Pacific Cascade Middle School
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| Pacific Cascade Middle School | |
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| 24635 SE Issaquah Fall City Road | |
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| Type | Public intermediate school |
| School district | Issaquah School District |
| Principal | Dana Bailey[1] |
| Faculty | 83[2] |
| Color(s) | Turquoise & Black |
| Mascot | Lynx |
| Website | School Website |
Pacific Cascade Middle School is a public secondary school for 6th through 8th grade students in the Issaquah School District of King County, Washington.
The school, which opened in 2005 as Issaquah 9th Grade Campus, is located on the Sammamish plateau in the city of Issaquah, Washington. From 2006 until 2010, the school was a freshman-only high school called Pacific Cascade Freshman Campus which fed from rival high schools Skyline and Issaquah. Dana Bailey has been the Principal of the school since its founding. In the fall of 2010, Pacific Cascade became a middle school enrolling grades 6 through 8.[3] It become one of the 5 middle schools in Issaquah School District. At that time, the high schools (Skyline & Issaquah) expanded to grades 9 through 12.
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[edit] Building
The facility was built in less than a year at a cost of approximately $26 million. Ground was broken on July 2, 2004,[4] and the buildings were ready by the start of the 2005-06 school year[citation needed]. Construction was not fully completed when the school opened.[5] In its first year the school held about 1,000 freshman students.[citation needed]. The school was designed by Bassetti Architects to accommodate future conversion to a middle school.[6]
[edit] Clubs
[edit] Math Club
The PCMS Math club 8th grade team got 6th place in the Washington State Math Championship 2011 held in Blaine, Washington.[7] That same year, 7th Grade team placed 13th. [8]
[edit] Geography Bee
In 2011, PCMS qualified in the top 100 in Washington state at the 2011 National Geographic Washington State Bee in Pacific Lutheran University. PCMS later advanced to the top 15 schools in the competition
[edit] National Junior Honor Society
PCMS is part of the NJHS national organization
[edit] References
- ^ Pacific Cascade Freshman Campus
- ^ Personnel Directory
- ^ Issaquah School District E-News, Friday 12 Sep 2008
- ^ Reed Construction Data
- ^ http://www.issaquah.wednet.edu/documents/capitalprojects/CP8-05.pdf
- ^ http://www.bassettiarch.com/projects/pacificcascade.html
- ^ WSMC 2011 8th Grade Team Results
- ^ WSMC 2011 7th Grade Team Results
[edit] External links
- Pacific Cascade Freshman Campus website
- Issaquah School District website
- Seattle Times Article, July 8th 2006
- Snoqualmie Valley Public Schools article
- Principalspartnership.org
- Issaquah SD construction photos 2005-08
- Issaquah SD post-construction 2005-10
