
June 10, 2025
Before Principal Steven Siciliano announced any awards on Senior Recognition Night, on June 2, he recognized the recipients of the top honors for the Class of 2025. Congratulation...

June 10, 2025
The entire third grade wing was filled with foods that students’ families had prepared: Sarma—Albanian stuffed cabbage, risotto Milanese—a creamy rice dish seasoned with saffron, ...

June 10, 2025
Parents began bouncing babies on their knees and siblings started swinging their feet … it was hard not to, when a third-grade recorder ensemble at Increase Miller Elementary bega...

June 6, 2025
“Bumblebees have five eyes.” “Ladybugs hibernate together in the winter.” “There are 3,000 different types of dragonflies.” “Fireflies taste terrible to their predators.” Meadow ...

June 3, 2025
John Jay High School’s Senior Recognition Night not only honored the accomplishments of the Class of 2025, but it offered a beautiful glimpse of the community groups, school assoc...

May 28, 2025
“I found mine!” As each class toured the Increase Miller Elementary Art show, exclamations of excitement were heard as students discovered their artwork displayed on tables, hang...

May 28, 2025
John Jay students walked up to the field at the top of the hill behind the Katonah Elementary, where three rigs and several trucks were parked. Loud releases of steam punctuated t...

May 22, 2025
Book Awards: · Bowdoin College: Parker Whitney · Saint Lawrence University: Miriam Wilson · Saint Michael’s College: Sofia Wilder · Saint Michael’s College: Julia Iamic...

May 21, 2025
Students’ eyes sparkled with delight during Team Zest’s Expo of Learning. They were the experts, and their parents were the ones solving algebraic equations and proofreading parag...

May 19, 2025
News from the International Science and Engineering Fair in Columbus, Ohio: John Jay Senior Matt Casavant has won a third-place special award from the American Psychological Assoc...

May 15, 2025
"I am Moana of Motunui. You will board my boat, sail across the sea, and restore the heart of Te Fiti." Moana’s beautiful story of courage, resilience and the importance of embrac...

May 15, 2025
Kindergarteners prepare for precipitation. Third graders ponder penguins molting and elephant matriarchs. Fifth graders consider the concept of entitled in relation to the First A...

May 7, 2025
Katonah Elementary’s fourth graders had time to slow down, look closely, and pay attention to their thoughts and feelings through a private visit to the Katonah Museum of Art. Th...

May 7, 2025
Just three miles from their classroom, students arrive in the lush, green world of Ward Pound Ridge Reservation. They’ve come to Kimberly’s Bridge, a bend in Cross River, to relea...

May 5, 2025
What exactly are carbon credits? If there is more water in the world, since all the ice is melting, why are there still droughts even in places like here in New York? What do YOU...

May 2, 2025
The fourth-grade wing of Increase Miller was bursting with excitement and inquiry! More than 20 high school students were visiting, and they brought models of the energy efficient...

April 30, 2025
“I’m really glad we’re doing this,” said one of the parents to Superintendent Raymond Blanch. “We’re feeling heard.” Others around the table nodded. Feedback like this drove home...

April 28, 2025
“Sorry, grown-ups! You can't go to school! Only kids and teachers!" the first graders chanted gleefully along with the special guest in Meadow Pond Elementary’s library—the one wi...

April 25, 2025
Students ran with hoses, hoisted sledgehammers, shimmied through small spaces while wearing air packs the size of backpacks—it was a test of strength and a cardio challenge that h...

April 24, 2025
“I felt heard.” “It was amazing to connect with like-minded students from all around the county.” “I learned so much!” This was just some of the feedback from the five John Jay s...