Schools of Character
Millville Public Schools has been awarded the following designations by the Schools of Character organization:
🏆 2024 New Jersey State School of Character
- Rieck Avenue Elementary
🏆 2023 New Jersey State Schools of Character
- Child Family Center
- R.M. Bacon Elementary
- Lakeside Middle School
- Millville High School
🏆 2023 New Jersey State Honorable Mention School
- Holly Heights Elementary
🏆 2023 New Jersey State Emerging Schools of Character
- Mt. Pleasant Elementary
- Rieck Avenue Elementary
- Silver Run Elementary
PRINCIPLE 1
Core values are defined, implemented, and embedded into school culture.
PRINCIPLE 2
The school defines “character” comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and doing.
PRINCIPLE 3
The school uses a comprehensive, intentional, and proactive approach to develop character.
PRINCIPLE 4
The school creates a caring community.
PRINCIPLE 5
The school provides students with opportunities for moral action.
PRINCIPLE 6
The school offers a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them succeed.
PRINCIPLE 7
The school fosters students’ self-motivation.
PRINCIPLE 8
All staff share the responsibility for developing, implementing, and modeling ethical character.
PRINCIPLE 9
The school’s character initiative has shared leadership and long-range support for continuous improvement.
PRINCIPLE 10
The school engages families and community as partners in the character initiative.
PRINCIPLE 11
The school assesses its implementation of character education, its culture and climate, and the character growth of students on a regular basis.