Although “Pippin” takes place in a time of kings and court jesters, its message could not be more relevant today. So says Rye High School Musical Director Michael Limone, and for students, it’s the perfect coming-of-age vehicle for dealing with the perception that everyone must be extraordinary.

One of Pat Rinello’s instructions to students in her theater class was, “You have to know what kind of personality you had before you turned into a spoon or a knife.” Who else but the Rye Neck District’s longtime theater arts director could utter those words? This spring Rye Neck High is taking on its biggest musical challenge, in a sold-out production of “Beauty and the Beast” March 15-17. 

During the first weekend of February, the Rye Country Day Physics team participated in the 2012 Invitational Young Physicists Tournament in Oakridge, Tennessee. The tournament consisted of a series of “physics fights”, in which each team presented detailed, theoretical, and experimental solutions to three problems and debated presenters from other teams on the problems. Competing teams came from California, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, and China.

Since 2007, the achievement gap between special and general education students at the Middle School has increased by 50%.

NASA’s space program may have lost some lift-off over the past few decades, but for the kindergarten class at Resurrection School their recent Blast Off Day celebration was hugely exciting.

Rye Neck High School sophomores Luke Murphy and Annabel Gutterman, along with teammate Lara Cohen, a junior at Blind Brook High, have been selected to attend the Students Inside Albany program.

Rye Neck elementary school students have been seeing the world without boarding yellow school buses, getting permission slips signed, or stepping a foot outside their classrooms. Instead, the students at F.E. Bellows have been connecting with their international peers via videoconferencing and Skype.