Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School

Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School (or MEMS) is a public seventh and eighth grade middle school located in Manalapan, New Jersey. It was built in 1992.

Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School, or MEMS, is part of the award-winning Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District. The area of MEMS is over 275,000 square feet. Since there are over 1,400 students, MEMS operates using a system that includes ten "communities" that are named after Greek letters. Each community has its own group of teachers and students, and there are even "community days" for the students to interact with other students in their community. The seventh grade communities are Delta, Gamma, Beta, Alpha, and Zeta, and the eighth grade communities are Sigma, Omega, Theta, Kappa, and Lambda. Each community also has a sister community in the other grade. Schedules usually include sixty to seventy minute classes (homeroom is not a separate period) and seven periods, with a different double period for a different core subject each day. The only communities that do not have to follow this rule are Delta and Sigma (sister communities), which have extended periods for all the core subjects instead of one double period for one core subject. MEMS uses an A-F day system; on days ACE, the eighth grade communities have a double period while seventh graders have physical education or health class, and it is vice versa on BDF days. Students are sorted into three levels of classes (Levels 1, 2, and 3, 1 being the highest).

MEMS has two stories and recently had a new wing built, which includes several new rooms, air-conditioning throughout the school, a redesigned courtyard, and a new gym. Facilities include locker rooms, more than one soccer field, a track, several computer labs, and a cafeteria. MEMS is noted for its electronic equipment, including smart boards, three to five computers in every room, 20-30 computers in each computer lab, and an electronic account for every lunch-purchasing student.

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Clubs, teams, and committees include a student council, a newspaper called the Paw Print Press, a soccer team, a basketball team, a yearbook committee, a cheerleading squad, a football team, a tennis team, a track team, a softball team, a baseball team, a wrestling team, a field hockey team, a math club, a Battle of the Books team, etc. The school's main emphasis in this department is sports.

This school is noted for its AT/WD (Academically Talented/With Distinction) projects for each core subject, which are special projects for those students who wish to challenge themselves. To participate in a WD project, the student's grades in that subject must be B+ or higher, and in AT projects, the student's grades in that subject must be A- or higher. AT/WD projects are usually submitted in competitions such as the New Jersey Social Studies Fair.

Awards

The MEMS yearbook has been the top 10 list of USA yearbooks for the past eight years.

Two to six students have placed in the New Jersey Science Fair for the past ten years. This year AT/wd Social Studies Fair took place on January 12th, 2007

External links

• Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School website
• Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School profile provided by schooltree.org
• Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School profile provided by greatschool.net