Countryside Middle School



Teachers:
Nate Meyer
Michelle O’Brien
Marty Stambaugh
Natalya Zielnicki
Nate Meyer

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Countryside's Middle school, consisting of grades 6-8, currently has 59 students. The average class size is 8-15 students. The Middle School program includes several long-term projects, with an emphasis on learning how to do research and learn new material. A focus is also placed on time management and study skills. There are four multi-age homerooms, each led by one of our Middle School teachers.   Students rotate to classrooms for different subjects.

Literature/Writing (English), Science, Social Studies, World Language, and Math classes meet daily. Math is taught by ability level.

Currently, Middle School students are given the choice of studying Beginning Spanish, Intermediate Spanish, Beginning Chinese, or Intermediate Latin.

Other opportunities offered are Math Counts, Odyssey of the Mind, and Science Olympiad.

Physical Education class is offered three times weekly, and Music class is scheduled twice weekly. Students also experience a trimester each of Art, Study Skills, and Performing Arts.

After school activities include competitive team sports (girls volleyball, co-ed soccer, girls basketball and boys basketball) a chess team, chorus, and a school band.

Countryside also facilitates Middle School peer advisory groups to encourage the students to reach out and support one another.  Middle School students also go on an annual overnight camping trip.  The camping trip usually takes place at the end of September or early October.
The students plan all aspects of the camping trip, including equipment, food, and activities. Through team activities and nature students, students and teachers are able to bond as a group. 

And what Middle School would be complete without a school dance?  Countryside has two Middle School dances (for Countryside students).  We also have plays, musicals and a talent show, ensuring a variety of outlets and activities for all Middle School students.