 Worthington Middle School
Ms. Patricia Magwire, Principal
1401 North Crailsheim Road
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Class Hours: 8:00 a.m to 2:55 p.m.
Office Hours: 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Grades 6 to 8
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The Middle School Philosophy is fully implemented at Worthington Middle School when it changed from a grades 7-9 Junior High to a grades 6-8 Middle School. As a Middle School, the staff is committed to preparing early adolescents by guiding and supporting their academic, physical, emotional and social development.
Built in 1981, Worthington Middle School received a six-classroom addition what was finished in February 2000 and fully used for the 2001-2002 school year. The Middle School is a one story, steel frame, masonary designed exterior building with 105,000 square feet of space. It has regular classrooms, special education classrooms, a media center,
laboratory classrooms, music rehearsal classrooms, gymnasium-locker-rooms, cafeteria food
service area, student personal locker area, and offices. It is located on the NW side of
Worthington
Interdisciplinary teaming is the basic component of a Middle School. Interdisciplinary teaming means groups of teachers – two to five – share the same part of the building and are grouped according to different subject areas: language arts, reading, special education, math, social studies and science. They share the responsibility of planing instruction for more than one area of the curriculum. When they meet together, they usually talk about their students rather than a specific curriculum area.
Other Middle School components include advisor/advisee program, flexible scheduling, exploratory program, common team time, extra-curricular activities, reading period, quarterly classes and an eight-period day.
The outside area includes play fields, natural science area, tennis courts, bus loading area, and
parking space for bikes and car
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