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.

Michael Waters is principal of the school, the assistant principle is Mr. Frank, Phalba Thomas is dean, Sam Kane, Moira Fagan-Simpson, and Jeanne Boe are counselors.

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, economics, exploratory electives, art, computing, woodshop, drama, jazz band, beginning and intermediate band, orchestra, and choir. Other activities include 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.

Colina Middle School is the primary feeder to Westlake High School (California)

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, disco dancing, 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 students learn through stating their views about different topics relating to the Constitution.

Colina's unofficial rival schools include Los Cerritos Middle School and Redwood Middle School.