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Rainbow Lake (New Jersey)

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Rainbow Lake, New Jersey
Rainbow Lake, New Jersey

Rainbow Lake is a residential lake, natural, spring-fed body of water, a private community and unincorporated area within Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, United States. The lake is used for many recreational activities, including: swimming, fishing, ice skating, and non-motor boating. The Lake has a sand beach and a floating dock, and which are used by most members of the lake, especially throughout the summer months. The Rainbow Lake Community Club (RLCC) runs a clubhouse available to all members of the lake, which provides a volleyball court, tennis court, and a playground, organizes many community activities, and hosts a bar for the adults every weekend. Rainbow Lake is a member of an athletic organization called Hub Lakes, which includes other local communities: Lake Valhalla, Lake Arrowhead, Estling Lake, Indian Lake, Lake Intervale, Mountain Lakes, Lake Parsippany, Cedar Lake, Rock Ridge, Lake Telemark, and White Meadow Lake. Hub Lakes provides competition between the lakes in bowling, diving, golf, horseshoes, roller hockey, softball, swimming, table tennis, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.

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Rainbow Lake (New Jersey)
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The Craig School

The Craig School is an independent, private coeducational day school located in Mountain Lakes and Montville, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in second through twelfth grades. In the 2015-16 school year, the Lower School (grades 2-8 in Mountain Lakes) had 109 students and the High School (grades 9-12 in Boonton) had 28 students. As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 122 students and 26.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 4.6:1. The school's student body was 79.5% (97) White, 9.0% (11) Hispanic, 5.7% (7) Black and 5.7% (7) Asian. The Lower School director is Janet Cozine, the High School director is Dr. Eric Caparulo, and Dr. Kara A. Loftin is the Head of School.The Craig School was founded in 1980. The school specializes in the education of children who have encountered difficulty succeeding in the traditional classroom environment. The Craig School specializes in students limited to dyslexia, auditory processing disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, using a language-based curriculum. The Craig High School was added in 2000. In 2013, The Craig High School moved to new shared facilities at the Boonton High School.In September 2015, the school acquired its current Lower and Middle School facilities, and administrative building, located in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, from The Wilson School (which is now defunct). Following the purchase, The Craig School will begin a renovation program on the Mountain Lakes facilities, including the expansion of the school's Orton Gillingham teaching wing for students with dyslexia and related academic learning disabilities, science lab and technology teaching areas and art studio space. A new state-of-the-art occupational therapy room is also in the preliminary plan. The renovation program, which will be managed to avoid operational disruption, is expected to be completed by September 2016.

Mountain Lakes, New Jersey
Mountain Lakes, New Jersey

Mountain Lakes is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, and a suburb of New York City. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 4,160, reflecting a decline of 96 (-2.3%) from the 4,256 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 409 (+10.6%) from the 3,847 counted in the 1990 Census.Originally a planned community, the borough was named for a pair of lakes which served to distinguish Mountain Lakes as "the first year-round residential lake community in northwestern New Jersey." Mountain Lakes was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 3, 1924, from portions of Boonton Township and Hanover Township, subject to the results of a referendum passed on April 29, 1924.The borough is one of the state's highest-income communities. In the 2014-2018 ACS, Mountain Lakes had a median household income of $216,250, ranked highest in the state, more than double the statewide median of $79,363.In 2010, Forbes.com listed Mountain Lakes as 210th in its listing of "America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes", with a median home price of $1,045,401.Mountain Lakes ranked among the highest annual property tax bills in New Jersey, and highest in Morris County, in 2018 of $20,471, compared to a statewide average of $8,767. New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Mountain Lakes as the 26th best place to live in New Jersey in its rankings of the "New Jersey's Top Towns 2011-2012" in New Jersey.Mountain Lakes station is the first train train station heading eastbound not concurrent with the nearby Morristown Line. NJ Transit offers service on the Montclair-Boonton Line.