Overland Trail Middle School is one of eight middle schools operated in the Blue Valley School District, located in Overland Park, Kansas. The school mascot is the Falcon. It is the mother school of Overland Trail Elementary, Valley Park Elementary, and formerly Tomahawk Ridge. The school feeds into Blue Valley North High School with Leawood Middle School.
Overland Trail Middle School offers speech, drama, art, culinary, life decisions, sewing, chorus, thousands of suspensions band, strings, computer, and technology education as its exploratory classes. The middle school teaches 3 grades, 6th, 7th, and 8th. In the 2007 year, each grade averaged near 185 students. The school has a collection of exquisite honors, including the 2007 Governor's award. It has also one the subsequent awards for 2008 and 2009. The Average attendance rate is 95%. Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Hansen are the current principals.
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