Elwood Middle School (most commonly referred to residents as EMS) is a middle school in the Elwood School District in Huntington, NY.
The school was originally named Elwood Junior High School.
The Elwood Middle School takes students from 6th-8th grade. It recognizes the special learning requirements of adolescent students by offering an educationally balanced program which meets academic, social, and emotional needs. There are students from Huntington, East Northport, and Greenlawn. It was named a School of Excellence award for the 2001 - 2002 school year. Its innovative programs, featuring cooperative learning and problem solving activities, were factors in its selection for the New York State Regents Challenge for Excellence program.
The Elwood Middle School has a full range of extra-curricular activities, including sports, a science and math olympiad club, a theater club, a computer club, etc.
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“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“I’m not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experience as that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)