Walter Reed Middle School is located in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Originally called North Hollywood Junior High School, it was later renamed in honor of U.S. Army Major Walter Reed.
The school is a part of Local District 2 of the Los Angeles Unified School District and feeds into North Hollywood High School. Several areas, including parts of North Hollywood, Valley Village, Studio City, and Woodbridge Park, are zoned to Reed.
The school offers a variety of special academic programs: the IHP (Individualized Honors Program), the School for Advanced Studies (SAS), the Humanities Academy, the Technology Academy, the Culinary Academy, the Environmental Studies Academy, and the International Academy. IHP was called by Time magazine "perhaps the most successful junior-high curriculum in the U.S." Founded in 1971 by William Fitz-Gibbon, the IHP's purpose is to serve the needs of highly-gifted children. IHP students are usually one or two levels above average grade math classes. Pre- Algebra and Algebra are taught in 6th grade, Algebra and Geometry are taught in 7th grade, and Geometry and Algebra 2 are taught in 8th grade. Walter Reed also provides an AP Physics course for 8th graders.
Walter Reed has a very active parent body organized under its PTSA.
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