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Jack Woods proudly wears his Gold medal from the National Championships.
The South Orange - Maplewood School District announced Monday that Elizabeth Aaron will join Columbia High School as a new assistant principal beginning in the 2013-14 school year.
The Achieve Foundation presented the South Orange - Maplewood Board of Education with a check Monday night for $150,000 to support the restoration of the Columbia High School auditorium.
Olivia Baker pulled off a stunning comeback to help Columbia High School capture the girls’ Championship of America 4-x-800-meter relay title
Judy LoBianco, Supervisor of Health, Physical Education and Nursing Services was honored with the Channing Mann Physical Education Administrator of the Year Award
Columbia High School junior, Brett Ascher, earned the highest possible composite score of 36 on her ACT college admission and placement exam.
Jeremy Hobson, host of Marketplace Morning Report, visited Columbia High School to talk to students about social media, apps, and privacy.
South Orange and Maplewood photography students display work at the CHS gallery
Two options were presented to the Board of Education for possible uses of the Montrose School at the April 22nd meeting.
The Columbian Newspaper received the top honor of MOST OUTSTANDING HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER FOR 2012-2013
Students, staff and families gathered together on the lawn of Marshall School to participate in Autism Bubble Day 2013.
It was an electrifying celebration of all things Shakespeare at Columbia High School as the 11th Annual Shakespeare Festival culminated in a day full of student performances!
The CHS Robotics Team competed recently against 128 teams from around the globe in the World Championships in St. Louis and won the quarterfinals and moved to the top 12 teams in the world...
Columbia High School hosted an event dedicated to celebrating and promoting the activities of more than fifty student-led clubs, teams, and organizations.
Jefferson third graders had the opportunity to share their finished stories and illustrations with their families in a special giant publishing party.
Eleven members of Maplewood Middle School’s first Model United Nations Club recently participated in the 2013 Global Classrooms International Middle School United Nations Conference, held in New York City
Seth Boyden School students are enjoying yet another new piece of playground equipment as a comprehensive overhaul of the Outdoor Learning Center continues to take shape.
South Orange Maplewood School District 5th grade fiddlers and MS Honors Orchestra performed a Concert to Combat Hunger
The WordMasters Challenge™ is an exercise in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies ...
The class of 37 children collected 496 pairs of shoes to be donated...
Eight SOMS sixth graders received awards for their submissions to the national Letters About Literature Challenge.
SOMS Students joined students from 12 countries and 16 states for 3 days in NYC at the International Middle School Model UN Competition
Marshall School hosted the first annual Family Fitness Day
Columbia High School was awarded a Silver Medal as one of the Best High Schools in the Country, according to U.S. News and World Reports.
In honor of Women's History Month, the Women's History Professional Learning Community at Columbia High School hosted an an edited screening of the film "Iron Jawed Angels" on Thursday.
Aliea Nalbani and Olivia Elliott, students at Jefferson School, competed against students from Maplewood, South Orange and Summit in this weekend's Robotics Spring Fling at South Orange Middle School to win one of the two main competitions.
It's time again for Columbia High School's annual Shakespeare Festival, organized by teacher Steve MacPherson.
The legacy of the young man known for carrying a red bandanna since the age of 6, is being spread as an example of playing fair and helping others.
Evan Schwartzberg showed great knowledge and skill as he made it to round five of the Northern NJ Spelling Bee
Sydney Scruggs of Columbia is The Star-Ledger's Essex County boys indoor track Athlete of the Year for 2012-13.
School Board Election Info
All interested candidates for the school board election can pick up the candidates packets at:
Essex County Clerk Election Division
Hall of Records
465 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd.
Room 246, 2nd Fl.
Newark, NJ 07102
Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Contact information: (973) 387-7311
All Candidates Petitions must be submitted to the same office.
The Petition Filing Deadline for the School Board Election is:
Introducing OverDrive – a system to allow students to check out ebooks and read them on their home nook/kindle/iPad/other portable device for up to two weeks. The district is piloting OverDrive at SOMS, and very excited to expand students’ access to digital content. Students can access the site by using their student ID number with the letter P in front. The link for the site is:
http://somsdms.lib.overdrive.com.
Click here to view the OverDrive Smartguide.# # #
Dear SOMSD community,
The district migrated and updated the website: (www.southorangemaplewood.org). Unfortunately some of the links were broken during the process. We’ll be working diligently to repair them as soon as possible. If you experience any immediate issues, please email your concerns to: cwilson@somsd.k12.nj.us.
As a side note, the preferred browsers to view the website are:
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Internet Explorer (version 9 or better)
- Safari
In the interim, following is a list of popular links that you may find useful:
Maplewood Middle School Addition Update
2012-2013 School Year Calendar Amended
2013-2014 School Year Calendar
SOMSD 2012-2013 Calendar & Handbook
The South Orange Maplewood School District is now on Twitter!
