Kamiakin Junior High School
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Kamiakin Junior High School is a middle school in Kirkland, Washington and is part of the Lake Washington School District. It was established in 1974, and accommodates 613 students as of October 2006. Many of its students filter into Juanita High School. It is located about 1.5 miles northeast from Totem Lake Mall.
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[edit] Awards
- Kamiakin has only one award-winning program, and that is the band. Taught by Mr. Brannman, it has won multitudes of praise from the community from their concerts and extraordinary efforts. Unfortunately, due to the snow storm during the last week of February, they were unable to go to Victoria.
- The class of 2011 gave the school their highest WASL scores ever, and students were awarded with a plaque that hangs in the trophy case near the entrance of the cafeteria.
[edit] Sports
Kamiakin won many sports titles in the late 70s to early 80s. The only recent titles they have acclaimed was the football title in 2004, badminton in 2006 and track titles for boys and girls track in 2006 and boys track in 2007 they have also won math olympiad quite a few years. The Kamiakin Cougars offer 7th grade basketball, badminton, boys tennis, softball,and most importantly football for first season sports. They offer girls basketball 7-9 and boys basketball 8-9 in the second quarter. In the third quarter they have wrestling and 8-9 volleyball. In the 4th quarter they offer girls tennis, baseball, 7th grade volleyball, and boys and girls track. The Kamiakin cougars compete against six other junior highschools in the lake washington school district. These schools are the Finn Hill Falcons (rivals also feed into Juanita),Kirkland Panthers, Evergreen Eagles , Redmond grizzlies, Rose Hill Royal Pride, and the Inglewood Knights.
[edit] Gifted Program
Kamiakin offers the Quest Gifted Program.
