Awards
- For the 1997-1998 school year, Marine Academy of Science and Technology received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.
- MAST was one of two high schools recognized by the New Jersey "Star School" program in its inaugural year of 1993-94. MAST has been honored twice since with the New Jersey Department of Education's highest recognition for a New Jersey school, in both 1997-98 and 2003-04.
- For the 1998-1999 school year, MAST received additional national recognition as the New American High School.
- Best Practice Award (1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001,& 2003)
- New Jersey Governor's School of Excellence Award, October 2005
- Intel Scholastic 21st Century Schools of Distinction, 2004 finalist
- Toyota Tapestry Award, 2002
- Designation as NJROTC Honor Unit/CNET Unit or Distinguished Unit with Honors: every year since 1990
- In 2005-06, the school averaged a 1875 combined SAT score, sixth highest of all public high schools statewide.
- In April 2010, the MAST Ocean Bowl team competed at the National Ocean Sciences Bowl and placed 2nd in the nation.
- Schooldigger.com ranked the school as one of 16 schools tied for first out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (unchanged from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy (100.0%) and mathematics (100.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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