Minneapolis Public Schools is developing a new middle school at the Ramsey building. This is an exciting opportunity to create an innovative, urban learning experience for students who live in the Lyndale Community School and Burroughs Community School attendance areas. The new middle school will start with approximately 170-220 sixth graders in 2012-2013 and add subsequent grades each year. Students at Hale/Field Community School and Green Central Community School also have the option to request the new middle school based on space availability.
The Board of Education approved a start-up budget, in addition to the standard per student allocation, which will allow the new middle school to provide a full complement of coursework including languages, electives, English Language Learner and autism programs and after-school activities.
Program Development Components:
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Family Network established to inform and participate in new school development
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Inclusion of adolescents in planning process
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Academic program based in research and theory on adolescent motivation for learning
-          Principal and staff hired who are passionate about teaching middle grades and highly qualified in disciplinary literacies, focused instruction and pedagogies for learning 21st century skills
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Cohort of students move together to high school providing consistency in social, emotional and academic development
You can find more information here: http://schoolchoice.mpls.k12.mn.us/ramsey_middle_school.html