Don Mills Middle School is a middle school

Middle school

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 in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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. It is located near the intersection Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue

Lawrence Avenue

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. The school was known as Don Mills Junior High until 1986.

DMMS shares its building with Don Mills Collegiate Institute

Don Mills Collegiate Institute

Don Mills Collegiate Institute is a high school in the community of Don Mills in Toronto. It serves an ethnically diverse student population of approximately 1000. As of 2006, 66% of students speak a first language other than English...

, a high school

High school

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, although they have different street addresses. The two schools share a library and all of its resources (book

Book

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s, video

Video

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s and computer

Computer

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s), but no other rooms.

Programs and activities

There happen to be many educational programs and co-curricular activities offered at Don Mills Middle School. Those programs include band, yearbook club, scrapbooking, tutoring (being a tutor or having one) and many others which students take part in.

At the middle school, teachers generously donate their own time to coaching sports teams. The sports include boy's and girls soccer, football, volleyball, cross country, track and field, swimming, basketball, badmintion, tennis.

The CyberARTS program is open to students from outside school boundaries and promotes the integration of literacy, numeracy and the arts. The students can apply for grade seven and eight CyberART classes, but are not guaranteed to be pick out of the many applicants.

Honor and merit rolls

Don Mills Middle School has an honor and merit roll assembly each term, to recognize the students who achieved average grades over 75.5%, which is a potential Merit roll, and over 79.5%, which is a potential Honor Roll. A final Principal's Honor Roll, which is an average over 89%, which is quite hard to achieve.