater department’s months of preparation. The video, embedded below and entitled “Spinning ‘Charlotte’s Web,’” shows set construction, rehearsals and footage of the high school students taking their show on the road to […]

The Asbury Park High School Drama Department will perform the children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” in play form tonight and tomorrow at 7 p.m. “There’s a reason ‘Charlotte’s Web’ is considered a classic,” director Gary Kilmer said in a prepared release. “It’s a timeless tale that has kindly and gently been teaching readers for generations the […]

At last week’s School District Meet-and-Greet in the Barack Obama Building, parents and district employees discussed parent programs and formally met some new administrators, including high school principal Reginald Mirthil. MEETING THE PRINCIPAL Mirthil, who is an alumnus of Asbury Park High School, just started as principal in September. “I am humbled to stand before […]

In 1962, Marilyn Monroe died, the first Wal-Mart opened, Andy Warhol painted a soup can — and about 350 students graduated from Asbury Park High School. Fifty years later, some of those students are reaching out to their former classmates to spread the word about a class reunion, scheduled for the weekend of Oct. 28. […]

Last month’s Asbury Park High School production of “The Wiz” was so successful, theater/dance department head Gary Kilmer is about to do cartwheels in the road — literally. Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., Kilmer will cartwheel down Sunset Avenue in front of the high school, making good on a statement he made during rehearsals. A month […]