Original article by Faith Ballantine-Armonaitis of TAPinto. Found HERE.
Published March 3, 2026
WOOD-RIDGE, NJ — The Wood-Ridge Board of Education honored its December and January Students of the Month at the February 26 meeting. The meeting was rescheduled from Monday due to the blizzard.
Each school administrator announced the student honorees from their building and posed for photos with the children for their parents.
Catherine E. Doyle School was presented by Principal Lara Schmitt, who recognized students who are musicians (December) and computer scientists (January.)
December:
K: Riley Horowitz
1st: Abigail Mucha
2nd: Kiansh Gupta
3rd: Bella Velazquez
4th: Sofia Squeo
January:
K: Jayden McCullough
1st: Thiago Camelo Moreno
2nd: Tenzin Phuntsock
3rd: Roslyn Zoller
4th: Markiian Bezkorovainyi
Wood-Ridge Intermediate School students were presented by Principal Ryan Ann Guglielmotti.
December:
5th: Abigail Garcia
6th: Dallas Cefelli
Arts and Athletics: Kaiden Sylvain
January:
5th: Nermina Lekic
6th: Sparsh Gupta
Arts and Athletics: Damola Famuyide
Wood-Ridge Junior/Senior High School was presented by Principal Silvia Raguseo-Ruiz.
December:
7th: Angelina Schreiber
8th: Milan Vargas
9th: Ethan Montero
10th: Brooke Bozewski
11th: Devin Gravina
12th: Na’Daniel Arnone
January:
7th: Christopher Kennedy
8th: Dianita Ramirez Balbuena
9th: Joseph Boccassini
10th: Yara Abbas
11th: Ava Somick
12th: Isabella Rossi