history

The Marine Academy was established in 1981 as a part-time program that served an inaugural class of 53 students who attended their home high schools in the morning. The school has since evolved into a full-time diploma-granting program.

Location and Campus

The MAST campus is located in the Fort Hancock Historic District as part of the Sandy Hook Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area. The school is adjacent to Sandy Hook Lighthouse, the nation's oldest operating lighthouse, and within walking distance of several beaches.

The campus includes 13 newly renovated buildings and various laboratories dedicated to marine biology, marine chemistry, oceanography, CAD and multi-media.The buildings were formerly the mess hall and latrines for the "tent city" that Fort Hannock was set up for a time during World War II.

reward

For the 1997-1998 and 2013 school years, Marin Academy of Science and Technology received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor an American school can achieve.

In its inaugural year of 1993-94 MAST was one of two high schools recognized by New Jersey's "Star Schools" program. MAST has twice been honored with the New Jersey Department of Education's highest recognition for New Jersey schools, in both 1997-98 and 2003-04.

For the 1998-1999 school year, MAST received additional national recognition as a New American High School.

Best Practice Award (1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003)