Ocean Gate School District

We are grateful for the leadership and heart Dr. Ott brought to Ocean Gate School. His patience, understanding, and kindness helped shape a positive and joyful school community. Th...

We are so grateful for everyone who made this Winter Concert come to life! Congratulations to Mr. Dondero and his music, chorus, and band groups that put on an amazing show!!❄️ ...

Tonight we celebrated our annual Dinner with Santa. Thank you so much to the PTO, staff, and donators for all you did to make this night happen! It is so special that we have a sch...

Congratulations to our winners for Teacher, Educational Support, and Staff member of the year! First in our list, we have our Teacher of the Year, Sandy McCue. Mrs. McCu...

This past Wednesday, we celebrated our first house meeting of the 2025-2026 school year! New friends were sorted into one of the groups: Caring, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility, ...

Today we celebrated Fire Prevention Week by exploring a firetruck and learning how to prevent and escape fires! Thank you to the Ocean Gate Fire Department for teaching our student...

Today we honored the brave men and women who have fought to keep our country safe, free, and united. The students learned about what Veteran’s Day means and why it is important to ...

Gym just got a little cooler! Mr. RJ is teaching the classes how to play pickleball. The students are so excited to learn about a new sport!

Happy Halloween! We had, yet again, another successful Halloween parade around the school. Thank you to the staff for ensuring a safe and happy experience for the students, and tha...

The forth grade class used trial and error to see how many candy corn should be in a bottle to do a perfect bottle flip! They used a data sheet to calculate how many they missed an...

Kindergarten took their annual trip over to Atlantic Farm to pick pumpkins, feed animals, and learn more about fall! Thank you, Mrs. Parliman for organizing another wonderful adven...

Mrs. Szewczyk’s fifth grade class was all wrapped up in preparation for Halloween! The fifth graders took turns using toilet paper to turn each other into mummies. Earlier in the w...

Need a Creepy Crawler Catcher? Call Mrs. Szewczyk’s class! The fifth graders broke off into groups to create their own traps for creepy crawlers. This STEM activity had the student...

This past Thursday, the Ocean Gate PTO hosted a Halloween Dance for our students and their siblings. It was a night of scary costumes, great tunes, yummy treats, and fun games! Stu...

The third grade class took an adventure outdoors to find different parts of nature. They used objects like sticks, leaves, wood chips, and flowers to make patterns. What a creative...

For the past week, the 6th grade class was making costumes to represent idioms! Today they paraded to each classroom to teach the younger students about different idioms and their ...

Mrs. Szewczyk’s sixth grade science class took a trip down to the gym to build catapults! What a good way to learn about engineering, simple machines, and motion!

Today, our gym teacher, Mr. RJ, focused on teamwork to build the tallest tower using only tape, string, spaghetti, and marshmallows! This STEM activity helped the students have an ...

Special thanks to Stacie Gentile from the PTO and Seven Brew in Tom’s River for surprising our staff with donated coffees, energy drinks, and lemonade. We are all incredibly gratef...

Last night, families had a chance to connect with teachers, see the classrooms, and learn more about the year ahead! We are so grateful for our parents who came out and played a pa...