Eisenhower Middle School (Wyckoff)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School (EMS) is a middle school
Middle school
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 located in Wyckoff
Wyckoff, New Jersey
Wyckoff is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 16,696. As of the 2000 Census, Wyckoff ranked 54th in 100 highest-income places in the United States...

, New Jersey
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, as part of the Wyckoff School District
Wyckoff School District
The Wyckoff School District is a community public school district, serving students in Kindergarten through eighth grade from Wyckoff in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States....

. The school is named for late-President Dwight Eisenhower. As of 2010, the school principal is Stephen Raimo, and the vice principal is Chris Iasiello.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 884 students and 58.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE
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 basis), for a student-teacher ratio
Student-teacher ratio
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 of 15.0.

Awards and recognition

For the 2003-04 school year, Eisenhower Middle School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School
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 Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education
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, the highest award an American school can receive.

Extracurricular activities

The school maintains a wide variety of after school clubs, such as a Fish Tank Club, Games Club, Chocolate Club, Newspaper Club, Current Events Club, Brain Busters, Drama Club, Mathletes, Brain Busters, Homework Club, TAP, Orchestra, Jazz Band, Track, Basketball, Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad
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, and much more. The school also broadcasts a daily student-produced television show known as the "ETV", short for "Eisenhower TeleVision, which is aired live on Wyckoff cable channel 77 each weekday morning when school is in operation as well as on weekends at different times. It has a daily feature, school news updates, a Joke of the Day, a lunch update, birthday announcements, an ETV quiz question, and an opening and closing video where winners of the last ETV quiz are videotaped.

Also, there are many sports teams at Eisenhower, including Boys' and Girls' Soccer, Boys' and Girls' Basketball, Girls' Cheerleading, Boys' Baseball, Girls' Softball, and Boys' and Girls' Track-and-Field.

2006-2007 Construction

Starting in the spring of 2006, a major construction project started. It was the biggest in the history of Wyckoff
Wyckoff, New Jersey
Wyckoff is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 16,696. As of the 2000 Census, Wyckoff ranked 54th in 100 highest-income places in the United States...

, and took almost two years to build. The Elementary Schools, Lincoln, Coolige, Washington, and Sicomac also underwent a nearly 2 year construction.

Within old building

Many changes occurred inside as well, including moving the Guidance office from a small room at the end of the hallway to a large, multi-room office, about 1.5 times the size of a normal classrooms. The old Guidance office was made smaller so the room on the other side of the wall could be made into a science classroom, and the old Guidance office is used for Special Education
Special education
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. The summers of 2006 and 2007 were made longer than normal so that the construction inside of the building could be finished without students in the building. As of October 2007, the entire project was finished, except for the auditorium and two bathrooms (one boys' and one girls'). The auditorium will have a large stage and is expected to be completed by January 2008. Due to the wait for the auditorium, all of the musical concerts have been postponed to late January.

Within new building

The most anticipated (and most expensive) portion of this construction was the new wings: one in the front and one in the back. With the new building, in the front there were two music rooms, one major music room, a new entrance and new main office, and a new auditorium as well as a new media center. In the back, eight new classrooms, two small group instruction rooms, four science classrooms and a teachers workroom on two floors were added.

Problems caused by construction

During the construction, there were several problems encountered by students, teachers, staff, and construction workers. For the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year, the Home Economics classroom was almost empty. On October 11, 2007, a sewer main pipe underneath the rear hallway backed up due to a break in the line causing waste water to spill out of a clean out in the floor which created a foul oder in the hallway and some surrounding classrooms before being cleaned up by the custodial staff, making it hard for students in the area. Throughout the construction, there were four times where the fire alarms went off from a faulty duct detector located in the multi-purpose room.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Eisenhower Middle School include:
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  • Constantine Maroulis
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    .
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  • Danny Tamberelli
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    , actor
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