EAGLEVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL

'Eagleview Middle School' (commonly abbreviated 'EMS' or referred to simply as 'Eagleview') is a middle school located in northwestern Colorado Springs, Colorado serving grades 6 through 8. The school is one of the middle schools in Academy School District 20 (the others being Challenger Middle School, Mountain Ridge Middle School, and Timberview Middle School) and primarily serves students in northwestern Colorado Springs, even though students living elsewhere in the district can choose to attend Eagleview should their assigned schools not fit their needs. Eagleview's school colors are gray and burgundy while its mascot is the eagle. It had 1,109 enrolled students during the 2003-2004 school year and feeds into Air Academy High School.

Contents

Administration

Classes

Core classes

Exploratories

Extracurricular activities

Honor rolls

Achievements

References

See also

External links

Administration

The administration at Eagleview Middle School consists of three principals, each running a grade level. They rotate as the classes move up in grade.

Classes

Classes begin at 7:50 a.m. and end at 2:45 p.m. There are two types of classes at Eagleview: 'core classes' and 'exploratories'.

Core classes

There are four core classes every student is required to take at every grade level:

★ Language arts

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★ Greek mythology and literature (6th)

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★ Literature and grammar (7th)

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★ Literature and extensive grammar (8th)

★ Mathematics (classes vary on ability)

★ Science

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★ Earth and life sciences (6th)

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★ Biology (7th)

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★ Physical science (8th)

★ Social studies

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★ Worldwide issues and society (6th)

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★ Eastern Hemisphere (7th)

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★ American history (8th)

Exploratories

"Exploratories," as they are referred to at Eagleview Middle School, consist of two classes that students take at times during the day. Exploratories cover a variety of topics, including art, drama, foreign languages (Spanish or French), industrial technology, music, physical education, publication, and home economics.
Eighth graders can choose to take assistant exploratories in which they can choose to help staff members in the attendance office, counseling office, severe/special needs (SSN) area, or in the adjacent preschool.

Extracurricular activities

Students can participate in a variety of activities before and after school, including athletics and academic competitions. Eagleview offers basketball, football, softball, track, cross country running, volleyball, wrestling, and tennis. All sports are coached by teachers.
Academic extracurricular activities are also offered at Eagleview. Among them are forensics, Science Olympiad, MathCounts, and occasional spelling bee practices.

Honor rolls

There are three honor rolls: the Principal's Honor Roll, Merit Honor Roll, and Honorable Mention Honor Roll. Each are published in the monthly school newsletter (which up until the 2005-2006 school year was distributed throughout the school; it is now entirely Web-based in Portable Document Format).

Achievements

★ Eagleview Middle School has consistently been one of the top-performing schools on the Colorado Student Assessment Program, scoring excellent for the years 2003-04^[1] and 2005-06.^[2]

★ The school has achieved notability in Colorado for winning the 2006 Colorado Science Olympiad competition, held at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. It defeated the second place team by 75 points with a final score of 105 and placing first in three events (Compute This, Experimental Design, Meteorology), second in five events, and third in three. The school's team participated in the national competition at the Indiana University Bloomington on May 20, 2006."2005 – 2006 Annual Report Eagleview Middle School", Academy School District 20

★ In recent years Eagleview has competed excellently in the Pikes Peak Chapter of the Colorado MathCounts competition. In 2004, the four-person team from the school placed second. In 2005 and 2006, the team placed first and third, respectively.

References

1. "Report card, Colorado state"
2. "Report card, Colorado state"

See also

★ Air Academy High School

External links

★ Eagleview Middle School (school site)

★ Eagleview Middle School Statistics 2003-2004 (National Center for Education Statistics)

★ Eagleview Middle School Library Catalog