Awards and Recognition
The West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District is one of the top achieving districts in New Jersey. The high schools hold first to fifth places in many of the state's contests. In 2004, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North was ranked #1 in the state of New Jersey by New Jersey Monthly magazine and West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South was ranked #5. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South was the 9th ranked public high school, and North was 18th-ranked, in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South was recognized during the 1992-93 school year, and Maurice Hawk Elementary School was recognized during the 1993-94 school year, with the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North was recognized in the 2006-07 school year with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.
In both the 2004-05 and 2006-07 school years, the Community Middle School Science Olympiad team was first in the country.
In 2009, the West-Windsor Plainsboro District FIRST Robotics Competition Team #1923, The MidKnight Inventors, won the NJ Regional in Trenton, NJ. In 2010 they won the Engineering Inspiration Award at the Boston FIRST Robotics Regional and in 2011 the MidKnight Inventors won the Northeast Utilities Connecticut FIRST Robotics Regional where they also brought home the Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition awards. The team has been competing since 2006 and consists of students from WW-P High Schools North and South. Community Middle School also sponsors two FIRST Lego League teams.
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