
Good day, please see the flyer regarding Hillside Public Schools District's New School Year (2025-2026) Kickoff Event! Taking place on Thursday, August 28th, 2025, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Ola Edwards Community School gymnasium, the Kickoff will include Lunch Assistance and additional Application support! We look forward to seeing you there.
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Shout out to Hillside Public Schools' Information Technology (I.T.) Department Intern, Clara, who has been helping our I.T. Department prepare student iPads for the new school year!
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Today (8/12/2025) was Hillside Innovation Academy's (H.I.A.'s) New Student Orientation! Welcome to all of H.I.A.'s incoming scholars, shout out to Principal Dr. Silva, all the H.I.A. staff, and the student ambassadors who were excited and ready to greet the new students! Here’s to an amazing journey ahead at Hillside Innovation Academy. New Student Orientation continues tomorrow (8/13/2025) and Thursday (8/14/2025)!
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Hillside Public Schools District has been spotlighted as one of Flashlight Learning's (@flashlight_360) Top 50 performing Districts nationwide! Hillside Public Schools District was selected because our multilingual students made some of the highest gains between their beginning and end-of-year benchmarks! As a recipient of this award, Hillside Public Schools District is now officially part of a group Flashlight calls the Language Legends—a group of districts that have promoted exceptional language growth in their students through hard work and implementation of Flashlight360. Congratulations and thank you to Hillside Public Schools' Director of ESL and World Language, Mrs. Evelyn Okparaeke as well our districtwide ESL teachers and staff for their hardwork!
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Hillside Public Schools District and Hillside Township Summer Camp students faced off in spirited volleyball matches full of laughs, teamwork, and great vibes at W.O.K. Middle School! Win or lose, it was all about having our community come together and collaborate while having a blast! Great job, students.
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Today (August 7th, 2025) was the last day of Hillside Public Schools' Summer Academies! We are closing out a summer of growth, learning, innovation, and memories! 🌟Students received certificates to recognize their completion of Summer Academies. A huge thanks to all our students, educators, and families who made this year’s Summer Academies successful and unforgettable!
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Today, 8/5/2025, Lisa Lee, the Director of Sustainability Programs at EZ Ride (@ezride_ig) visited the Lectec Summer Academy program at Hillside High School! Ms. Lee gave an awesome presentation while students constructed their scooters and learned important information regarding E-scooter safety! After the presentation, students were treated to an E-scooter demonstration outside by Ms. Lee. Thank you, EZ Ride, and our Hillside Public Schools Summer Academy staff for providing such innovative education to our students!
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Middle school students in the "Engineering Your Way" Summer Academy took on the challenge of building rockets yesterday (8/4/2025)! Up next is testing their designs, troubleshooting problems, and making improvements through redesign. Future engineers at work! Shout out to Hillside Public Schools' Supervisor of Science, Ms. Corona!
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Good afternoon, please be advised that the Thursday, July 31st, 2025, Regular Meeting has been rescheduled for Thursday, August 7th, 2025, at 6:30 pm. The meeting will take place at Hillside Innovation Academy, Board Room, 1100 Woodruff Ave., Hillside, NJ. Thank you.
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Good day, due to the New Jersey Weather State of Emergency, the Hillside Public Schools District Board of Education Meeting scheduled for today, Thursday, July 31st. 2025 is canceled. Thank you.


Good day, due to the New Jersey Weather State of Emergency, the Hillside Public Schools District will be closing at 2 p.m. today, Thursday, 7/31/2025. The closure includes all Hillside Public Schools' District offices and buildings. All school-related activities will be suspended at 2:00 p.m. Thank you and stay safe.


Students in our Extended School Year (ESY) program enjoyed some summer fun in the sun today (7/31/2025)! Thank you to all of our teachers and staff for making Hillside Public Schools Summer Academies and programs a joy for our students!
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Good day, please see the flyer for Hillside Public Schools' Summer Academy Spirit Week, taking place from August 4th - August 7th, 2025! Each day has a different themed attire, let's make the final week of Summer Academies a blast!
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Mrs. DeSanto's and Mr. Busichio's Summer Academy classes are currently working on extracting DNA from strawberries! Students are getting a real hands-on experience in biology this summer! Shout out to Hillside Public Schools' Science Supervisor, Ms. Corona.
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The following photos are from Hillside Public Schools’ Summer Academies’ “Flight Lab” ! Students received a flight robot named LINK, and participate in a variety of activities to learn about flight, including experiments with lift , and thrust! Fun, innovative learning at its best.
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Students in the Junior Achievement Financial Literacy class are learning about the impact of the government on financial institutions and the economy! Shout out to their teacher, Dr. Mathura!
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Congratulations, Hillside Public Schools! Hillside Public Schools is among hundreds of school districts across New Jersey receiving a share of nearly $3.75 million in state literacy grants aimed at improving early reading instruction! Click the following link to read the full story covered by TAPInto.
https://www.tapinto.net/towns/hillside/sections/education/articles/hillside-public-schools-among-local-districts-charter-schools-in-new-jersey-to-receive-literacy-grant
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@wearedronelegends at W.O.K. Middle school is awesome! Summer Academy students built structures using connector rods and balls, and then had the challenge of flying their drones through the structure without crashing! Our scholars also got to race their drones in the W.O.K. Shout out to Mr. Powers, who teaches the course, as well as Ms. Rosamilia for covering!
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Today, 7/16/2025, Hillside Public Schools' summer school students are engaging in Prisms Virtual Reality (VR) to study biology concepts! Shout out to Hillside High teachers Mrs. DeSanto , and Mr. Busichio!
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Please see the emailed attachment regarding Hillside Public Schools District's Summer Offerings for 2025! All program logos on the emailed document are hyperlinked, please click on the programs you are interested in, thank you! You may also visit the link here to access: https://5il.co/3lsay
