Miftaahul Uloom Academy

Miftaahul Uloom Academy
Location
501 15th St.
Union City, NJ 07087[1]
Information
Type Private
Established 1996
School district Union City, NJ
Principal Faatimah Yanes[2][3]
Faculty 28.0 (on FTE basis)[4]
Grades Pre-S to 12th grade
Enrollment 239 (as of 2015-16)[4]
Student to teacher ratio 15:1[4]
Color(s) Orange, Blue, White
Website Official website

Miftaahul Uloom Academy (translated: "The Key to Knowledge") is a private Islamic school in Union City, New Jersey.[5] The schools serves its students in Pre-School to 12th grade. As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 239 students.[6]

History

The school was started in 1992 as a cooperative home-schooling center at a residential building in Guttenberg, New Jersey. In 1996, it received 501 (c) 3 status in 1996 as a registered non-profit organization. In 2001 it moved to Union City, and in 2007 relocated to its current location at the corner of 15th Street and Bergenline Avenue.[1][3]

Extracurricular activities

In February 2011, a team of 11 students from Miftaahul Uloom Academy, under the supervision of coach Candice Elam, a social studies and religion teacher at the school, and coach Puya Nili, an attorney, took part in a competitive mock civil trial against students from three other Hudson County schools at the Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Courthouse. The academy made it to the semi-finals (having only made it to the quarter finals the previous year), and had faced Jersey City’s McNair Academic High School earlier in the day, then faced off against Bayonne High School. Initially, the jury had granted them the win, but the Miftaahul Uloom team placed second, after the judge made the final decision in favor of Bayonne.[3]

In 2015, the school again competed against McNair Academic High School and placed 2nd in the Semifinals.

In 2016 eighth-grader Nabil Ettayebi of Miftaahul Uloom Academy clinched the win by correctly spelling "braggadocio" at the 57th Annual Hudson County spelling bee. As the Hudson County spelling bee champion, Nabil then represented Miftaahul Uloom Academy in the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C.

Winner of 57th Hudson County Spelling Bee

Miftaahul Uloom offer after school enrichment activities like Karate, Mad Science, Cooking, sewing, Quran reading, after school tutoring, and SAT preparation to its students. During the day, students engage in extracurricular activities such as Mock Trial, Montessori Model United Nations, Future City Engineering Competition and are also part of the Beta Club Honor Society and Student Council.

In 2016 the Administration made a few bold decisions by Introducing Computer as a compulsory subject from 1st grade onward. It also introduced "Graphic Design", "Video Editing", "Robotics", "Geographic Information System (GIS)" , "3D Printing", "3D Rendering", "Virtual Reality System", "Web Designing" and "App Building" into the curriculum. The Academy also initiated a pilot project to evaluate the effects of Tablet based education system. By doing so, the administration reaffirmed its commitment towards technology as the most essential element. The objective is to create incentives for its students through issues faced as a result of such implementation and look for solution to these real world problems.

References

  1. 1 2 "About MUA NJ". Miftaahul Uloom Academy. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Faculty/Staff Listing". Miftaahul Uloom Academy. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  3. 1 2 Cullen, Deanna (February 20, 2011). "Kids in the courtroom Miftaahul Uloom: Academy wins second place in county mock trial". The Hudson Reporter. "A favorable decision by the jury initially granted a win to Miftaahul Uloom Academy, a parochial school based in Union City". Accessed April 28, 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 Miftaahul Uloom Academy, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 12, 2012.
  5. ↑ "About MUA". Miftaahul Uloom Academy. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  6. ↑ Miftaahul Uloom Academy, National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved April 12, 2012.

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