Colina Middle School

Colina Middle School
Address
1500 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
Information
Motto	"Work Hard, Make Friends, and Have Fun"
School district	Conejo Valley Unified School District
Dean	Kim Stephenson
Principal	Shane Frank
Asst. Principal	James Baird
Grades	6-8
Color(s)	Royal Blue, Orange, and White
Mascot	Colina Cougar
Rival	Los Cerritos Middle School Redwood Middle School
Feeder to	Westlake High School
Alumni	Hailee Steinfeld
Website	School Website

Colina Middle School is a public middle school located in Thousand Oaks, California, United States, part of the Conejo Valley Unified School District. The motto is "Work Hard, Make Friends, and Have Fun." Colina was designated a California Distinguished School in 1989 and in 2000, and as a National Blue Ribbon School in 2002. School mascot is the Colina Cougar. School colors are Royal Blue, Orange, and White.

Shane Frank is principal of the school, James Baird is assistant principal, Kim Stephenson is dean; Dave Holmboe and Jeanne Boe are counselors.

Colina Middle School teaches students in grades 6–8. Classes include English, social science, mathematics, science and English as a second language. Electives include economics, exploratory electives, art, computing, woodshop, drama, jazz band, beginning, intermediate, concert and symphonic band, orchestra, and choir. Other activities include ASB (associated student body), PTSA (Parent Teacher Student Association, of which students can be involved in), a lunch-time student congress, lunch-time sports, and a before-school leadership class supervised by the principal.

Colina Middle School is the primary feeder to Westlake High School

Before-school bees (only some now due to budget cuts) include spelling, history, geography, science, music, Spanish, language, mathematics, and vocabulary. With the exception of spelling and geography, all bees are multi-media PowerPoint presentations hosted and created by school counselor, Sam Kane.

Events and fund-raisers include a magazine drive, a turkey trot running race of qualifying students, a 5 kilometres (3 mi) run, a rabbit run race for qualifying students, COTY (class of the year) dress-up days, and "We the People", a program that helps eight-grade students learn through stating their views about different topics relating to the Constitution.

Colina's unofficial rival schools include Los Cerritos Middle School and Redwood Middle School.

External links

• School website