Colina Middle School

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Colina Middle School is a public school located in Thousands Oaks, California, United States, part of the Conejo Valley Unified School District. The motto is "Work Hard, Make Friends, and Have Fun" and the school mascot is the Colina Cougar.

Colina services grades 6-8. Classes include English, social science, mathematics, science, Spanish, French, English as a second language, physical education, exploratory electives, computing, woodshop, band, jazz band, beginning and intermediate band, orchestra, choir, SURE orchestra, SURE, ASB (associated student body), a lunch-time student congress, lunch-time sports, and a before-school leadership class supervised by the principal.

Before-school bees include spelling, history, geography, science, music, mathematics, and vocabulary. With the exception of spelling, all bees are multi-media PowerPoint presentations hosted and created by school counselor Sam Kane.

Events and fund-raisers include a magazine drive, a turkey-trot running race of qualifying students, a 24-hour club, a 5 km run, a rabbit run race for qualifying students, COTY (class of the year) dress-up days, and "We the People".

Colina prides itself on trumping rival schools in all sports competitions. When Colina is defeated in competition, Waters says "It just doesn't matter. With all of our successes, a loss just doesn't matter."

Colina is a National Blue Ribbon school, a California Top 100 school, and consistency receives 10/10 on API scores.

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