Thornton Middle School

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Thornton Middle School is an A5 middle school in an area called Katy near the city of Houston, Texas. It is part of the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, one of the largest growing districts in the state of Texas. It teaches 6th ,7th , and 8th grade. The school spirit colors are mostly blue and red. Their mascot is the Patriots. Thornton Middle School feeds into Cypress Springs High School, Langham Creek High School, and eventually Cypress Lakes High School in fall 2008. Thornton's name came from Donald O. Thornton, retired Cypress-Fairbanks ISD superintendent. He served the District for 28 years as a teacher, coach, associate superintendent, and superintendent. He and his wife, Dixie, were well-respected, dedicated employees who helped to shape the direction of the school district.

1 Goals/slogan's
2 Enrollment
3 Electives
4 Awards
5 TAKS Scores

[edit] Goals/slogan's

Thornton Middle School’s campus goals focus on closing the achievement gap by offering excellence in all core and elective subjects and by maintaining a safe and disciplined environment. In working to reach our goal we strive to follow the Portrait of a Cy-Fair Graduate working to create effective communicators, competent problem-solvers, self-directed learners, responsible citizens, and quality producers.

[edit] Enrollment

1702 as of 9-12-06

[edit] Electives

Art, Band, Orchestra, Choir, Theatre Arts, Communication Applications, Spanish I, Reading, Spanish II, Spanish for Native Speakers I or II-IIIK, French , French II, German I, Latin I, Skills for Living, Exploratory Home Economics Exploring Foods and Fabrics, Personal and Family Development, Technology Education I or II, Keyboarding, Introduction to Webmastering, Introduction to Programming, Advanced Academic Strategies, Yearbook.

[edit] Awards

Spotlight Teacher of the Year(2006): Amy Graham
Placed 2nd in the nation towards Speech/Debate:Raphael Akinsipe

[edit] TAKS Scores

TAKS Stands for Texas Assesment of Knowledge and Skills and is taken by Thornton and here is how they have done:

Reading	Math	Science	Social Studies	Writing/English
83%	63%	68%	78%	90%

Sources: Thornton Middle Home Page: Google Searches

	v • d • e Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District
High schools	Cy-Fair \| Cypress Creek \| Cypress Falls \| Cypress Lakes \| Cypress Ranch \| Cypress Ridge \| Cypress Springs \| Cypress Woods \| Jersey Village \| Langham Creek
Alternative high schools	Windfern
Middle schools	Aragon \| Cook \| Dean \| Kahla \| Labay \| Truitt \| Watkins \| Thornton