Don Mills Middle School | |
Address | |
17 The Donway East Toronto, Ontario, M3C 1X6, Canada |
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Information | |
School board | Toronto District School Board |
Principal | Douglas Loosemore |
Vice Principal | Dima Nijmeh-Mantia |
School type | Public Middle School |
Grades | 6 - 8 |
Language | English |
Area | Toronto |
Motto | Never Settle for Less than Your Best |
Mascot | Dolphin |
Team name | Don Mills Dolphins aka DMMS |
Colours | Blue and Silver |
Enrolment | 418 (Spring 2007) |
Founded | n/a |
Homepage | http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/donmillsmiddle/ |
Don Mills Middle School (DMMS) is a middle school in Toronto, Ontario. It is located near the intersection Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue. The school was known as Don Mills Junior High until 1986.
DMMS shares its building with Don Mills Collegiate Institute, a high school, although they have different street addresses. The two schools share a library and all of its resources (books, videos and computers), but no other rooms.
There happen to be many educational programs and co-curricular activities offered at Don Mills Middle School. Those programs include band, yearbook club, scrapbooking, tutoring (being a tutor or having one) and many others which students take part in.
At the middle school, teachers generously donate their own time to coaching sports teams. The sports include boy's and girls soccer, football, volleyball, cross country, track and field, swimming, basketball, badmintion, tennis.
The CyberARTS program is open to students from outside school boundaries and promotes the integration of literacy, numeracy and the arts. The students can apply for grade seven and eight CyberART classes, but are not guaranteed to be pick out of the many applicants.
Don Mills Middle School has an honor and merit roll assembly each term, to recognize the students who achieved average grades over 75.5%, which is a potential Merit roll, and over 79.5%, which is a potential Honor Roll. A final Principal's Honor Roll, which is an average over 89%, which is quite hard to achieve.