Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Indio

Infobox_School | name = Woodrow Wilson Middle School - Pre Law Magnet School


established = 1964
type = Public
principal = Harry Munoz
faculty =
current enrollment = 540
free_label = Colors
Mascot
free_text = Blue/Gold
Nomad
location = 83-501 Dillon Avenue,
Indio, CA 92201
information = [phone]
website =

Woodrow Wilson Middle School (WMS) - Pre Law Magnet School is a middle school (grades 6 to 8) in Indio, California in the Desert Sands Unified School District. The school was named for US President Woodrow Wilson and the first school year was 1964. They are the second oldest middle school after Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Indio in Indio. The official school mascot name is the "Nomads" to represent the area's seasonal economy and residents live in the Coachella Valley of the California Desert.

It was once the alternative middle school for all students residing in the eastern half of the Coachella Valley in the Desert Sands district zone (i.e. Bermuda Dunes, La Quinta and Palm Desert) north of Avenue 48 and west of Jefferson Street. This was the case until the 1980's when Palm Desert Middle School and later La Quinta Middle School opened its doors.

Currently 540 students (down from 800 students in 2004 and 1200 in year 2001), mainly residents of Indio, the northern section between Indio Blvd. and Interstate 10, and those from zip code 92203. The school boundaries shrank, changed and designed to accommodate certain sections of Indio. The city has three other middle schools: Thomas Jefferson Middle, Indio Middle School and John Glenn Middle School of International Studies.

About 90 percent of the school student body are Latino and over two-thirds live in lower-income working families, a dramatic shift in demographics took place in the 1970's to eventually complete in the late 1990's to make it a primarily Spanish-speaking school with classes to promote Hispanic/Mexican-American subjects such as culture and history of Mexico and Latin America.

Woodrow Wilson Middle School is a Pre Law Magnet School, the only one of its kind in the school district. The school provides all required classes that provide Math, English, Social Studies, Music (the Wilson Middle school band appears in the annual Indio National Date Festival parades every Feb.), P.E. including sports (softball, football, basketball, volleyball, and track & field) and several elective courses of various academic subjects.

The majority of their students attend Indio High School, but a certain percentage choose La Quinta and Palm Desert High Schools since these high schools ranked higher in state and federal academic standards.

In November 1993, Wilson Middle School students commemorated the 30th anniversary of their school by burial of a time capsule with articles and toys to represent the trends of 1994 and the time capsule will be opened in June 15, 2024.

External links

* [http://cms.dsusd.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=28 Woodrow Wilson Middle Pre Law Magnet School]
* [http://www.dsusd.us/DSUSD/Schools.aspx?ID=10 Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Desert Sands Unified School District web site]