Takoma Park Middle School

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Takoma Park Middle School
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Established	1940^[1]
School type	Public middle school
Grades	6 to 8
Principal	Renay Johnson
Location	Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Students	984 (as of 2005)
Mascot	Blue Devil
District	MCPS
Website	TPMS

Takoma Park Middle School is a middle school (grades 6-8) in Silver Spring in unincorporated Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, and part of the Montgomery County Public Schools district. As of 2005, its enrollment was 984.

Most of the city of Takoma Park is assigned to this school.

1 Campus
2 Academics
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Campus

TPMS is currently located at 7611 Piney Branch Road, Takoma Park, MD 20910. Its current building supersedes the former Takoma Park Middle School building, built March 15, 1940. The building is composed of three floors, with two gymnasiums and a cafeteria. There is a parking lot and a bus lane directly in front of the building. In the back, there are four basketball courts and two tennis courts. A field consisting of two baseball/softball fields and a soccer field is surrounded by a track approximately one quarter mile in length.

[edit] Academics

Takoma Park Middle School is a middle school with a Math/Science/Computer Science magnet program integrated in to the school. Students in the magnet program take special classes in math, science, and computer science. Computer science topics include TrueBASIC and HTML. In 2005, four students from Takoma achieved perfect scores on the AMC 8, tying with First Colony Middle School for the most perfect scores from a single school. Takoma Park Middle School also participates in MathCounts annually. Their school team has come in first place at the state level competition since MathCounts was founded in 1983.