| Harvest Park Middle School | |
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| 4900 Valley Avenue Pleasanton, CA 94566 United States |
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| Type | Middle School |
| Motto | Home of the Patriots |
| School district | Pleasanton Unified School District |
| Superintendent | Parvin Ahmadi |
| Principal | Ken Rocha |
| Vice Principal | Kathleen Rief |
| Grades | 6–8 |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Red, White, and Blue |
| Mascot | Ernie and Ellie the Eagle |
| Team name | Patriots |
| Information | (925) 426-4444 |
| Website | School web site |
Harvest Park Middle School is a public middle school school in Pleasanton, California, USA, a city east of San Francisco. Harvest Park is one of three middle schools in the Pleasanton Unified School District, which includes Pleasanton Middle School and Hart Middle School. The school has been named a California Distinguished School, a National School of Character, and a National Blue Ribbon School.
The school's original mascot was the Crusader. This later changed to the Warrior, and in 2003, became the Patriot.[1]
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Harvest Park's competitive math students have won multiple awards. At mathleague's first middle school competition of the year at Stanford in October, a team of four Harvest Park students placed first, defeating several other teams for the first time. A team of six Harvest Park Middle School students placed second in the MathNotations international high school geometry contest. Many Harvest Park students ranked highly in the 2009 Fall-Startup Event hosted by National Assessment & Testing. In 2010, 1 student got 2nd place at MathCounts states and proceeded to get 5th at MathCounts Nationals. In the year 2009-2010, Harvest Park had 5 AIME qualifiers, with 1 USAJMO qualifier. In the year 2010-2011, Harvest Park had 4 AIME qualifiers.
Harvest Park is the only middle school in the area with an ultimate frisbee team. It is led by science instructor Kevin O'Dea, every Friday during the school year. It is open to all students.
As of 2011[update], Harvest Park's principal and vice principal are Ken Rocha and Kathleen Rief
Wheel is an elective class for Harvest Park. An elective is chosen for sixth graders. In sixth grade wheel, the classes are Quest, Drama, Consumer and Family Studies (old name: Home Economics), Computers, World Languages (Spanish and French), and Art. The seventh and eighth graders are able to choose their own elective. The electives include Full-time Drama, Spanish One Part One, French One Part One, and Wheel, which consists of Computers, Consumer and Family Studies, Art, and Drama.
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