Attales Middle School hosted Back to School Night on Thursday, Sept. 21.

The Attales Sledgehammer Award tradition continued in Absecon last week as Mrs. Witmer awarded the Sledgehammer to 8th Grade student J.J. at the first Family Meeting of the school year on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023.

The deadline for the VFW’s annual Patriot's Pen youth scholarship contest is fast approaching.

On Monday, more than 100 students from Attales Middle School visited the 9/11 Memorial on Mill Road to participate in a remembrance ceremony on the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

As the school year gets underway, we are asking that parents and guardians to please review the following bicycle and scooter safety information with your children to ensure they safely arrive to and home from school each day.

As the new school year gets underway, we would like to remind all those who pick up and drop off their students of a few helpful tips.

Get ready for the 2023-24 school year! School supply lists have been updated for the upcoming years. Please follow the links below:

Since March, first grade students from Marsh Elementary and eighth grade students from Attales Middle schools have been meeting together every other week to work on a puppet show project in groups of two or three. The small groups selected a nursery rhyme, read and analyzed the story together through games, and then created sock and paper bag puppets together.

Please see the following message from our Superintendent Dr. Daniel J. Dooley on the status of the Absecon and Pleasantville Send-Receive Agreement.

Absecon Public Schools is proud to announce that Superintendent Dr. Daniel J. Dooley has been named the 2023-2024 Atlantic County Superintendent of the Year, as selected by his peers on the Atlantic County Association of School Administrators.

Third and Fourth Grade students from H.A. Marsh Elementary School were recognized Thursday, June 8 before their family, teachers and peers for academic, social and emotional, artistic and athletic successes during the annual Marsh Awards Ceremony.

The Attales Boys Track and Field team was named co-champions of the Atlantic Cape Jr. High League Division 2.

Last week, students in our afternoon STARS program planted flowers and other plants that will attract pollinators such as butterflies and bees in a newly created garden behind the Marsh school.

During the game, more than $1,000 was raised for the Absecon Police Department's Community Policing Fund, which puts on activities for the children of Absecon such as Hooked on Fishing and Shop with a Cop, and for the purchase of school recess recreation equipment.

Congratulations to the Emma C. Attales Middle School Students of the Marking Period for the 3rd Marking Period!

Attales Principal Mr. Burns and Guidance Counselor Mrs. Carver traveled to various classrooms recently to congratulate the 2nd Marking Period Students of the Marking Period.

Absecon Public Schools Preschool and Kindergarten students had a special visit from New Jersey-based children's author Nancy Viau on Friday, Feb. 24.

VFW Memorial Post 9462 announced the winners of this year’s local Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest and Citizenship Education Teacher Award during a visit to Absecon Public Schools on Thursday, Feb. 23.

Students at Attales Middle School had a chance to learn more about maple syrup production on Thursday, Feb. 9, when Debra Sommers, education specialist for Stockton University’s Maple Grant project, visited to help students tap their own Maple tree.

The Attales Drama Club presented “Aladdin JR.” to a packed house both Thursday and Friday, Feb. 9 and 10.

Earlier this month, the Atlantic County Office of Education issued a review of Absecon Public Schools' 2022-23 school budget, pursuant to state law.

Students at Absecon's Marsh school will be asked to sign up and commit to “Get Moving” or “Be Kind” while raising money to help fund community initiatives, education, research and quality of care – all to fight the No. 1 killer in the world, heart disease.

The students in Mrs. Hodgens’ and Mrs. Caputo’s Special Education classes at Attales Middle School recently traveled to the Humane Society of Atlantic County to deliver newspapers and handmade blankets for the animals.

Congratulations to Zidane Aminu, 3rd Place - 6th Grade Competition; Nina Perez, 2nd Place - 7th Grade Competition; and Hannah Cavileer, 1st Place - 7th Grade Competition.

Eighth-graders Jadyn C., Grace M., and Michael M. competed against Mrs. McSorley, Mr. Adair and Mr. Seals in the trivia show, which was filmed in November.

On the last day of school before Winter Break, students and staff at Attales Middle School gathered for a Family Meeting where two people received the school's Sledgehammer Award.

Several Attales Middle School students were honored Friday during a Family Meeting as Students of the Marking Period for MP1.

Absecon Public Schools is pleased to announce its 2022-23 Teachers of the Year and Educational Services Professionals of the Year, all of whom have demonstrated tremendous dedication to their profession and the students they serve.

Seventeen students were inducted into the Attales Middle School chapter of the National Junior Honor Society during a ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 30 before parents, teachers and friends.

Please read the following update on the district's request to sever our send-receive relationship with Pleasantville High School, and how you can help us achieve that goal by writing a letter to the governor.

Several of Mrs. JoJo Martin’s 4th Grade Media Arts students traveled to the Lion’s Club Blind Center in Absecon on Nov. 8 to share games/mazes they created as part of their coursework.

The Attales Middle School’s first two-time Sledgehammer recipient, STEAM teacher Mrs. Christina King, fittingly presented the award to two of her students on Wednesday, Nov. 9 - sixth graders Jedidiah and Dior.

In recognition of Veterans Day, our National Junior Honor Society students at Attales Middle School recently visited American Legion Post 28.

Leaders from Absecon Public Schools were honored to share the ins and outs of bringing therapy dogs to a school district as presenters during the New Jersey School Board Association Workshop 2022 at the Atlantic City Convention Center recently.

Marsh Elementary celebrated Halloween with a parade led by Marshy the Mariner, our school mascot, followed by classroom parties.

The state of New Jersey is asking parents to participate in a Broadband Assessment Survey that will help identify areas that are lacking sufficient broadband access. Those areas will then be eligible for the expansion of broadband with federal and state grant funding.

Absecon Public Schools alumna AraBella Pyles, a freshman student at Atlantic County Institute of Technology, was recently accepted into the Future Doctors Program from Harvard Student Agencies and Learn with Leaders.

Absecon Public Schools is pleased to announce the district has been awarded an $8,461 Safety Grant from the New Jersey Schools Insurance Group for security upgrades in its buildings.

Attales Middle School is proud to announce our 2022-23 National Junior Honor Society officers:

It was a winning start as the Emma C. Attales Middle School Crusaders’ fall sports season got underway this week.

H.A. Marsh Elementary School hosted Back to School Night on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022.

Absecon Public Schools' Preschool Program hosted a Grandparents' Day celebration on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022.

We had a great turnout for Attales Back to School Night on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022.