Our school is a community of administrators, teachers, staff, and parents who are working together to provide a challenging, positive, creative environment for our students. By working together we can reach our vision of high expectations for every student. Our goal is to create a strong base of academic learning and enrichment that will guide our students through their many life experiences. We believe that middle school is an exciting time, a time of challenges and learning about each other and ourselves. We are dedicated to providing those challenges and also to meet the challenges together. We are excited to have the opportunity to get to know you and to make you part of our middle school family.
Mr. Porrazzo
Principal
District Core Commitments
We believe it is important for students, staff, parents, and the community to work together to make sure that we pass on knowledge, wisdom, values, and beliefs from one generation to another. To that end, we have established a series of broad priorities. These commitments are intended to guide the strategic direction, budgetary priorities, and decisions at the district, school, and classroom levels.
- Core Commitment 1: Fiscal Responsibility - Our fiscal resources are purposefully targeted to maintain and enhance a high-quality education and the core values of the school community.
- Core Commitment 2: Proficient Students – All students demonstrate their proficiency in reading, writing, speaking, mathematics, problem solving, critical thinking, and technology, as well as the knowledge and skills necessary for success in post-secondary education, careers, and citizenship within a knowledge-based society.
- Core Commitment 3: Rigorous Curriculum – Our students are challenged by and engaged in a rigorous curriculum with academic, career, fine art, and co-curricular learning experiences.
- Core Commitment 4: Highly Effective Educators - Our students are instructed by highly-effective educators who regularly collaborate to adjust and refine their instructional practices based on student needs.
- Core Commitment 5: Use of Data – our educators and community use data and student assessment information purposefully to make informed decisions at the classroom, department, school, and district level.
- Core Commitment 6: Personalized Learning Environments - Our students are educated in a personalized learning environment that support each student’s academic, career, and personal growth and that maintains a small school culture in which each student is known well by an adult.
- Core Commitment 7: Partnerships - Our teachers, staff, and administrators involve our parents and the community as partners in the development of students’ proficiency and effectively engage with parents in two-way communication regarding student learning.