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Robert Treat Academy Graduating Class Receives Record $6M in Scholarship Offers

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Graduating eighth graders at Robert Treat Academy Charter School in Newark received a record $6 million in scholarship offers to attend private boarding and day schools in the fall.

The scholarship offers this year exceeded the average $4 million a year that previous classes have received since the first class graduated in 2005, said Theresa Adubato, the principal of Robert Treat.

"We are extremely proud of our students," Adubato said. "The scholarship offers that this class received are a reflection of all the hard work they have put into their academics during their elementary school years."

Robert Treat, which was established in 1997 by North Ward Center founder Stephen Adubato, enrolls 450 students at its North Ward campus. The second campus in the Central Ward, which opened in 2009, currently enrolls 100 children in grades K-3 and will eventually have 225 students in grades K-8 as it adds a grade every year. Robert Treat was nationally recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon school of excellence.

"The fact that these children are getting into the greatest high schools in America and on full scholarship shows that children in Newark can excel," Stephen N. Adubato said.

Students at the school have been accepted to some of America's most elite boarding schools including Cheshire, Choate Rosemary Hall, The School at Church Farm, Deerfield, Groton School, St. Paul's, Phillips Exeter, Phillips Academy Andover, the Peddie School and Lawrenceville. The boarding schools have offered students more than $4.6 million in scholarships.

A Proud Baseball Tradition Continues in Newark's North Ward

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The North Ward Center kicked off their Little League baseball season with a parade that culminated with opening day festivities in Essex County's Stephen N. Adubato Sports Complex in Branch Brook Park in Newark.A crowd of almost 1,000 joined the opening day's processions as hundreds of smiling children dressed in their team uniforms marched along with their parents and siblings down Mount Prospect and Bloomfield avenues to the park.

All five divisions of The North Ward Center's baseball program along with teams from the Roberto Clemente Little League participated in the more than 30 year tradition.

Academics Before Athletics at The North Ward Center

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Before they’re allowed to shoot baskets, children enrolled in The North Ward Center’s recreation program first have to hit the books.

The after-school tutoring program, designed for students in kindergarten through sixth grades who are struggling in school, was launched in response to parents’ demand to put academics before sports.

Grammy Award Winning Musician Molding Next Generation of Composers at Robert Treat Academy

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As a bassist for Latin jazz band Ruben Blades and Seis del Solar, Mike Vinas has performed on some of the biggest stages in the world.

But several times a week, the Latin Grammy Award winning artist comes to a classroom in Newark at the Robert Treat Academy to teach music composition to a small group of students in an afterschool enrichment program.