Lawrence Middle School

Lawrence Middle School is a junior high school for students in grades 7 and 8 in Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA. It is located adjacent to Lawrence High School. The school is the only junior high school in the Lawrence Township Public Schools.

Awards and recognition

For the 1999-2000 school year, Lawrence Middle School was named a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the second highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve.

Athletics

Lawrence Middle School's mascot is the cardinal.

In both the 2005-2006 and 2009-2010 seasons, the LMS wresting team took first place in the Mercer County Middle School Wrestling Tournament.

Controversy

Lawrence Middle School was in the media in the midst of a scandal about bathroom pass policies in 2004. The school was mentioned on major news networks, and was used in a joke on the hit NBC late night show, Saturday Night Live, in which Tina Fey said: "A controversial new discipline policy at Lawrence Middle School in New Jersey is limiting students to just 15 bathroom breaks a month."

The bathroom pass scandal was the result of administration trying to make the school safer. Taking the bathroom pass policies from the Lawrence High School, which allowed students only 15 trips to the bathroom, administration felt they would be able to limit the amount of bomb threat pranks the school had. The Lawrence Middle School is known for its unusually high amount of bomb threats, a problem which has not transferred to the Lawrence High School.^{[citation needed]}