Roxbury Receive National Recognition for Music Education Support
ROXBURY, NJ (May 22, 2025) – Roxbury Township Public Schools has been honored with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from The NAMM Foundation for their outstanding support and commitment to music education. Now in its 26th year, the Best Communities for Music Education designation is awarded to districts that demonstrate outstanding achievement for providing music access and education to all students.
Two awards are given each year: Best Communities for Music Education (BCME) for school districts and the Support Music Merit Award (SMMA) for individual school sites. Both reach K-12 schools and districts throughout the U.S. and offer opportunities to increase awareness and support for music programs. Over 1,000 districts and individual school sites (public, private, charter, parochial) were recognized for having the highest commitment to producing exceptional music programs.
Roxbury High School Tri-M Music Honor Society Co-Advisor Ryan Sweer shared the good news saying, “I am very excited to share with you that once again, Roxbury Public Schools has earned the national designation of a Best Community for Music Education by the NAMM foundation! To all of our administrators, thank you for the continued support in all we do in the music department at all levels to give students an amazing musical education. To my fellow colleagues, you are all awesome and our students are lucky to have such great music educators and role models in their lives. I also wanted to extend a special thanks to Krista Sweer, my Tri-M Co-Advisor who helped me complete the application, as well as Principal Bill Crispino for helping me to gather all of the data needed for this application while we were down a music supervisor - I know how busy you are and am appreciative of the extra time you took to help make this happen... THANK YOU!”
To qualify for the Best Communities designation, Roxbury Schools answered detailed questions about funding, graduation requirements, music class participation, instruction time, facilities, support for the music program and community music-making programs. Responses were verified by school officials and reviewed by Responses were verified by school officials and reviewed by the leading arts educational research firm, WolfBrown.
About The NAMM Foundation
The NAMM Foundation is the charitable arm of the National Association of Music Merchants, the global trade association for the music products industry. The foundation works to remove systemic barriers that limit access to music-making and career pathways in the music industry. By investing in bold ideas and innovative solutions, we strive to build inclusive and thriving musical communities. For more information about The NAMM Foundation, please visit www.nammfoundation.org.
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- BCME 2025 Logo
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