Earle B. Wood Middle School is a public school for students in grades 6, 7, and 8, located in Rockville, Maryland.
Wood Middle School's students generally live in Rockville or Aspen Hill.
Students who graduate from Lucy V. Barnsley, Flower Valley, Maryvale, Meadow Hall, or Rock Creek Valley elementary schools may generally attend Wood Middle School. Graduates of Wood Middle School may generally attend Rockville High School.
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Academic
According to Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers assessments of the students, 56 percent of eighth-grade students met or exceed expectations in reading, and 45 percent of eighth graders met or exceeded expectations in mathematics. Of Newport Mill Middle School's students, 13 percent are enrolled in special education.
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Extracurricular activities
Athletic teams at Wood Middle School include basketball, cross country, soccer, and softball.
Clubs at Wood Middle School include Book Club; Sign Language Tuesdays; Cue, Sign, and Service; ELO Academic Support; First Lego League-Robotics Club; Flying Aces Club; Green Team; Gymnastics Intramurals; Homework Hangout; Intramural Sports; Jazz Band; Makerspace Club; Pit Orchestra; Poms; Wood Writers; and Yearbook Club.
Student body
During the 2015-2016 school year, Wood Middle School had 332 sixth graders, 326 seventh graders, and 312 eighth graders. The school's capacity is 952, while its total enrollment is 970.
Of Wood Middle School's students, 38 percent are Hispanic/Latino, 32 percent are White, 13 percent are Black/African American, 11 percent are Asian American, and 5 percent are multiracial.
Faculty
Traci L. Townsend serves as principal, and Matthew Freiman and Roy Liburd are assistant principals.
Wood Middle School has 87 teachers and 40 support staff. Of its teachers, 92 percent have at least five years of teaching experience, and 44 percent have at least fifteen years of teaching experience.
Awards and accomplishments
In 2009, Gerald "Jerry" Bush III, a teacher at Wood Middle School, received the Middle School Teacher Excellence Award from the Technology Education Association of Maryland. Bush was teaching a class called "Applied Robotics Engineering-Computer Aided Drafting and Design". The following year, Wood and his students visited the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division to test submarines that they had created.
Eighth-grader Jack Conger competed in the Potomac Valley Swimming U-14 Junior Olympic Championships in 2009. Conger set a national record in 200-yard backstroke in his age group. Conger came in first place in ten different competitions, and he set seven different meet records.
Wood Middle School's students came in second place in a national Battle of the Books competition held at Gallaudet University in May 2014. As part of the competition, students read assigned books and then discussed the books with their teammates. Points are scored by answering questions about the books' characters, events, and themes. The competition encourages reading by middle schools who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Facility
Earle B. Wood Middle School is a 152,588-square-foot (14,176 m2) building, with a campus of 8.5 acres (3 ha). The building has a capacity of 952.
Seventeen school bus routes serve the students.
History
The school was built in 1965.
Wood Middle School received a $16.2-million renovation in 2001. The renovation modernized the inside of the school and expanding the building from 120,000 square feet (11,000 m2) to 140,000 square feet (13,000 m2). While the renovation work was underway, students and teachers had classes at the Tilden Center in North Bethesda for two school years.
In 2007, Wood Middle School was one of the first three middle schools in Montgomery County to begin a new, more rigorous curriculum that included interactive technology-based teaching and additional guidance counselors.
In 2009, M. Nathaniel Barnes, Liberia's ambassador to the United States, visited Wood Middle School's Model United Nations class to talk about Liberia, diplomacy, and the role of ambassadors.
in 2010, 150 of Wood Middle School's students participated in a youth baseball clinic with the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park. The students participated in running drills, batting practice, and pitching practice. The youth baseball clinic was part of Live Positively: Get the Ball Rolling, an initiative to promote active, healthy lifestyles for children in the Washington metropolitan area.
Gary Temple, a retired scientist from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, has taught genetics and virology to students at Wood Middle School since 2011. Temple cut windows into eggshells to allow students to see developing chicken embryos. Temple discussed the Zika virus and the Ebola virus. During a genetics lab, Temple inserted a jellyfish's gene into a single-cell organism to turn the organism from white to green.
Namesake
The school was named after Earle B. Wood, superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools from 1906 to 1915. While Wood was in office, six elementary schools were built, and Montgomery County's number of high schools doubled from two to four.
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