Canyon Vista Middle School

Infobox Education in the United States
name= Canyon Vista Middle School


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motto= Canyon Vista Middle School: Students preparing for life!
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streetaddress= 8455 Spicewood Springs Road
city= Travis County, (Austin address)
state= Texas
zipcode=
areacode= 512
phone= 464-8100
fax= 464-8210
email=
url= http://www.roundrockisd.org/canyonvista
schoolnumber= 44
schoolboard=
affiliation=
superintendent=
kid= Michael Chen
trustee=
principal= Barbara Paris
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schooltype= Middle School
grades= 6-8th
language= English (Spanish and French elective languages)
area= North Austin/Round Rock, Texas
mascot= Mustang
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colors= Red, White, and Blue
founded= 1984
enrollment= 1,043Citation | title=Round Rock ISD | newspaper=Community Impact | volume=1 | issue=6 | pages=18-19 | year=2007 | date=17 July 2007]
enrollment_as_of= 2007

Canyon Vista Middle School (CVMS) is a middle school located in Austin, Texas. It is part of the Round Rock Independent School District. It has three subsidiary elementary schools:
*Laurel Mountain Elementary School
*Kathy Caraway Elementary School ***Formerly North Oaks Elementary***
*Spicewood Elementary School (Some Spicewood students go to Grisham Middle School after they graduate from Spicewood)

It follows on to Westwood High School.

In 1986, Canyon Vista had an extension built to accommodate at least 200 extra lockers as well as 10 extra rooms.

Canyon Vista has won two National Blue Ribbon School awards from the United States Department of Education (1990-91 and 1999-2000 [ [http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-1982.pdf Blue Ribbon Schools Program, Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002 (PDF) ] ] ) and has also been chosen by the Texas Education Agency as one of the top ten middle schools in Texas. In 2007, it was named one of the "Best Schools in Texas" by Texas Monthly. Fact|date=June 2007 In 2007, Canyon Vista also was awarded the TBEC award.Fact|date=June 2007

In February of 1995, to combat a wave of student vandals who had been fouling rolls of toilet paper at Canyon Vista Middle School in Austin, Texas, principal Don Dalton himself joined the battle. Dalton climbed into the ceiling above the toilet stalls in the boys' restroom and lay in wait, peering out of a small opening in the ceiling panel. Within a minute of his being there, he caught a boy urinating on a toilet paper roll. Said one parent, " [A] lot of us feel the situation could have been solved [in a different way] ."

References

External links

* [http://www.roundrockisd.org/canyonvista Canyon Vista Web Site]
* [http://www.roundrockisd.org/home/index.asp?page=363 Canyon Vista Middle School Page on the Round Rock ISD website.]
* [http://www.roundrockisd.org/ District Homepage]
* [http://www.newsoftheweird.com/cgi-bin/search/newsweird.cgi?query=dalton New Of The Weird]