Parras Middle School

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Parras Middle School
Location
Information
School district Redondo Beach Unified
Principal Ms. Tahajian
Type Public
Grades 6-8

Nick G. Parras Middle School is a middle school in Redondo Beach, California, USA and is part of the Redondo Beach Unified School District. It has around 860 students on roll in grades 6-8.[1]

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[edit] Awards and recognition

Parras Middle School was recognized in the 1992-93 school year as a Blue Ribbon School and as such a model of both excellence and equity[2] and is considered to hold the highest honor that an American school can achieve.[3][4]

Faculty member Janet Barker has been named the 2006 Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year, selected from nearly 80,000 teachers countywide.[5][6] Barker was also recognized as the 2006 California Woman of the Year for District 28.[7]

[edit] Notable features

  • In 2005-06 8th Grade students wrote the commercial publication Middle School Journal: Stepping Into the Minds of Real Eighth Graders.[8]
  • Parras students raised over $2,500 in two-weeks in October 2005 for 'Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles' for its hurricane relief efforts.[9]
  • This was the only public school to be selected by Beach City Lodge for one of their endowments.[10]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Nick G. Parras Middle School", Great Schools
  2. ^ "Blue Ribbon Schools Program", US Department of Education
  3. ^ CIBA cited as one of the best by Education Department, Journal Inquirer, November 16, 2006. "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10 percent of their state's testing scores over several years or show significant gains in student achievement. It is considered the highest honor a school can achieve."
  4. ^ The Washington Post. September 29, 2005 "For their accomplishments, all three schools this month earned the status of Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the U.S. Education Department can bestow upon a school."
  5. ^ Sixteen Los Angeles County Teachers of the Year Honored, KABC, September 29, 2006, accessed April 11, 2007.
  6. ^ L.A. County Teachers Of The Year Honored Friday, KCAL, September 29, 2006, accessed April 11, 2007.
  7. ^ "Awards and Accolades", National Writing Project, January 2007.
  8. ^ Middle School Journal: Stepping Into the Minds of Real Eighth Graders, Lulu, 2006
  9. ^ "Redondo Beach Students Raise Over $2,500 in Two Weeks to Build Homes for Hurricane Victims", Habitat for Humanity
  10. ^ "In the Community", Beach Cities Lodge No. 753 F&AM

In the year 2007, the student leadership raised over $3000 dollars to go to the Richtone Family Center in preparation for their Pier to Pier Walk in Hermosa Beach.

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