Washington Irving Middle School
38°46′57.81″N 77°10′47.33″W / 38.7827250°N 77.1798139°W / 38.7827250; -77.1798139
| SOL Test | Percent Passing |
|---|---|
| Grade 7 English: Reading | 92% |
| Grade 7 Math | 62% |
| Grade 8 English: Reading | 90% |
| Grade 8 Science | 96% |
| Grade 8 English: Writing | 97% |
| Grade 8 Math | 89% |
Washington Irving Middle School (Cluster: 6; Grades: 7-8, website) is a public school located in Springfield. It feeds into West Springfield High School. Some elementary schools that feed into Washington Irving Middle School are Cardinal Forest, Hunt Valley, Keene Mill, Orange Hunt, and Rolling Valley, Sangster, and West Springfield.
Irving is divided into eight teams, four seventh grade (Yellow Afterchockz, Green Hornets, Orange Tigers, and Blue Hartbreakers) and four eighth grade (Purple Pirahnas, Black- The Dark Side, White- Avalanche, and Red Team). All the members on each team have the same teachers for their core classes: Science, English, Math, and History/Civics. Irving's student body of 1208 is 62% White, 18% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% Unspecified, and less than 1% Native American.
54% of teachers have a Bachelor's degree, 44% have a Master's degree, 3% have a Doctorate degree. There are 15 students per teacher. There is a 95% attendance rate.
The school has a chorus and four bands or orchestras: Beginning Band/Cadet, Concert 1, Concert 2, and Symphonic orchestra.
Read more about this topic: Robert Frost Middle School (Fairfax County, Virginia)
Famous quotes containing the words washington irving, washington, irving, middle and/or school:
“A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless—for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.”
—Washington Irving (1783–1859)
“... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)
“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.”
—Washington Irving (1783–1859)
“The worst and best are both inclined
To snap like vixens at the truth.
But, O, beware the middle mind
That purrs and never shows a tooth!”
—Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)
“I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)