Nurturing curious, confident children on 14 acres of natural learning spaces in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Nurturing curious, confident children on 14 acres of natural learning spaces in Bergen County, New Jersey.
When Head of School Marek Beck, Ph.D., was thinking about ways to provide increased rigor while empowering students through their development with mathematics, he decided to bring a challenged-based math…
EMS is committed to fostering future leaders who can collaborate effectively despite differences. To achieve this goal, Head of Middle School and Director of Secondary School Placement Jed Silverstein, Ph.D.,…
Our graduating students were admitted to the most distinguished secondary day and boarding schools “It’s no surprise that the most selective secondary day and boarding schools in the country continue…
This past summer, three teachers at The Elisabeth Morrow School received a special invitation to travel to South Korea with Sejong Cultural Education Inc., an Englewood Cliff, N.J., group focused…
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For the 2023–2024 academic year, Morrow House is enriching the student learning environment with a full year of instruction from two learning specialists for fifth and sixth graders and implementing honors enrichment electives for seventh and eighth graders. All students can develop their voice and agency in student government, student-led clubs and activities, and Leadership Lab. Assembly and advisory build relationships between students and teachers, and help to create a community within Morrow House.
Our campus and facilities are an essential platform for our faculty and administration to bring their academic vision to life for our students. Our campus and facility strategy remains focused on two key elements: It is driven by the school’s needs as defined by our strategic plan, as well as the continual maintenance and modernization of our campus while being true to its original design.
In Little School for the 2023-2024 academic year, we have focused on strengthening our Student Success Team and bringing in more learning specialists to accelerate students across each grade level in both math and literacy. Our new Family Visiting Days were a success and showed families the connection to what students learn in Little School and how it continues through Morrow House and beyond. In addition, we have continued to instill the 4 C’s with our Apple Bake Sale, a PE social-emotional learning class, and our weekly divisional assembly. We are continuing our commitment to growth in literacy, piloting a new social social studies program, collaborating with our gardening faculty to create new programs aligned with environmental and sustainability efforts, and so much more.
More than 85% of the school’s annual expenses support educational programs in the form of faculty and staff salaries, benefits, program and instructional materials, and financial aid. The school’s physical plant, technology services, general administrative support, and capital improvements account for the remaining 15%.
For the 2023–2024 academic year, 86 new students enrolled — making our start-of-the-year enrollment 387 students. Interest in EMS from prospective families has been strong, and since the start of school, eight new students have enrolled. Our current enrollment is 395.
Accustomed to a challenging academic environment, EMS students welcome the demands of competitive secondary schools and are often placed in advanced sections where they perform very well. See where our students have been accepted.
