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Issaquah Middle School (IMS)
File:Issaquah Middle School (IMS) picture.jpg
Location
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Information
TypePublic intermediate school
School districtIssaquah School District
PrincipalSeth Adams[1]
Faculty69[4]
Number of students605
Color(s)Maroon and Grey[3]   
MascotPanther[2]
Websitehttp://www.ims.issaquah.wednet.edu/

Issaquah Middle School (IMS) is a school serving students in grades 6-8 in Issaquah, Washington and Bellevue, Washington. IMS is a part of the Issaquah School District. Located in the vicinity of Issaquah Middle School is the Issaquah Community Center and Issaquah Creek, as well as the older portion of downtown Issaquah on Front Street.[5] Students at Issaquah Middle School feed in from Cougar Ridge Elementary, Clark Elementary, and Issaquah Valley Elementary. It is also part of the KING-5 TV weather network giving weather data to the city of Issaquah.

History

Issaquah Middle School was constructed as the first middle school of the Issaquah School District and opened with the name Issaquah Junior High School in 1955[6] following a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck the greater Puget Sound region on April 29, 1965.[7] About thirty years later, the school was remodeled for two years of "live-in, learn-in" conditions.[8] The remodel was completed in 1999.

Academics

Roughly a third of the teachers at Issaquah Middle have 1 to 5 years of teaching experience with 71 percent of the teachers holding Master's and Ph.D degrees. Issaquah Middle School offers an ESL Program for which 23 students are enrolled (as of 2008); and a special education program for which 80 students are enrolled (as of 2008).[9] Issaquah Middle also offers high school credit foreign language classes and high school credit mathematics classes. Issaquah Middle School has also introduced SmartBoards to a majority of the classrooms as well as LCD projectors and document cameras.

Student life

As of 2008, Issaquah Middle School has a WEB "Where Everybody Belongs" program which assists incoming sixth graders to adjust to the new environment of middle school. Since 2005, the school is involved in the Green Schools Program (Level 3) of King County, Washington which was adopted by the Issaquah School District to reduce outgoing waste from the school by increasing recycling and decreasing the usage of the garbage dumpster. Specifically, Issaquah Middle decreased its collection frequency/size of garbage dumpster saving nearly $17,000 when combined with the totals of the four other middle schools in the Issaquah School District.[10]

Sports, Arts and Extracurricular Activities

Issaquah Middle School has two sports teams which include basketball (co-ed), cross country (co-ed), softball (co-ed), wrestling for boys (and girls with special permission), track (co-ed), and volleyball (girls).[11] Track is the main sporting event and the school has earned a number of trophies over the years. The school also offers fine arts programs (electives) which include band, choir, orchestra, drama, photography, drawing-painting, ceramics, mixed Media Art, and Graphic design. Members of the IMS band, chorus, and orchestra travel biennially to Silverwood for a recording session, as well as public performance. All levels of the Band, Orchestra, and Choir programs have three concerts, as well as traveling to an annual festival in Spokane, Washington, to compete with other schools (this is only for the intermediate and advanced music programs).[12] Extracurricular (after school) activities offered include Jazz Band, Chess club, National Junior Honor Society (abv. NJHS), Math Olympiad, Geography Club, Robotics, Homework Club, Craft Club, and Jazz Band.

PTSA

Issaquah Middle School's PTSA has provided the school with more than $15,000 in teacher grants, scholarships, Smartboards in classrooms and the annual eighth grade trip to the Junior Achievement Financial Park in which students learn real-world skills.[13] The PTSA also provides the school with numerous hours of volunteering at school activities and services. An example of the volunteer work is the Walk About program. It is the first kind of program in the district containing nearly 120 parent volunteers who provide adult supervision on campus grounds before school, during lunches, and at the end of the school day.[14]

WASL Test Results

Below is a link to view the latest Measurement of Student Progress (MSP) test information for Issaquah Middle School.

http://www.greatschools.org/washington/issaquah/759-Issaquah-Middle-School/quality/

References

  1. ^ http://connect.issaquah.wednet.edu/middle/ims/staff/p/ims-administration-and-office-staff.aspx
  2. ^ http://www.ims.issaquah.wednet.edu/
  3. ^ http://www.ims.issaquah.wednet.edu/
  4. ^ http://connect.issaquah.wednet.edu/cfs-file.ashx/__key/telligent-evolution-components-attachments/13-15107-00-00-00-13-98-65/1-8-Staff-List-14-15.doc
  5. ^ http://www.issaquah.wednet.edu/schools/school.asp?school=ims[dead link]
  6. ^ http://www.issaquah.wednet.edu/schools/School.aspx?loc=ims&dord=225
  7. ^ http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/1965_04_29.php
  8. ^ http://www.issaquah.wednet.edu/schools/school.asp?school=ims[dead link]
  9. ^ http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/schoolguide/profile.php?results=&building_id=3038&search=[dead link]
  10. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20080325045538/http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/greenschools/issaquah-school-district.asp[dead link]
  11. ^ http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/schoolguide/profile.php?results=&building_id=3038&search=[dead link]
  12. ^ http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/schoolguide/profile.php?results=&building_id=3038&search=[dead link]
  13. ^ http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/schoolguide/profile.php?results=&building_id=3038&search=[dead link]
  14. ^ http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/schoolguide/profile.php?results=&building_id=3038&search=[dead link]

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