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Middle School Profile (as of Aug. 22, 2011)
Teachers:
6 full-time teachers, 15 specialist teachers
Classes:
For the 2011-2012 school year there are two classes of each of the
grade 6, 7 and 8th grades.
Students:
86 students from grades 6-8. There are 45 boys and 41 girls
representing 14 nationalities (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany,
Holland, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden,
Switzerland, U.K., and the U.S.)
Schedule:
The NIS middle school starts at 8:30 am and finishes at 3:15 on Monday,
Tuesday, Thusday and Friday and at 2:00 on w Wednesday. A six-day
schedule (A-F) rotates within a 5-day week. Students alternate on block
schedules, with longer periods for integrated core-curricular classes
rotating from the morning and afternoon, every other day. The students
may have a combined math/science class in the morning, followed by a
social studies/language arts class in the afternoon on one day, and
then flip to have the math/science in the afternoon the next day.
Students are required to take Japanese as their foreign language, in
addition to courses in the fine arts, health, and PE.
Admission:
To enroll in the 6th grade for the 2011-12 school year students must
have turned 11 years old by August 31, 2011 (born between Sept.1,
1999-Aug. 31, 2000). To enroll in the 7th grade, students must have
turned 12 years old by August 31, 2011, and 13 years old for 8th
grade.
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