Joyce Kilmer Middle School

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Joyce Kilmer Middle School

School type	Public school
Principal	Deborah Hernandez
Location	Vienna, Virginia
Enrollment	961
Homepage	Official Site

Joyce Kilmer Middle School is a school in the Fairfax County Public Schools System. It serves grades 7-8. It was named after the journalist and poet Joyce Kilmer.

1 Feeder school
2 Demographics
3 Test Scores
4 Electives
5 Teachers
6 GT Center Conversion Controversy
7 Teams

[edit] Feeder school

This school feeds into Madison High School, Oakton High School, and Marshall High School, Langley High School, and McLean High School.

Kilmer also has a GT program for students who have been determined to be "Gifted and Talented".

[edit] Demographics

Kilmer's student body in is 61% White, 20% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 5% Unspecified, 4% Black, and less than 1% Native American.

[edit] Test Scores

Kilmer is full accredited by the Virginia Department of Education. The following chart is for the 2005-2006 school year.

SOL Test	Percent Passing
Grade 7 English: Reading	93%
Grade 7 Math	70%
Grade 8 English: Reading	92%
Grade 8 Science	96%
Grade 8 English: Writing	98%
Grade 8 Math	90%

[edit] Electives

kilmer offers many electives for both 7th and 8th graders

[edit] Teachers

48% of teachers have a Bachelor's degree, 52% have a Master's degree, 0% have a Doctorate degree. There are 14 students per teacher. There is a 97% attendance rate.

[edit] GT Center Conversion Controversy

In 2006, Fairfax County Public Schools decided that many Gifted and Talented students from Kilmer would be moved to Luther Jackson Middle School due to overpopulation, which created a controversy among Vienna parents, concerned with transportation issues and split-feeder schools- e.g. that students would be split up from their classmates in elementary and middle school. This decision attracted media attention from The Washington Post, Fairfax Extra twice, as well as The Connection, and other local news.

[edit] Teams

There are 11 teams at Kilmer.

[edit] 7th Grade

Aces - This team has mixed Honors and regular classes
Aviators - This team has no Honors courses.
Comets - This team has all Honors GT courses with Algebra 1.
Explorers - This team has all Honors GT courses, but does not take Algebra 1.
Voyagers - This team has mixed Honors and regular classes.

[edit] 8th Grade

Navigators - this team had mix of regular classes and honors and Algebra 1
Roadrunners-This team has all Honors GT courses with some of the students taking honors Algebra and the rest taking honors geometry
Rockets - This team has all Honors GT courses with some of the students taking honors Algebra and the rest taking honors geometry