Jonas Clarke Middle School
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Jonas Clarke Middle School is one of the two middle schools in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Clarke's principal is Steven Flynn, and its assistant principals are Amy Hawrylchak and Jonathan Wettstone. Clarke has over seven hundred students, with more than a hundred and fifty students in each grade, sixth, seventh, and eighth. In each grade, there are 3 teams. 6th grade: Voyager, Atlantis, and Quest. 7th grade: Adventurer, Endeavor, and Explorer. 8th grade: Apollo, Challenge, and Discovery
Clarke Middle School has three feeder elementary schools, Bridge Elementary School, Harrington Elementary School, and Bowman Elementary School, three K-5 schools in Lexington. Clarke itself, feeds into either Lexington High School, or Minuteman Regional High School, the vocational school in Lexington. Once in eighth grade, the students at Clarke, decide whether they want to go to Lexington High School, or the vocational school, Minuteman Regional.
Clarke also has a student-run newspaper, Clarkies Newspaper which is run by the students and a 6th grade teacher.
The School is named after Jonas Clarke, a local pastor who was present at the standoff at Lexington Green shortly before the shots that started the Revolutionary War.
