| Glenridge Middle School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Winter Park, Florida, United States | |
| Information | |
| Type | Public Middle School |
| Established | 1955 |
| School district | Orange County |
| Superintendent | Ronald Blocker |
| Principal | Heather Hilton |
| Enrollment | 1,400 |
| Color(s) | Green and gold |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Website | http://www.glenridge.ocps.net/ |
Glenridge Middle School (GMS) is a middle school located in the Baldwin Park area in Orlando, Florida and serves students from both Orlando and Winter Park. It is one of the four middle schools in Florida with an International Baccalaureate IB Middle Years Programme, or MYP (a precursor to the IB Diploma Programme available in WPHS). The school's mascot is the lion.
The school was founded in the mid-1950s and has a current student body of approximately 1,300. GMS is a feeder school for Winter Park High School, or WPHS.
Some of the Elementary schools that feed into Glenridge are Cheney, Aloma, Brookshire, Audubon , and many private schools.
Glenridge's main middle school rival (both academically and athletically) is Maitland Middle School, which also feeds into WPHS.
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Heather Hilton (former administrator at WPHS) is the principal, Kelly Maldonado and Jason Schultz are the assistant principals, and James Harper is the dean. Each grade has 3 "teams" with 4 teachers each for the 4 core classes. One of the 3 teams for each grade is the IB team, which includes only students in the IB program. As of 2010, GMS is on the plan to turn the whole school into an all IB school. But so far, the school only have two of the three teams for each grade are the IB team. It is noticeable that the former names of the IB teams are exactly the same names of the 3 NASA space shuttles, Discovery (6th), Endeavor (7th), and Challenger (8th). These names were dropped in 2010 upon the retirement of the space shuttle program.
The curriculum of a student at Glenridge Middle consists of four core academic classes: Math, Social Studies, Language Arts, and Science. Students can then choose an elective of their choice to fill a fifth class space. This elective can be P.E., Video production, band, orchestra, chorus, and art. Everyone in the IB classes must take a foreign language (French or Spanish).
The remaining sixth class is then either filled by the IB Exploratory Wheel, for IB students, which will offer the student a different class every nine weeks for that period (which are Spanish, Video Production, Physical Education, and Technology). If the student is not part of the IB program, however, he/she will be offered another elective class of his/her choice. As of 2007, there was an additional seventh period added which gave another elective to all students. Now for the 2010-2011 school year, students have eight class periods. They are divided into what is called a "block schedule". Classes 1-4 on Mondays and Thursdays, classes 5-8 on Tuesdays and Fridays, and all eight classes on Wednesdays.
Students who scored either a 1 or 2 on FCAT reading are required to take a Reading course in exchange for one elective.
There are 4 sports at Glenridge. They are soccer, basketball, volleyball, and track. You must get a physical to play any sport and you must also try out for the sport you want to play (except track, which everyone who wants to play it can participate). One sport is played each 9 weeks. The students are separated by gender and play against the same gender, except track, where some events are run with boys and girls, such as the mile.
| 1st 9 weeks | 2nd 9 weeks | 3rd 9 weeks | 4th 9 weeks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soccer | Volleyball | Basketball | Track |