Glenridge Middle School

Glenridge Middle School (GMS) is a middle school located in the Baldwin Park area in Orlando, Florida and serves students from both Orlando and Winter Park. It is one of the few middle schools in Florida with an International Baccalaureate IB Middle Years Programme, or MYP (a precursor to the IB Diploma Programme available in 11th- and 12th-grade). The school's mascot is the lion.

The school was founded in the mid-1950s and has a current student body of approximately 1,300. GMS is a feeder school for Winter Park High School, or WPHS.

Glenridge's main middle school rival (both academically and athletically) is Maitland Middle School, which also feeds into WPHS.

Classes

The curriculum at Glenridge Middle consists of four core academic classes: Math, History, Language Arts, and Science. The math class that a student is in is determined by the student's current progress in the lineup of math classes a student can take. Students can then choose an elective of their choice to fill a fifth class space. This elective can be art, P.E., TV production, band, orchestra, chorus, or any of many other choices.

The remaining sixth class is then either filled by the IB Exploratory Wheel, for IB students, which will offer the student a different class every nine weeks for that period (often Spanish, or TV Production, Physical Education, and Technology). If the student is not part of the IB program, however, he/she will be offered another elective class of his/her choice. As of this year (2008-2009) there was an additional seventh period added which gave another elective to all students. There is also a home-room class on Wednesdays called "Lion-Time" in the mornings.

Students who scored either a 1 or 2 on FCAT reading are required to take a Reading course in exchange for one elective (for those scoring a "2"), or both (for those scoring a "1").