Arvida Middle School
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Arvida Middle School is a Blue Ribbon
middle school
in Miami, Florida
, USA, founded in 1975, that educates around 1,850 student
s in grades 6-8. The Principal since August 2006, who was promoted from Assistant Principal, is Nancy Aragon.
in 1997-98, the highest award that can be given to a US school.
The school has been described as "exemplifying a progressive commitment to recapturing traditional excellence and incorporating innovative approaches into the educational process".
The Global Academy, established in 2000-01, is an innovative academic program for gifted 6th graders. The program combines mandatory courses in Mathematics
, Language
Arts, Science
, and Geography
. Course work is cross-cutting in order to link and relate the subjects. The Global Academy continues into seventh grade Odyssey program, which now extends into eighth grade. Arvida has now created a new program, the Forensics/Performing Arts program which requires an art as an elective(such as drama), and has a Science based program. This was started in 2008, and extends to seventh and eighth grade, as well.
Blue Ribbon Schools Program
The Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a United States government program created in 1981 to honor schools which have achieved high levels of performance or significant improvements with emphasis on schools serving disadvantaged students. The program centers around a self-assessment conducted by the...
middle school
Middle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
, USA, founded in 1975, that educates around 1,850 student
Student
A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...
s in grades 6-8. The Principal since August 2006, who was promoted from Assistant Principal, is Nancy Aragon.
Academics
Arvida was recognized as a Blue Ribbon schoolBlue Ribbon Schools Program
The Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a United States government program created in 1981 to honor schools which have achieved high levels of performance or significant improvements with emphasis on schools serving disadvantaged students. The program centers around a self-assessment conducted by the...
in 1997-98, the highest award that can be given to a US school.
The school has been described as "exemplifying a progressive commitment to recapturing traditional excellence and incorporating innovative approaches into the educational process".
The Global Academy, established in 2000-01, is an innovative academic program for gifted 6th graders. The program combines mandatory courses in Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
Arts, Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, and Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
. Course work is cross-cutting in order to link and relate the subjects. The Global Academy continues into seventh grade Odyssey program, which now extends into eighth grade. Arvida has now created a new program, the Forensics/Performing Arts program which requires an art as an elective(such as drama), and has a Science based program. This was started in 2008, and extends to seventh and eighth grade, as well.
Student awards
- Ellen Holly Aldrich and Rachelle Hutchings, US National Award winners for class achievements in English, 1993
- Carlos Grenier, National GeographicNational Geographic SocietyThe National Geographic Society , headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical...
Bee, Florida champion 1997
Notable alumni
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, actress on the popular Television series NCISNCIS (TV series)NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S... - Stephen TullochStephen TullochStephen Michael Tulloch is an American football linebacker for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft, with the 116th overall pick by the Tennessee Titans...
, linebacker for the NFL team Detroit LionsDetroit LionsThe Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...