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."

The school mascot is the Colina Cougar.

Colina Middle School teaches students in grades 6-8. Classes include English, social science, mathematics, science and English as a second language. Electives include Spanish, French, physical education, exploratory electives, art, computing, woodshop, drama, band, jazz band, beginning and intermediate band, orchestra, and choir. Other activities include SURE (Silent Uninterrupted Reading for Enjoyment), ASB (associated student body), PTSA (Parent Teacher Student Association, of which students can be involved in), 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, Spanish, language, mathematics, and vocabulary. With the exception of spelling and geography, 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", a program that helps eight-grade studants learn through stating their views about different topics relating to the Constitution.

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

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