Prairie Middle School

Prairie Middle School is a school located in Aurora, Colorado. It is the largest middle school in Colorado. Its mascot is the hawk. Its motto is "Diversity is our strength". Also, Roberta Ford, 1990 teacher of the year came to Prairie Middle School. Dr. Kandy Cassaday, the principal presently is demonstrating our schools students greatly. Prairie's school schedule consists of 9 periods. 6th graders have one elective and 1 access at the end of every day. They also have 90 minutes of math every day. 7th and 8th graders, however, have 2 electives. Mondays and Wednesdays are called blue days. Tuesdays and Thursdays are called green days. Fridays are called hawk days. On blue and green days, students will go to different classes for 90 minutes each. On Fridays they go to all of their classes for 45 minutes except for 6th graders in math. In addition to those classes, all students take S.S.R. everyday for 30 minutes. (Sustained Silent Reading). Also, Prairie is divided into 3 communities. 1, 2, and 3. Each community consists of 5 teams of about 120 student each. Also, each community has all grades. The electives offered at Prairie include:Band,Strings,Choir,Keyboard Music,French 1 & 2,Science Inquiry,Spanish 1,2, and Native Speakers,P.E. and Wellness,Art,Leadership in the 21st Century,Advancement Via Individual Determination (A.V.I.D), andStudent Assistant.