Ammons Middle School

Infobox Secondary school
name = Herbert A. Ammons Middle School

district = Miami-Dade County Public Schools
principal = Irwin N. Adler
type = Public
established = September 1997 at Hammocks Middle School, moved to current location in September 1998.
city = Miami
state = Florida
country = USA
grades = 6-8
enrollment = 1,159 students (2006-2007 school year)
campus = all portables
free_label_1 = School hours
free_1 = 9:00–3:40
mascot = Eagle
colors = Blue and gold
website = [http://ammons.dadeschools.net ammons.dadeschools.net]

Herbert A. Ammons Middle School is a magnet school, in Miami, Florida in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district. Ammons has a student body selected from throughout Miami-Dade county.

In March 2007, Ammons Middle School became the first officially authorized International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme school-wide program in the Miami-Dade County Public School System and Miami-Dade County. Ammons currently offers a full Middle Years Programme curriculum to students in grades 6, 7, and 8. [ [http://www.ibo.org/school/002526/ Herbert A. Ammons Middle School] , International Baccalaureate Organization. Accessed August 8, 2007.]

Ammons Middle School has achieved a Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) grade of "A" for 7 years in a row, and is currently aiming for its 8th year in a row. The current principal is Mr. Irwin N. Adler.

Ammons Middle School operates on a daily 4 by 4 (4x4) block schedule with classing alternating every other day between even and odd numbered periods. The school also requires every student grade 6-8 to take a semester (half-year) course of physical education and a semester course of a technology class, as part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme curriculum. Students are required to do an IB portfolio in order to get their IB certificate.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

*No Child Left Behind 2004-2005; 2005-2006
*FCAT A+ school for 6 years in a row
*Magnet Schools of America Award 2001-2005. [ [http://www.magnet.edu/modules/content/index.php?id=20 Schools of Merit - 2001] , Magnet Schools of America. Accessed August 8, 2007.] [ [http://www.magnet.edu/modules/content/index.php?id=18 Schools of Excellence - 2002] , Magnet Schools of America. Accessed August 8, 2007.] [ [http://www.magnet.edu/modules/content/index.php?id=15 Schools of Excellence - 2003] , Magnet Schools of America. Accessed August 8, 2007.] [ [http://www.magnet.edu/modules/content/index.php?id=13 Schools of Distinction - 2004] , Magnet Schools of America. Accessed August 8, 2007.] [ [http://www.magnet.edu/modules/content/index.php?id=41 2005 Schools of Distinction] , Magnet Schools of America. Accessed August 8, 2007.]
*Highest Percentage Attendance Award 2000-2006
*One of the "100 Top Wired Schools" in the United States by "Family PC" magazine in 2001.
*Irwin Adler, 2003 Innovative Principal of the Year. [http://www.fcitl.org/successStories/AdlerProfile.asp FCITL Awards: Innovative Principal of the Year - Winner 2003] , Florida Council of Instructional Technology Leaders. Accessed August 8, 2007. "Perhaps Mr. Adler's best confirmation of his school's technology vision is the honor his school received when it was named one of FamilyPC Magazines “100 Top Wired Schools.” Selection for this award was not based solely on the presence of technology at a school site, but the total integration of technology. Schools selected for this honor had a school-wide technology plan that provided opportunities for teacher training, adequate funds for technology purchase and implementation, and improvements in the home to school connection."]
*Principal Irwin Adler received the Florida Top Technology Educator Award for 2004-2005

References

External links

* http://ammons.dadeschools.net
* [http://www2.dadeschools.net/schools/schoolinformation/school_details.asp?id=6001|Ammons Profile]