Competitions
Livingston's schools participate in many county, interschool, state, and national competitions. Highlights of the accomplishments are:
- Consistent winners of New Jersey State Bar Foundation Law Fair Mock Trail Competitions for grade 3 to 6. Riker Hill, Mount Pleasant, Harrison and Collins were winners in one of the 2008, 2007, 2006, 2002, 2001 and 2000 competitions.
- Mount Pleasant Middle School was first place national winner of Knowledge Master Open in 2007 and fourth place national winner in 2008
- Heritage Middle School was national first place winner in the Continental Mathematics League/Euclidean Divisions 7 and 8
- Heritage Middle School ranked #5 and #7 nationally in the Life Science and General Science respectively in National Science League
- Heritage Middle School was a finalist in the National Technology Student Association Conference.
- Livingston High School was ranked #2 in 2009 New Jersey Mathematics League contest. Mount Pleasant Middle School was ranked #2 in 6th grade. Heritage Middle School was ranked #9 in 7th grade and #1 in 8th grade.
- Livingston High School has been consistent first place winner of Essex County Math League from 1989 to 2009
- Livingston High School was placed first in the state in Integrated and Advanced Integrated Science in 2008 Merck State Science Day
- Livingston High School has been the Northern New Jersey Regional Champion of New Jersey Science Olympiad from 2004 to 2009. Livingston school district is one of the only three districts that have both middle and high schools in top ten of State Championship Tournament in 2009.
- Finalist of the Intel Science Talent Search 2009
- Livingston High School students won first-place awards in Pascrell Congressional Art Contest and Ducret School of Art Annual High School Student Art Show. Harrison Elementary school and Mount Pleasant Middle School students won first place in the 2007 National Kids-in-Print Book Contest for Students and Essex County Poster Contest.
- Livingston High School received recognition for its AP Program as a 2006-2007 State High School winner of the Seimen's Award for Advanced Placement
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