Enrollment in Island public schools has remained relatively steady this year, the recent annual school census shows, with Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury showing slight growth and the high schooling showing a slight drop. The school census is conducted every year on Oct. 1.

Mornings at Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School begin just as they did 19 years ago when the doors first opened. The whole school, including teachers, administrators and students from high school to kindergarten, sits together on the floor of the hallway, a stretch everyone calls Main street.

Students in the up-Island school district will be given more free rein in the near future on choosing which school to attend, the district committee decided this week.

On Friday night, Donald Herman stood cooly on the sidelines along with his players preparing for his final game after 28 years as head football coach on the Vineyard.

Thirty-seven of the 65 living members of the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School graduating class of 1965 attended their 50th reunion on the weekend of Sept. 26 and 27.

Next month a group of Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter high school students will embark on a 10-day voyage to Paris, France, to attend one of the largest climate events of this decade, the United Nations 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21).