Collierville Middle School

Collierville Middle School is a public middle school (grades 6–8) located in Collierville, Tennessee, which operates under Collierville Schools. It was founded in 1973 in the Shelby County Schools and has since used four different campuses as one of the two public middle schools in the town of Collierville. [3]

Collierville Middle School
Address
580 Quinn Rd

Collierville
,
Tennessee 38017

USA
Coordinates35.0289°N 89.6608°W / 35.0289; -89.6608
Information
TypePublic
MottoYou Belong Here!
Founded1973
School districtShelby County Schools Collierville Schools
PrincipalAnita Swindle[1]
Teaching staff58.00 (FTE)[2]
Grades6–8
Enrollment889[2] (2018–19)
Campus typeSuburban
Color(s)Maroon and Black   
MascotDragon
NicknameCMS
Websitehttps://colliervillems.colliervilleschools.org/

History

Collierville Middle School was founded in 1973, originally teaching the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades before shifting campuses in 1976 and reducing its taught grades to sixth through eighth. During the 1982–83 school year, Collierville Middle School became one of the first educational institutions in the country to receive a Blue Ribbon School award from the United States Department of Education.[4] The school moved campuses again in 1995, transferring to the first campus of Collierville High School. It currently operates from its fourth campus on Quinn Road in southern Collierville.[3] It was administrated by Shelby County Schools until Memphis City Schools merged with Shelby County Schools, spurring the creation of Collierville Schools in February 2014.[5]

Academics

CLEP courses in United States history and the natural sciences are offered to 8th-grade students at the school.[6] Nonetheless, in 2019, the school was designated as requiring "support and improvement" after the Tennessee Department of Education reported that economically disadvantaged students struggle disproportionately at the middle school.[1]

Activities

Arts

Collierville Middle School has programs for the visual arts, STEM,[7] and theatre. In addition, it has a choir and an orchestra, as well as a band that plays at Collierville town events.[8][9]

Athletics

Collierville Middle School offers cheerleading, cross country, football, mountain biking, pom, hip-hop, girls' soccer, and volleyball sports programs in autumn;[10] basketball (with cheerleading), bowling, swimming, trap, and wrestling in winter;[11] and baseball, boys' soccer, softball, and track and field in the spring.[12]

Extracurriculars

Extracurricular activities offered at Collierville Middle School include clubs for art, literature, Best Buddies, Biblical studies, drama, environmentalism, video gaming, Harry Potter, engineering, Lego, mathematics, robotics, student government, and yearbooking; there are also divisions of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Junior Beta Club.[13]

  1. "TNReady 2019: Five suburban districts have Reward schools". The Daily Memphian. 15 August 2019. Archived from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  2. "Collierville Middle School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  3. "History". colliervillems.colliervilleschools.org. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  4. Corcoran, Thomas B. (1986). The Search for Successful Secondary Schools. Research for Better Schools.
  5. "Memphis and Shelby County merge 2011". March 15, 2011.
  6. "CLEP Information". colliervillems.colliervilleschools.org. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  7. "Collierville Education Foundation to fund middle school STEM lab". The Commercial Appeal. 12 December 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  8. "Fine Arts and CTE". colliervillems.colliervilleschools.org. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  9. "'We want to honor them': Collierville's Veterans Celebration planned at Town Square". The Commercial Appeal. 6 November 2019. Archived from the original on 6 November 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  10. "Fall Sports". colliervillems.colliervilleschools.org. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  11. "Winter Sports". colliervillems.colliervilleschools.org. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  12. "Spring Sports". colliervillems.colliervilleschools.org. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  13. "Clubs and Activities". colliervillems.colliervilleschools.org. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
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