Canyon Middle School

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Canyon Middle School is a middle school in Castro Valley, California, USA. It is one of two middle schools in the Castro Valley Unified School District, the other being Creekside Middle School.

The enrollment is around 1,400 students in grades 6-8 and the Principal is Mark Croghan.[1] A notable 31% of the students are Asian.[2]

[edit] Notability

Canyon Middle School is a 'California Distinguished School'.[3]

The unsolved murder, in 1994 of Canyon student Jennifer Lin, was widely publicised.[4]

In 2007 there were two bomb threats[5] at the school. The story was highly exposed to the Bay Area.

In 2008, a student of Canyon Middle School won a national contest sponsored by Google to create a custom Google logo.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Castro Valley Unified School District
  2. ^ "Public School Review"
  3. ^ "School Accountability Report Card 2004-2005"
  4. ^ "Lin Murder Suspect, Long Time Focus", ABC7, 2006
  5. ^ Castro Valley School Reopens After Bomb Threat, CBS5, 2007
  6. ^ "Doodle 4 Google", ABC7, 2006

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