About Our School

Principal - E. Terry Styers

Building Leader - Mr. LaMarca

Middle School Grades

Our school is a middle school consisting of grades 6 through 8. We are located next to our feeding elementary school. Due to spatial demands, two classes of grade 4 and all of grade 5 is housed in our building. You will find information about grade 5 in the Strodes Mills Middle School web page, even though they are considered elementary. Grade 4, however, will be listed in the Strodes Mills Elementary site at www.mcsdk12.org/sme

Six Day Cycle

Our school functions on a six day cycle. (See "Schedules" for class breakdown.) Students attend classes according to the day of the cycle rather than the day of the week. The first day of school was Day 1, the second day was Day 2, etc. The days do not coincide with the days of the week. When a day of school is missed due to a vacation, inservice, or snow day, students continue with the cycle day in which they left off prior to the missed day. This allows more classes to be offered to students within the school year and helps with problems that arise from students missing classes that would normally fall on the same day of the week (Ex: missing Monday's after holiday.)

Elementary School

Our district contains nine elementary schools. Only one of those "feeds" into our middle school . This school is Strodes Mills Elementary.

High School

Our district contains 2 high schools - Indian Valley High School and Lewistown High School. Students from our school, Strodes Mills Middle School, and students from Lewistown Middle School attend Lewistown High School. Students from Indian Valley Middle School attend Indian Valley High School.

Mascot

Our school mascot is a panther. It is the same as that of Lewistown High School and Lewistown Middle School.