The Asbury Park Middle School Baseball Team won the 2014 Bayshore Middle School Baseball League Championship yesterday with an 8 – 6 victory over Keansburg, according to a district news release. The tough-fought game was one for the record books. Jamere Cancel [shown at right] led them team with two hits, two runs scored, one stolen […]

An Asbury Park juvenile showed up to Asbury Park Middle School Friday with a stab wound he allegedly received the day before while out on a city street, police said. The victim, a 15-year-old male, told the school nurse on Friday that he had been stabbed with a kitchen knife once in the lower portion […]

On Feb. 21, both girls and boys Asbury Park Middle School teams defeated Union Beach to claim Bayshore League Championship titles, according to a release from the school district. This year’s wins mark the second consecutive year both Asbury Park Middle School basketball teams have won championships. Last year, the girls and boys were crowned champions […]

In honor of Black History Month, the top six students in each class at Asbury Park Middle School were treated to a live performance by Newark-based performance group Faces of Black History on Feb. 6, according to a news release from district spokesperson Chanta L. Jackson. Faces of Black History is made up of performers […]

Asbury Park Middle School students attended an assembly dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 15, where they paid tribute to another civil rights leader, Nelson Mandela, according to an announcement from seventh grade teacher David Wronko. The date marks what would have been King’s 85th birthday. King’s leadership during […]

Asbury Park Middle School students spent a part of their instructional day in the Barack Obama Building after the school received a bomb threat Wednesday. The threat came in at 12:32, according to Asbury Park Police Capt. Marshawn Love. An investigation proved the incident to be a hoax called in by one of the Middle […]

The Asbury Park Middle School is ready for next week’s NJASK tests to begin, and students and staff celebrated during a pep rally on Thursday, May 2. “Our students need to get excited about taking the NJASK next week,” Superintendent Denise Lowe said in a prepared release. “I am confident that they will do well […]

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 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 […]