Academics
Roughly a third of the teachers at Issaquah Middle have 1 to 5 years of teaching experience with 71 percent of the teachers holding Master's and Ph.D degrees. The school offers a "highly capable" program called Humanities Plus which is a block class containing history and English curriculum for which 174 students are enrolled (as of 2008); an ESL Program for which 23 students are enrolled (as of 2008); and a special education program for which 80 students are enrolled (as of 2008). Issaquah Middle also offers high school credit foreign language classes and high school credit] mathematics classes. Issaquah has also introduced Smartboards to a majority of the classrooms as well as LCD projectors and document cameras.
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