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Education

Madison is well known as a community with exceptional educational resources and is home to three universities and colleges–Drew University (www.drew.edu), Fairleigh Dickinson University’s College of Florham at Madison (www.fdu.edu) and the College of Saint Elizabeth (www.cse.edu).

Each of these colleges offers a full range of undergraduate liberal arts, pre-professional and professional majors, as well as daytime, evening and weekend graduate courses and degree programs. Students enrolled at any campus are allowed to take certain courses at the other two. Drew and Fairleigh Dickinson allow high school students to enroll and receive university credit for courses on a space available basis.

The Madison School District is well regarded for its broad-based curriculum, statewide rankings and the high level of individual support given to each student. Almost 75 percent of faculty members possess advanced degrees, and over 90 percent of Madison High School graduates attend institutions of higher learning with many admitted to the nation’s most prestigious universities.

The district is comprised of three elementary schools—Kings Road, Central Avenue and Torey J. Sabatini—each of which serves students in K-5. Elementary students begin Spanish lessons in the first grade, and instrumental music starts in fourth grade.

Madison Junior School houses grades six through eight. Its full slate of core academic, athletic and performing arts programs includes French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese, all beginning in sixth grade.

Award-winning music and performing arts programs at the junior school and high school include full concert, strings, orchestra and choral programs. The annual high school musical is a favorite community event.

Madison High School is often cited in statewide and national rankings. The school is currently recognized as one of America’s outstanding high schools by U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek magazines.

Recently, Madison High School students have been recognized as Intel Science Search Finalists, Presidential Scholars, Davidson Fellows and National Merit Finalists. Athletic programs include 21 boys, girls and co-ed sports, many of which compete annually for state titles.

The high school student body includes students from adjacent Harding Township (New Vernon) through a receiving relationship, as the Harding schools operate K-8.

In addition to the public schools, Madison has private nursery schools, Montessori preschools and kindergartens, and an award-winning parochial elementary school, St. Vincent Martyr School (www.rosenet.org/svm).

Other educational offerings are available through the Adult School of Madison, Chatham and Florham Park and the Madison Public Library (www.rosenet.org/library), via a partnership in which Drew University faculty teach adult “mini courses” at the library.