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Superintendent: district readies bus-route updates, orientations and NJSLA field test as 115 students enroll
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Garay told the board the parent portal and bus-route notifications are live, 115 new students are registered (including 60 military students), staff convocation is Sept. 2 and selected students will participate in a fall NJSLA field test.
Superintendent Dr. Garay reported at the Aug. 27 board meeting that the district has posted updated bus routes and will notify families; the parent portal opened and families should confirm their assigned buses before the start of school.
Dr. Garay said 115 new students are registered to start the 2025–26 year: 94 at the primary school, 14 at the elementary school and seven at Cedar Drive Middle School. She added the district is welcoming about 60 military-connected students with more expected to enroll as the year begins.
The district will hold staff convocation Sept. 2, a tradition Dr. Garay described as a community celebration attended by township and police representatives. New-student orientations and kindergarten play dates are scheduled across buildings in the days before school starts, and the administration has been coordinating new-teacher orientation and professional-development planning.
Dr. Garay also alerted the board that the state is field-testing a new adaptive version of the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments (NJSLA) this fall and that participation by selected students is required: “there’s no option not to and that’s going to be in the fall,” she said, noting training and scheduling implications for administrators and special-needs students who may require accommodations or small-group settings.
Why it matters: updated bus routes, new enrollments and a mandated field test have operational impacts in the weeks before school starts. Families, particularly those with students who need testing accommodations or new transportation assignments, were urged to verify details in the parent portal and contact school offices with questions.
Other items Dr. Garay noted included continued policy work on a district Bill of Rights, an initiative to evaluate bus cameras with local law enforcement and outreach to senior citizens. The superintendent said administrators would provide further updates as details are finalized.
The meeting moved later to action votes on consent agenda items and to an executive session for confidential personnel and contract matters; no additional public action followed the superintendent’s report.
