Eagleview Middle School

Infobox School2 | name =Eagleview Middle School


motto ="On the Wings of Success"
established =1986
type =Public middle school
locale = Residential area
grades = 6-8
head_name =Principal
head = Dr. Karon Cofield
head_name2 =Assistant Principals
head2 = Jim Smith
Diane Wilborn
city =Colorado Springs, Colorado
state =Colorado
country =USA
students = 1,109 (2004)
faculty =67 (2004)
athletics =
school_colors = Burgundy, Gray
mascot = Eagle
website =http://academy.asd20.org/ems/

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, although students living elsewhere in the district can choose to attend Eagleview should their assigned schools not fit their needs. Eagleview's school colors are silver 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.

Extracurricular activities

Students can participate in a variety of activities before and after school, including athletics and academic competitions. Eagleview offers basketball, American 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 [ [http://reportcard.cde.state.co.us/reportcard/pdf/2004_1040_2358_M.pdf "Report card, Colorado state"] ] and 2005-06. [ [http://reportcard.cde.state.co.us/reportcard/pdf/2006_1040_2358_M.pdf "Report card, Colorado state"] ]
* 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. [http://galileo.asd20.org/schools/RTP/ems.pdf "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.Fact|date=April 2007

References

See also

* Air Academy High School

External links

* [http://academy.asd20.org/ems/ Eagleview Middle School] (school site)
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&InstName=Eagleview+Middle+School&ID=080192001402 Eagleview Middle School Statistics 2003-2004] (National Center for Education Statistics)
* [http://www.youseemore.com/academyschool/school.asp?schooltype=ms&branch=38 Eagleview Middle School Library Catalog]